Uncovered: PAC Made Suspicious Payments to AOC’s Boyfriend

Writer Luke Thompson found overlooked information last week that Rep. Alexander Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) set up her boyfriend with an official house.gov email address, implying he could be “drawing a salary on the taxpayer’s dime.”

Now, the tenacious investigator is back with damning information regarding the democratic socialist – who many consider a threat to the established order. If proven true, it says far more about Ocasio-Cortez embracing the swamp than fighting it. (Bizpac Review)
 

AOC and boyfriend Riley Roberts, photographed by Annie Leibovitz, Vogue, November 2018 pic.twitter.com/1UnxSjY7No

— Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) February 15, 2019

Taking to Twitter, Thompson lays out a case where Ocasio-Cortez’s boyfriend was paid $6,000 by a PAC owned by Saikat Chakrabarti, now her chief of staff, at a time “when her campaign was running out of money.”

The PAC is affiliated with Justice Democrats, a collaboration between Chakrabarti and Cenk Uygur of The Young Turks, Thompson noted.

Last week, @AOC and her Chief of Staff @saikatc (the rich guy in question) freaked out on me when I pointed out it looked like she’d hired her boyfriend. I did some digging in the FEC. Turns out Saikat has “hired” her boyfriend, before…just not to do any actual work.

— Luke Thompson (@ltthompso) February 20, 2019

According to Thompson, money flowed both ways, from Ocasio-Cortez’s campaign to Brand New Congress LLC, which ran parallel to the PAC, and back to the boyfriend as a “marketing consultant.”

Thompson noted that Roberts “doesn’t work in marketing.”

The payments to Roberts are the largest payments made by @BrandNew535 to any person or group other than Brand New Congress LLC. Oh, and Roberts doesn’t work in marketing. pic.twitter.com/XN8AYl0l7J

— Luke Thompson (@ltthompso) February 20, 2019

Thompson also highlighted the suspicious timing of the transactions.
 

Plus, the timing looks bad.

.@BrandNew535 paid Riley Roberts $3,000 on August 9th, 2017.@AOC‘s campaign paid Brand New Congress LLC $6,191.32 on August 27th.

A month later @BrandNew535 then paid Riley Roberts another $3,000. pic.twitter.com/Oym09gLGZy

— Luke Thompson (@ltthompso) February 20, 2019