Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is unofficially the Speaker of the House now. She’s supplanted Botox Pelosi as “the boss” according to her own words on Twitter. Everyone knows Botox Pelosi has basically mentally checked out of the speakership anymore. Now it seems Ocasio-Cortez’s communications director Corbin Trent simultaneously collected salary from campaign and Justice Democrats PAC. The FEC doesn’t appear interested in looking into this though.
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s spokesperson collected nearly $20,000 in overlapping salary payments from the New York Democrat’s campaign committee and the Justice Democrats political action committee over a two-month span last year, filings to the Federal Election Commission show.
Corbin Trent, Ocasio-Cortez’s communications director in her Washington, D.C. office, was a leader of the Justice Democrats, the far-left group behind the freshman Democrat’s sharp political rise and surprise upset victory over seasoned Democratic representative Joseph Crowley.
As Trent was acting as a spokesperson for Ocasio-Cortez’s campaign last year, he was receiving a salary from the Justice Democrats PAC. Between September 9, 2017 and October 15, 2018, $73,000 in salary disbursements were paid to Trent from the group’s PAC.
Trent began collecting payments from Ocasio-Cortez’s campaign in August 2018 while he was still being compensated from the Justice Democrats PAC.
From August 15 to October 15, Trent was paid $12,293 in salaries and wages from the Justice Democrats PAC while simultaneously collecting $7,310 from Ocasio-Cortez’s campaign payroll, FEC filings show. The payments from Justice Democrats to Trent stopped on October 15. From that point, Trent was given an additional $7,805 from Ocasio-Cortez’s campaign, $855 of which was a payroll bonus.