So now Sandy the Bartender, aka Ocasio-Cortez is speaking like Bill and Ted? She’s calling the latest campaign finance complaint against her and her campaign manager “bogus.”
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., told Fox News Wednesday that new claims of campaign finance violations by her and her campaign manager were “bogus.”
According to a complaint filed earlier Wednesday with the Federal Election Commission (FEC), Ocasio-Cortez and her then-campaign manager Saikat Chakrabarti created a “shadowy web” of political action committees (PACs) allowing them to raise more money than they otherwise could have mustered.
“I mean, it’s conservative interest groups just filing bogus proposals,” Ocasio-Cortez said while heading to a meeting of the House Financial Services Committee.
The complaint also alleges that Chakrabarti, now Ocasio-Cortez’s chief of staff, established a limited liability company (LLC) that offered Ocasio-Cortez and other Democratic candidates political consulting services at below-market rates, something the complaints says is in violation of FEC rules. At the same time, the complaint says, Chakrabarti served as Ocasio-Cortez’s campaign manager, sat on the board of the Justice Democrats PAC and co-founded the Brand New Congress PAC.