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Line 69: − − ===Ethics violations and abuse of power=== − Before taking office, Ocasio-Cortez was embroiled in allegations of violating House Ethics Rules and federal law. Ocasio-Cortez threatened a private citizen and political opponent with [[subpoena]]s and investigation. The House Rules Manual states, {{quotebox|“Members…are not to take or withhold any official action on the basis of the campaign contributions or support of the involved individuals, or their partisan affiliation. Members and staff are likewise prohibited from threatening punitive action on the basis of such considerations.”<ref>[https://ethics.house.gov/sites/ethics.house.gov/files/documents/2008_House_Ethics_Manual.pdf Page 150]</ref>}} What's more, Ocasio-Cortez may have violated 42 [[U.S. Code]] § 1983 – Civil action for deprivation of rights: {{quotebox|"Every person who, under color of any [[statute]], ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage, of any State or Territory or the [[District of Columbia]], subjects, or causes to be subjected, any [[citizen]] of the United States or other person within the jurisdiction thereof to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the [[Constitution]] and [[law]]s, shall be liable to the party injured in an action at law, suit in equity, or other proper proceeding for redress, except that in any action brought against a judicial officer for an act or omission taken in such officer’s judicial capacity, injunctive relief shall not be granted unless a declaratory decree was violated or declaratory relief was unavailable. For the purposes of this section, any Act of Congress applicable exclusively to the District of Columbia shall be considered to be a statute of the District of Columbia."<br>(R.S. § 1979; Pub. L. 96–170, § 1, Dec. 29, 1979, 93 Stat. 1284; Pub. L. 104–317, title III, § 309(c), Oct. 19, 1996, 110 Stat. 3853.)<ref>https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/42/1983</ref>}} − − Ocasio-Cortez made protecting the working class and the poor her top priority. A week after being sworn in ("inaugurated" in her words), it was reported that her campaign had been fined for failure to pay state-mandated workers compensation coverage for campaign workers. She paid a $1500 fine, which of course was less than the cost of complying with the law.<ref>https://www.syracuse.com/politics/2019/01/ny-fines-ocasio-cortezs-campaign-for-failing-to-carry-workers-comp-coverage.html Even though a fine can equal the cost of back payments, it does not include interest and penalties or the labor cost of accounting and legal fees to insure compliance.</ref> − − The Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust (FACT) filed a complaint with the Office of Congressional Ethics over Ocasio-Cortez' use of taxpayer dollars to raise campaign funds.<ref> C. White, [https://dailycaller.com/2019/03/06/aoc-twitter-violations/ Scoop: Ethics Group To File House Complaint On Ocasio-Cortez’s Twitter Use], DC, Mar 6, 2019</ref> − − ====Justice Democrats==== − [[File:The face of socialism.jpg|right|300px|thumb|AOC: The Face of Socialism.<ref>https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/news/local-news/this-is-the-face-of-socialism-elizabeth-hengs-new-pac-ad-targets-ocasio-cortez/</ref>]] − Ocasio-Cortez and her [[chief of staff]] Saikat Chakrabarti obtained majority control of [[Justice Democrats|Justice Democrats PAC]] in December 2017. Justice Democrats PAC raised more than $1.8 million before her June 2018 primary. Ocasio-Cortez never reported to the [[Federal Election Commission]] that she and Chakrabarti, who served as her campaign chair, controlled the PAC while it paid money to her 2018 campaign committee. − − Justice Democrats stated on its website from December 2017 until late February 2019 that Ocasio-Cortez and Chakrabarti held “legal control” of Justice Democrats PAC,<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20171225015602/https://www.justicedemocrats.com/about Justice Democrats: Democrats that Represent the People] (2017)</ref> and the two still serve on the three-member board of Justice Democrats. − − Ocasio-Cortez's campaign and Justice Democrats raised a combined $4.6 million during the [[2018 midterm election]] cycle, − − [[Armenian genocide|Armenian holocaust]] denier [[Cenk Uygur]] was forced from the board of Justice Democrats for what Chakrabarti called “extremely disturbing [[sexist]] and [[racist]] statements" in December 2017,<ref>https://twitter.com/justicedems/status/944356205476106240/photo/1</ref><ref>https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/justice-democrats-ousts-cenk-uygur_us_5a3eb4d1e4b025f99e178181</ref> followed by Kyle Kulinski of the ''Young Turks'' who quit the same month. Justice Democrats then reported that Ocasio-Cortez and Chakrabarti were “governors” of the organization in a document submitted to the Washington, D.C., Department of Consumer & Regulatory Affairs on March 28, 2018. A third listed governor was the PAC's treasurer, Nasim Thompson.<ref>https://dailycaller.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Justice-Democrats-two-year-report-March-28-2018.jpg</ref> − − ====Brand New Congress==== − A [[Federal Election Commission]] complaint was filed alleging money laundering campaign donations to her boyfriend. Early on, her website was a redirect page for the group [[Brand New Congress]], archives in the [[Wayback Machine]] show.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20170828110100/https://ocasio2018.com/ Brand New Congress home page via ocasio2018 .com]</ref> − − Brand New Congress paid Ocasio-Cortez's live-in boyfriend money in excess of campaign contribution limits.<ref>https://www.dailywire.com/news/44095/ocasio-cortez-hit-fec-complaint-alleging-she-ryan-saavedra</ref> Ocasio-Cortez had her boyfriend on her Congressional payroll staff after she took office. She later denied he was staff, but nonetheless had granted unfettered access to her office IT system to unauthorized persons.<ref>https://www.foxnews.com/politics/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-faces-questions-after-her-boyfriend-gets-congressional-email-account</ref> − − Ocasio-Cortez' boyfriend, Riley Roberts, worked in home improvements and has no record or knowledge of working on a campaign. As Ocasio-Cortez' live-in boyfriend, the circular flow of cash from donors to Brand New Congress PAC, to Brand New Congress LLC, to Riley Roberts - a cohabitator with Ocasio-Cortez - appears to be a conversion of campaign finances for personal use and gain.<ref>https://pjmedia.com/trending/ocasio-cortez-boyfriend-troubles-reveal-the-corruption-at-the-heart-of-her-campaign/</ref> She appears to have emolumated herself with progressive donor's cash. − − ====Fundraising==== − Ocasio-Cortez is a case study in what is wrong with campaign finance laws. Cortez sits in a safe district, meaning she was virtually elected in the primary. The [[liberal media]] turned her into a fundraising magnet - for money she didn't need in a district she ran in virtually unopposed. − − Campaign "war chests," as they are called, are not to be used for the candidate's personal enrichment. Some candidates raise more money than they need, others have difficulty attracting donations even in their own districts, let alone from outside [[lobbyist]]s in [[Washington]]. Under existing regulations, candidates and members are free to donate to each other. Congresspeople become laundry machines for disguised donors. Instead of a member taking bribes from outside interests, they are "owned" by a fellow member, where any pretense of equality between the people's elected representatives is a charade. At 29 years old, Ocasio-Cortez was already barnstorming across the country raising nearly $900,000 and helping other Democrats get elected,<ref>https://m.newstimes.com/news/article/Democratic-socialists-are-conquering-the-left-13146775.php</ref> for which they are indebted to her, before she was even elected.<ref>https://www.politico.com/story/2019/01/16/justice-democrats-primary-challenges-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-1106911</ref> − − A Daily Caller News Foundation analysis of FEC records found only 10 people who live in her district were recorded making donations to her reelection campaign in 2019.<ref>https://dailycaller.com/2019/08/13/ocasio-cortez-district-fec/</ref> − − ====Saikat Chakrabarti==== − [[Saikat Chakrabarti]] is Rep. Ocasio-Cortez's chief of staff and managed her 2018 campaign. Chakrabarti regularly can be seen posing in a T-shirt emblazoned with the image of a [[Nazi]] collaborator from [[India]] who fought with the Germans against [[colonialism]] in the [[British Empire]]. − − Chakrabarti and Ocasio-Cortez held majority control of Justice Democrats up to February 2019. Justice Democrats appears to be a [[money-laundering]] operation for illegal campaign donations. − − Additionally, Chakrabarti has been accused of funneling $1 million to two companies he controlled in a complaint filed by the National Legal and Policy Center with the FEC. According to the Brand New Congress website, the PAC would build a "unified campaign" infrastructure including fundraising, organizing, rallies, and advertising progressive congressional candidates across the country could "plug into," saving the individual campaigns time and money. − − In 2016 and 2017, Chakrabarti's PACs raised about $3.3 million for the project, primarily from small donors. During this time, the committees transferred over $1 million to two shell companies controlled by Chakrabarti with names similar to one of the PACs, Brand New Campaign LLC and Brand New Congress LLC, according to federal election filings. − − A few weeks after starting the Brand New Congress PAC, Chakrabarti formed one of the companies, Brand New Campaign LLC, in Delaware, using a registered agent service and mailbox-only address. − − Over the next seven months, as small-dollar political donations poured into the PAC from progressives across the country, the committee transferred over $200,000, 82 percent of the contributions, to the company Brand New Campaign LLC. The payments were for "strategic consulting," according to federal election filings. They were sent to an apartment address listed for Chakrabarti in the Greenwich Village area of Manhattan. − − In 2017, Brand New Congress PAC transferred another $240,000 to Brand New Congress LLC, also for "strategic consulting." Another PAC co-founded by Chakrabarti that year, Justice Democrats, transferred an additional $605,000 to Brand New Congress LLC in 2017. − − Brand New Congress LLC does not appear to be registered in any state, according to state government records available online.<ref>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/ocasio-cortezs-chief-of-staff-ran-1m-slush-fund-by-diverting-campaign-cash-to-his-own-companies</ref> − − Chakrabarti's ideas are basically to replicate a European-style party system in America, eliminate [[grassroots]] politics, and dole out cash from a central authority to candidates who meet an ideological litmus test - pro-[[infanticide]], [[2nd Amendment]] repeal, a communist single-payer healthcare system, [[transgenderism]], print money for a guaranteed income, [[inflation]], eliminate factory farming and promote [[veganism]], etc. − − Chakrabarti accused fellow Democrats and moderates of being racists, tweeting "They certainly seem hell-bent to do to black and brown people today what the old Southern Democrats did in the 40s.”<ref>https://twitter.com/mattdizwhitlock/status/1144387728831909889</ref> − − Two weeks after former Obama Chief of Staff and Chicago Mayor [[Rahm Emanuel]] referred to Chakrabarti as "a snot nosed punk" for posting on Twitter racist comments about Rep.[[Sharice Davids]], the first [[Native American]] woman elected to Congress, Chakrabarti resigned under a cloud of federal investigations.<ref>https://lauraloomer.us/2019/08/04/ocasio-cortezs-chief-of-staff-faces-federal-investigation-amid-sudden-resignation/</ref> AOC's press staff announced he resigned to work with the [[fascist]] organization [[New Consensus]].<ref>https://theintercept.com/2019/08/02/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-saikat-chakrabarti-corbin-trent/</ref> − − ====Living wage rule==== − Ocasio-Cortez capped her office salaries at $80,000 which disguises her chief of staff and senior employees outside income and protects them from complying public transparency laws that require disclosure of all sources of income, gifts, and stock trading activity. Called a “living wage” rule, she pays staff members a minimum of $52,000 a year ($1000 per week) and a maximum of $80,000 a year ($1500 per week). − − Under federal law, congressional employees who earn more than $126,000 a year — which includes most chiefs of staff — must submit public financial disclosure forms that detail outside income they earn, stock investments, debt, and gifts or paid trips that they are given by outside sources.<ref>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/aoc-living-wage-rules-allow-her-staff-to-dodge-financial-disclosure-laws</ref> − − ====[[Dark money]] scam==== − While [[Bernie Sanders]] was still competing in the Democratic primaries during the Spring of 2016, Brand New Congress was set up to continue the nationwide fundraising effort from small donors beyond the 2016 election. The stated goal was to collect money at a central collection point, recruit candidates nationwide who adhere to a socialist/communist litmus test and provide the resources necessary to conduct congressional campaigns. The recruits would concentrate on miming Marxist talking points and be relieved of the all legal, financial, promotional, and public relations details that grassroots candidates traditionally had to master.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvGtVu8gmtg</ref> − − These small money donations collected by the non-profit Brand New Congress organization, and later Justice Democrats, were then paid to private for-profit Limited Liability Companies owned by Saikat Chakrabarti as "strategic consulting fees." Being private entities, Chakrabarti's private companies are not subject to reporting requirements to the FEC on how the money is spent. In one such incident, Ocasio-Cortez's live-in boyfriend was paid and later given a staff position in her Congressional office. − − The districts targeted were held by incumbent Democrats who lacked the [[cultural Marxist]] ideological purity Democratic Socialists demand. The main goal of Justice Democrats and Brand New Congress is an extremist and [[far left]] take over of the Democratic party.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1h5iv6sECGU</ref>
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===Racism===
===Racism===
A Black man approached Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez indicating he’d like his picture taken with her. She was all smiles and eager to oblige when he claimed to have driven an hour to see her, and posed for a picture with him. When the Black man informed her that he was a journalist with ''[[Project Veritas]]''” the words barely escaped his lips when she jumped back and her handlers swooped in.<ref>https://twitter.com/Cernovich/status/1420570005393924103</ref>
A Black man approached Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez indicating he’d like his picture taken with her. She was all smiles and eager to oblige when he claimed to have driven an hour to see her, and posed for a picture with him. When the Black man informed her that he was a journalist with ''[[Project Veritas]]''” the words barely escaped his lips when she jumped back and her handlers swooped in.<ref>https://twitter.com/Cernovich/status/1420570005393924103</ref>
==117th Congress==
==117th Congress==