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'''Saikat Chakrabarti''' is Rep. [[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez]] [[chief of staff]] and managed her 2018 campaign. 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.
'''Saikat Chakrabarti''' is Rep. [[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez]] [[chief of staff]] and managed her 2018 campaign. 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.
==Justice Democrats==
Ocasio-Cortez and Chakrabarti obtained majority control of [[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</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. [[Brand New Congress]], a Soros front that helped her get elected. 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 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>
==FEC complaint==
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 [[Federal Elections Commission]]. 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.
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 [[Federal Elections Commission]]. 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.