The FEC discovered that two political action committees — Brand New Congress and Justice Democrats — “did not properly disclose the purpose of the disbursements” to similarly named shell companies set up by AOC’s former chief of staff Chaikat Sakrabarti throughout her first run for Congress in 2018.
Despite the discoveries, the FEC’s six-member panel voted to dismiss a government watchdog complaint against the Congresswoman’s campaign last month, the filings released Thursday reveal.
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Last week, the National Legal and Policy Center, which sent its 36-page complaint to the FEC in March, 2019, filed a lawsuit against the federal agency in Washington DC federal court, denouncing the investigations panel — made up of three Democrats and three Republicans — for not providing a basis for its dismissal of the complaint. Three Democrats and one Republican voted to dismiss the complaint, filings show.
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“The FEC has gone after a whole host of people whose violations are dwarfed by the scale of this scheme,” announced Paul Kamenar, NLPC counsel. “It appears to be not prosecutorial discretion, but prosecutorial favoritism.”
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The NLPC complaint alleged that AOC campaign treasurer Frank Llewellyn and Chakrabarti, among others, funneled over $1 million in political donations into two companies controlled by Sakrabarti.
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Those cash transfers from two political action committees to Brand New Congress and Justice Democrats may have broken the $5,000 contribution limit to federal candidates, the original complaint claimed.
The FEC waited for more than 30 days to publicly disclose their investigative findings, according to the NLPC, perhaps in an effort to avoid a legal challenge, a spokesman for the NLPC announced.
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“It was highly irregular for the FEC to release its statement of reasons after the deadline for us to file suit,” stated Tom Anderson, director of the NLPC’s Government Integrity Project, adding that the group did not wait for the agency’s findings before filing its legal challenge.
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A spokeswoman for AOC did not immediately return a quest for comment Saturday.
Meanwhile, FOX Business asked Ocasio-Cortez what the consequences for the Democratic Party could be if President Biden does not deliver on promises on issues such as student loans and climate change.
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"I think we have to ask ourselves: What, realistically, are we accomplishing as a team and as a collective between our families? And I think that the president has an extraordinary amount of options at his disposal that he has not yet exercised, and his ability to do that is going to be critical," Ocasio-Cortez stated.