"And she has also nailed it as a woman in a male-dominated field", said Christian Tamte, one of six Democrats who spoke on a range of issues with CNN's Alisyn Camerota on "New Day" this week.
The companies owned by Saikat Chakrabarti appear to have been established for the sole objective of hiding how the political donations were used, the Washington Examiner reported.
"Representative Ocasio-Cortez has been quite vocal in condemning so-called dark money, but her own campaign went to great lengths to avoid the sunlight of disclosure".
He helped found both Brand New Congress PAC and Justice Democrats, with the goal of bringing new and progressive members like Ocasio-Cortez, a self-described Democratic socialist, to Congress.
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"In a normal situation, if all you saw was a PAC that disbursed hundreds of thousands of dollars to an affiliated entity to pay the salaries of people who were really working for the PAC, that looks [like] a PAC that takes in money to engage in political activity but is actually enriching its owners", Adav Noti, a former Federal Election Commission lawyer who is now chief of staff of the Campaign Legal Center, told the Post. 'I can't even begin to disentangle that. "Let them try to do something". "Get ready for her because she's coming", she added. Justice Democrats, another PAC launched by Chakrabarti in 2017, also spent a significant portion of its money paying Brand New Congress LLC.
Commenting on a tweet about Rep. Steve Scalise suggesting that Omar should not be getting intelligence briefings, Ocasio-Cortez inquired why, "if we're so concerned about implied tropes", no concern was seemingly exhibited over 26 Democrats voting "for a GOP amendment to expand ICE powers rooted in the racist + false trope that Latino immigrants are more risky than U.S. born citizens".
Large financial transfers from PACs to private companies are technically legal, however the NLPC claims that Ocasio-Cortez and Chakrabarti attempted to orchestrate this "extensive off-the-books operation" in order to dodge Congressionally-mandated contribution reporting requirements. "This is the most diverse, it is in many ways the youngest, the most integrated Congress we've ever had".
Chakrabarti, 33, is a Harvard-educated tech millionaire.
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