Federal Election Commission probing financial discrepancies at AOC political action committee

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

The Federal Election Commission is examining financial discrepancies at a political action committee where Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez served on the board after an outside watchdog group raised questions about the group’s spending activities.

Justice Democrats PAC, a committee where Ocasio-Cortez served on the board until last summer, said in financial reports that it helped pay off candidate debts that did not appear to exist, according to a May 30 letter from the FEC cited by the Washington Free Beacon.


The FEC asked the PAC to explain the discrepancies, request refunds from the campaigns that allegedly received the payments, and update its financial statements, noting that the commission “may take further legal action regarding this impermissible activity.”

Justice Democrat PAC’s financial report for April 1, 2018, to June 30, 2018, “discloses one or more contributions to federal candidates for the retirement of debts incurred by the 2018 Primary election campaign,” according to the FEC letter.

“[H]owever, it appears that the recipient committee(s) had insufficient debts to warrant such a contribution,” said the commission. “Please note that a committee may only designate contributions to retire a candidate's debts if those debts exist.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/federal-election-commission-probing-financial-discrepancies-at-aoc-political-action-committee/ar-AACucYa?li=BBnb7Kz

I don't know if there's any substance to this or if it's just a political hit job.

[Me.]

1. Rut Roh

[underpants]

3. This is a big deal in RW world

They’ve been on this for a while.

[SouthernProgressive]

2. Give them time to clear it up.

The Justice Democrats were/are full of people working in areas outside of their expertise. Really a poorly run organization. These things will happen.

[Dennis Donovan]

4. The "outside" watchdog group is The National Legal and Policy Center

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Legal_and_Policy_Center

The National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC) is a right-leaning 501(c)(3) non-profit group that monitors and reports on the ethics of public officials, supporters of liberal causes, and labor unions in the United States. The Center files complaints with government agencies, legally challenges what they view as abuse and corruption, and publishes reports. The NLPC is described as conservative in nature. The NLPC's current chairman is Peter Flaherty.

The NLPC was founded in 1991 following the release of the Senate Ethics Committee report into the Keating Five.

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