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   From: felcher.adam.schiff@sacbee.com   
      
   Pretend you’re a freshman lawmaker who perpetually rails against   
   dark money -- but your chief of staff has funneled $1 million-   
   plus in political donations to two of his own companies, Brand   
   New Congress LLC and Brand New Campaign LLC.   
      
   That’s the hypocritical pickle Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez   
   finds herself in.   
      
   At a House hearing last month, AOC made a big show of “a   
   lighting-round game” to wax indignant about what’s legal under   
   the campaign laws. Yet she’s left arguing that the moves by her   
   then-campaign manager and now chief of staff, millionaire Saikat   
   Chakrabarti, were legal (however smelly).   
      
   It may not be legal, mind you: The watchdogs at the National   
   Legal and Policy Center charge that Chakrabarti skirted   
   reporting requirements and violated the $5,000 limit on   
   donations from federal PACs to candidates.   
      
   “These are not minor technical violations. We are talking about   
   real money here,” said NLPC’s Tom Anderson. “In all my years of   
   studying FEC reports, I’ve never seen a more ambitious operation   
   to circumvent reporting requirements.”   
      
   https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/new-york-post-alexandria-ocasio-   
   cortezs-dark-money-hypocrisy   
      
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