Ocasio-Cortez Accused Of MULTIPLE Ethics Violations, Paying Boyfriend

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🗓️ 23 February 2019

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Ocasio-Cortez Accused Of MAJOR Ethics Violation, Paying Boyfriend. Ocasio-Cortez's boyfriend was granted an official house email and people began to question if she hired her boyfriend. She denied this.But now questions are arising around payments her boyfriend Riley Roberts received while presumably living in Arizona. The payments came from the PAC that was supporting AOC and shortly after getting paid it is alleged that her boyfriend moved in with her in NYC, indirectly benefiting her.The far left candidate has denied any wrong doing and called this all lies and rumors. That may be the case but at any rate this does look like more DC swampy behavior. The criticism partly stems from the idea that the democratic socialist would oppose these types of behaviors. Support the show (http://timcast.com/donate) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	There's been an ongoing ethics scandal with Alexander Ocasio-Gretez after it was discovered
0:04.2	she got her boyfriend a house email address.
0:07.0	Many people claim that only staffers can get these email addresses and she pushed back
0:10.8	saying, no, it's just for calendar access.
0:14.1	But following this, another story is emerging, that a pack that was supporting Cortez went
0:19.4	to pay her boyfriend for two months of work a total of $6,000.
0:23.0	And the reason that's significant is that political action committees can only contribute
0:26.7	$5,000 per year to a candidate.
0:29.1	The accusation is that this pack paid her boyfriend $6,000 that indirectly benefited
0:34.2	Cortez more than she was allowed to actually take in.
0:37.2	The story is ridiculously complicated, but I don't think there's anything necessarily
0:42.0	unethical or illegal.
0:43.6	I think people might just be waking up to the swamp.
0:47.2	And that's actually some of the criticism here.
0:49.2	Not that she did anything wrong or illegal, but that politics in our country is a swamp
0:55.0	of nepotism and paying your buddies and using multiple organizations for multiple reasons
1:00.0	because of all of these legal issues and FEC rules.
1:03.7	People end up forming different companies and political action committees and money gets
1:07.6	pushed around in ridiculous ways.
1:09.8	And it's just a swamp, it really is.
1:11.9	So today, let's take a look at some of this criticism and try at least the best of my
1:16.1	abilities to break down what's actually going on here and also look at some of the criticism
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