Ocasio Cortez Chief Of Staff Faces Federal Investigation Over Potential Campaign Finance Violations
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🗓️ 4 August 2019
⏱️ 94 minutes
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Summary
Ocasio Cortez Ex-Chief Of Staff Faces Federal Investigation After Abrupt Resignation. Saikat Chakrabarti is reportedly facing a federal probe having to do with the unorthodox way he conducted his campaigning businesses. Complaints had been filed over the way his private entities were handling cash, operating as LLC's instead of PAC's.
Some worry that this method was used to conceal campaign contributions that exceeded the federal maximum allowed and served to obfuscate what otherwise should be publicly available campaign information. Though proponents of AOC and her staff feel it was just a way to campaign on behalf of many new progressive candidates at once.
Saikat, Ocasio Cortez, and others were part of Justice Democrats and Brand New Congress. Organizations designed to elect new progressive and far left Democrats as a direct challenge to establishment Democrats.
Recently Saikat Chakrabarti resigned amid controversy over his tweets and infighting between AOC, her staff, and House Democrats. The Democratic Party has tried to reel in the far left congresswomen while Trump are exploited the tensions for political gain.
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| 0:00.0 | We have a major update to yesterday's story on Ocasio-Cortez's staff. |
| 0:04.0 | Yesterday reported, |
| 0:05.1 | Sci-Ket-Chach-Rabardi was leaving as well as Corbin Trent. |
| 0:08.5 | Sci-Ket would be going to a nonprofit to focus on climate change issues in the Green New Deal, |
| 0:13.2 | and Corbin Trent would be joining Ocasio-Cortez's re-election campaign. |
| 0:16.6 | So not really losing him, but kind of, although Sci-Kets is seemingly out. |
| 0:20.9 | Many people said this may be the result of the controversy, |
| 0:24.7 | where Sci-Ket was tweeting at Democrats and insinuated they were racist, |
| 0:28.7 | and this caused a massive internal fight with Democrats, looked bad for everybody. |
| 0:33.2 | But now we have another update, and perhaps this is the reason for his departure from the New |
| 0:38.0 | York Post. Fed's probing AOC's chief of staff, Sci-Ket-Chach-Rabardi, after sudden resignation. |
| 0:44.4 | A while ago, there were some complaints about how they had organized their brand new Congress |
| 0:50.0 | LLC and how they were funneling money in and out of their campaigns. Some people thought, |
| 0:55.5 | this was an attempt to obscure how they were spending money on a federal election. |
| 1:00.0 | Now we can see there are real ramifications. So I want to read through this story, |
| 1:03.8 | but I also have some more news pertaining to the Democratic Socialists of America. |
| 1:08.9 | They're not necessarily the same thing, but I want to go through this as the lead, |
| 1:12.2 | our main update on the story from yesterday, but I want to talk about the current state |
| 1:15.2 | of Socialism in the Democratic Party, and there is a viral video showing a Democratic |
| 1:20.0 | Socialists meeting, which many people are likening to an episode of South Park in how |
| 1:24.8 | absurd and insane it is. Wait till you see this video, but let's get started with this story |
| 1:30.4 | about Sci-Ket-Chach-Rabardi. Before we do, make sure you go to TimKast.com slash, |
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