Taking to Twitter, Thompson lays out a case where Ocasio-Cortez’s boyfriend was paid $6,000 by a PAC owned by Saikat Chakrabarti, now her chief of staff, at a time “when her campaign was running out of money.”

The PAC is affiliated with Justice Democrats, a collaboration between Chakrabarti and Cenk Uygur of The Young Turks, Thompson noted.

Luke Thompson @ltthompso

 · Feb 20, 2019

A rich guy used a PAC to pay @AOC's boyfriend $6,000 when her campaign was running out of money. After AOC won, she gave that rich guy a job in her office. Follow me on a journey.https://medium.com/@ltthompso/the-congresswoman-loves-the-swamp-d33296ec251e …

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Her Wealthy Chief of Staff used a PAC to Pay Her Boyfriend

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Luke Thompson @ltthompso

Last week, @AOC and her Chief of Staff @saikatc (the rich guy in question) freaked out on me when I pointed out it looked like she'd hired her boyfriend. I did some digging in the FEC. Turns out Saikat has "hired" her boyfriend, before...just not to do any actual work.

 

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According to Thompson, money flowed both ways, from Ocasio-Cortez’s campaign to Brand New Congress LLC, which ran parallel to the PAC, and back to the boyfriend as a “marketing consultant.”

Thompson noted that Roberts “doesn’t work in marketing.”

 

Luke Thompson @ltthompso

 · Feb 20, 2019

Replying to @ltthompso

.@AOC paid Brand New Congress LLC, which @saikatc owns, for strategic consulting. @BrandNew535, the PAC Saikat ran in parallel to his LLC, turned around and paid Riley Roberts - the boyfriend - the same amount as its sole "marketing consultant". How swampy.

Luke Thompson @ltthompso

The payments to Roberts are the largest payments made by @BrandNew535 to any person or group other than Brand New Congress LLC. Oh, and Roberts doesn't work in marketing. pic.twitter.com/XN8AYl0l7J

 

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Thompson also highlighted the suspicious timing of the transactions.

 

Luke Thompson @ltthompso

 · Feb 20, 2019

Replying to @ltthompso

The payments to Roberts are the largest payments made by @BrandNew535 to any person or group other than Brand New Congress LLC. Oh, and Roberts doesn't work in marketing.

Luke Thompson @ltthompso

Plus, the timing looks bad.

.@BrandNew535 paid Riley Roberts $3,000 on August 9th, 2017.@AOC's campaign paid Brand New Congress LLC $6,191.32 on August 27th.

A month later @BrandNew535 then paid Riley Roberts another $3,000. pic.twitter.com/Oym09gLGZy

 

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