“A consensus is probably coalescing around the idea that the underlying activity was weird — and hard to understand why they did it — but probably not unlawful,” says an attorney with the Campaign Legal Center.
A top aide to influential freshman New York Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has drawn attention this week for some money moves involving his political action committees.
A limited liability company owned by aide Saikat Chakrabarti, who is now Ocasio-Cortez’s chief of staff, received more than $1 million from two PACs that he co-founded, according to federal campaign finance documents detailing spending from 2016 and 2017. But Noti, who worked as an FEC attorney for a decade, said the real issue has been whether the PACs were making large payments to a connected entity in order to hide something.
The FEC could end up tightening its guidance to say that PACs need to provide more details about what their affiliated companies do with disbursements, according to the Campaign Legal Center attorney. “You could imagine this as pretty low-hanging fruit for a new crop of commissioners. This exact story shows how the laxity in these rules doesn’t benefit anybody,” he said.
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