In a report released Friday, the committee said that Ocasio-Cortez “proactively took steps to comply” with House rules, including using personal funds to rent apparel that would typically be gifted or loaned to Met Gala attendees.
But the report states that, “despite Representative Ocasio-Cortez’s significant attempts, the Committee found that she failed to fully comply with the Gift Rule by impermissibly accepting a gift of free admission to the 2021 Met Gala for her partner and by failing to pay full fair market value for some of the items worn to the event.”
The ethics panel said it did not find evidence that Ocasio-Cortez “intentionally underpaid” for costs related to the event, and that “in many instances,” she had relied on a campaign staffer to handle discussions of payment and the advice of her counsel to determine the amounts.
. . . The ethics committee also released a separate report related to Rep. Mike Kelly, a Pennsylvania Republican, and allegations that his wife may have bought stock in a steel company based on confidential or nonpublic information he learned in his role as a congressman.
The committee said that it reviewed allegations referred by the Office of Congressional Conduct and “did not find evidence that he knowingly or intentionally caused his spouse to trade based on insider information.”
But the report said that the panel “did not receive full cooperation from Mrs. Kelly and was therefore unable to determine whether her stock purchase was improper.”
The report concluded by saying that “Representative Kelly should ensure that he and Mrs. Kelly divest of all shares of Cleveland-Cliffs before taking any further official action relating to the company.”
This some bull shit right here.
What, did she accept a jumbo jet from the Saudis?
Exactly, was it more than the jumbo jet? No? Then when Trump gets punished. You can punish AOC for her bullshit.
Sounds like they are flagging her mostly for getting discounts on her clothes for the gala despite taking efforts to do it the right way. Those discounts though went through her staff who she relied on to correctly handle the expenses. So her crime was trusting her staff to relay the costs and make sure that they were fair market price. At the very least, without further evidence that there was intentional or knowing favor taken specifically by her, that is not a violation of ethics on her part. Maybe her staffer was negligent in determining fair price, or maybe they knowingly accepted or solicited discounts for their boss, but that isn’t AOC’s fault even if that is the case. Sounds like maybe they also got her partner in for free, but given how dubious the other concern is, I want to hear more about how that happened. Either way, this is as minor of a concern for me as it comes.
Or insider information to trade stocks on?
Or create a shit coin?
Or tank the stock market so his buddies could buy cheap stock and then say “J/K on tariffs”
Fascism going after its political enemies.
Wake me up when she’s selling shitcoins and golden bibles or whatever the fuck.
This is a political hit job, nothing more
So instead of just denying it, she’s actually going to try and rectify her mistake?
If it were a Republikkklan, she’d be through half a dozen lies and misdirections by now
In a report released Friday, the committee said that Ocasio-Cortez “proactively took steps to comply” with House rules, including using personal funds to rent apparel that would typically be gifted or loaned to Met Gala attendees.
If you don’t take the bribe, the dirty ones can’t trust you…
LOLZ, go fuck yourself with this obvious bullshit.
AOC…
“proactively took steps to comply” with House rules, including using personal funds to rent apparel that would typically be gifted or loaned to Met Gala attendees.
The GOP-led panel even called those steps “significant attempts,” and
said it did not find evidence that Ocasio-Cortez “intentionally underpaid” for costs related to the event, and that “in many instances,” she had relied on a campaign staffer to handle discussions of payment and the advice of her counsel to determine the amounts.
Emphasis mine. Sounds like she tried to comply, made a mistake, and should be writing a couple of checks to make this right. Get back to me if she refuses.
Meanwhile, the GOP-led panel
“did not receive full cooperation from [GOP Representative Mike Kelly’s wife] Mrs. Kelly and was therefore unable to determine whether her stock purchase was improper.”
Also, Trump’s name is in the Epstein files and the GOP Speaker literally shut down the government rather than release them, so as the Sesame Street song goes, “one of these things is not like the other, one of these things just doesn’t belong.”
What a perfect example of someone ‘not’ trying to cheat the system being held to a ridiculously higher bar than those who are so used to cheating that they do it in their sleep.
Basically, cheat at everything and when you get called out on it, do something worse so the ‘evidence’ and questions immediately become trivial because there’s something far worse to address. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat.
Don’t worry, if you think there is a limit where ‘how can i do something worse and still get away with it?’… Apparently there isn’t.
Matt Gaetz first
Yeah, we should definitely investigate who pays for his dresses
And all the other types of gifts he uses to bribe young girls.
I’d first like an investigation for security breaches he did years ago.
Cool. Now do… fucking everyone else. Get the Judicary and Executive branches in the mix while you are at it.
I don’t care if it’s a hypocritical attack or a distraction from Epstein. It’s still bullshit to break ethics rules.
Also how do you have a staffer helping you with paying for things and you still mess up and accept a free ticket for your partner? A ticket to the place you are going to? What a dumb thing to do.
