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Armstrong and Getty Show. So while he's talking collusion, inclusion, inclusion, I think in oversight we should be talking about taxes, taxis, taxes, and his bank account, his bank account, his bank account. There you go, AOC. While while Mueller's talking about collusion, collusion, inclusion, we should be talking taxes, taxes, taxes, and uh so the declusion things just over. That's that's, that's, that's done. It's onto the A. But AOC is one of the

people leading the charge. Lovely well, he's hot. Campaign finance crimes are a big deal. She better wake up and smell the charges. There is an accusation that her chief of staff illegally moved almost a million dollars in campaign contributions in a weird off. The book's way and a lot of goodman is Uh writing about it for The Washington Examiner alt a and investigative political reporter. Welcome, how are you? I'm great? How are you doing well? Good?

Thank you very much for spending a couple of minutes with us today, So it tell us what he's being alleged. So yesterday, the National legaland Policy Center, which is a government watch dog group, they failed an SEC complaint against Comngresswoman Okaza Cortes and her chief of staff should I cut Chakra Party, uh, And the complaint alleged that the group campaign finance laws by failing to properly disclosed payment.

And this was an arranged meant that you know. As part of this arrangement, Chackoberti appears to have funneled over a million dollars from two federal packs that he set up into two private companies that he controlled. And he packs said that the money was being used for campaign work, But there is really no way of knowing how it was actually spent because corporations don't have to disclose what they're spending money on. On like packs. So he formed

a couple of packs. They raised a bunch of money, and then they paid almost a million dollars to a private company that he happened on. Yes, they raised about three point three million dollars during this time period. UM. Mainly small donors. UM. These are you know, progressive activist types who gave twenty dollars, thirty dollars, you know, a small small money announced UM. And that was a lot of money to raise about a million dollars of that money was then sent to to corporation that her chief

is well now now she's staff. He was not her chief of staff at the time. UM. But that chapter party controlled and we don't really know what happened that money. It was. It was disclosed in the SEC filings as payments for strategic consulting. UM. But if they're paying enough Stormy Daniels to any chance of that, everybody's paying off Stormy Daniels. UM. So that was a key detail. You just to mention there that Uh, he wasn't chief of staff when this happened for AOC, but he is now. Yes,

a problem for him. That sounds like that's a problem for him. It's a small problem for her. And that turns out I just hired a person that's a crook,

but he didn't do that to benefit her. Then if it happened before he was even well, it's it's interesting and certainly we don't know how much you know, she was aware of this, but one of these packs, um, she was actually a board number of It was actually just the two of them that was okay, do Cortez and Chaker Party were the two board members of the Justice Democrats attack and that was well you know this,

well this is happening. So it's again unclear what she knew, but this is something that the SEC can take a look at. And then early in the campaign when they didn't have much money her her boyfriend was on the payroll and got paid thousands of dollars for it's not

clear what um, and they'll look into that. But so I I read your piece in this excellent I was clicking around and Fox News covered this and they quoted a handful of people, Um, some of the more conservative leaning are saying it's it's clearly illegal and a problem.

But then they asked other people like the former FEC Associate General Council Um and he said it was a total mystery why you would establish an LLC rather than simply create a normal venture like a consulting business and do it on the books, and um, yeah, I mean that's what people will do all the time in Washington.

You know. You start a consulting firm and you work for campaigns and they pay you, and that's that's how it works, right, So it's a little odd to do it where you're starting a pack and then raising money through that and then starting a company and paying that company for consultant. Has there any chance that any of this fits into the explanation Trump like that she had no belief she was going to win. I mean, never never even crossed her mind that she was gonna win.

So well, I did, the money was being handled, wasn't being paid attention to? Yeah, I mean I do think that it did kind of as a surprise to some people. But um, you know, I think that we'll just have to see whence the SEC starts looking into this, because honestly, we just don't know. And that's what that's what was I think. So, you know, surprising to campaign finance attorneys who I spoke to about this, and people who have worked at the SEC because they're like, this is just

so odd. It's just a really weird arrangement, and we have it's totally opaque, and you know, so she has made dark money and her opposition to dark money at big issues. So it's also there's also that, you know, I mean, this is the ultimate you know, dark money machine. When you're using a corporation, um, you know, putting campaign funds into a corporation, so we can't see what you're

spending that right. I only have one more question for you, So what sort of stuff do you usually usually investigate? We're looking for a new person that we go to regularly from the Washington Examiner, and we're thinking you might be the person. What sort of stuff you usually writing about? Yeah? I do? I do. I do politics? Um, yeah, money, money in politics, issues and the presidential campaigns as well. What's your favorite sports team? We'd like to get to

know you a little bit. What's your favorite sports team you're putting? I don't have one. What's your favorite TV? Go go Hillary Clinton on US? I don't know. I don't know what my my favorite TV show? I guess I really like The Haunting at Hill House. I know, that came out a little while ago, and that's like that that was I that acceptable answer. Seawan, our TV guy says that's unacceptable. Well done a lot of I think that was one of the best in a while.

Well at his number four thirty on my list of things, I absolutely must watch a lot of Goodman's an investigative reporter for the Washington Examiner. Really great to talk to you. Thank you, all right, we'll talk again, so listen. I wanted to get to this quote. Former FEC Associate General Council for Policy Adav note Um, who is not a partisan guy, said it was a total mystery to him, my Chakra party had established an LLC seemingly to take money from the pack rather than simply create a normal

venture like a consulting business. Certainly it's possible to use an LC or other kind of and then he goes through a bunch of different ways you could do it. He said, what's so weird about this situation is that the pack that disturbed dispersed so much of its money to want entity that was so clearly be affiliated with the pack. Usually that's a sign of what's known as a scam pack um. He but then he says, on the other hand, it might be innocent because this would

be such an obvious way to to commit it. Nobody would be dumb enough to do it then to get to the court I really wanted to give you. On the other hand, their explanations don't make a lot of sense on their face. I read their explanation multiple times and I still don't understand it. If you started wanted to start a business to provide services to campaigns, many of those are organized as ll season. He's all your services, so he says, he just he can't even understand what

they're trying to say they were doing. So who knows this Docter Pardi guy is a Silicon Valley gazillionaire, super progressive financier of progressive campaigns. He ought to have some idea what he's doing. He is not a babe in the woods. When you're ready to ride Metro, we want you to know we're ready for you. Here are just a few of the people at Metro to tell you how they're doing our part to keep writers say like we're cleaning like never before. Half feel a great clean.

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