Alexandria Occasional-Cortex facing House ethics investigation

Good day all. Alexandria Occasional-Cortex, aka AOC, is one of the dumber members of the House of Representatives. She is a classic drama queen and loves to parade around with a “Holier than thou” attitude. She also doesn’t think that the rules apply to her, and she is now facing an ethics investigation.

AOC is, of course, the Meme that keeps on Meme’ing and there are thousands of images of her showing what a buffoon she truly is. However, she is also none to bright about things, like economics and has done a huge amount of damage to the people she allegedly represents. One of these incidents was Gala at the Met where she showed up in a gown with the words “Tax the Rich” on it. However, it seems she didn’t actually buy or rent that gown, among other things. Here are the details from Fox News:

The House Office of Congressional Ethics found “substantial reason to believe” that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., improperly accepted gifts in the form of tickets during her appearance at the 2021 Met Gala. A report from the Office of Congressional Ethics states that Ocasio-Cortez was accused of accepting “impermissible gifts associated with her attendance at the Met Gala in 2021” which may have violated House rules, standards of conduct and federal law.

I don’t think that AOC was taking bribes, I think she saw this as a chance to “Stick it” to “The Rich,” along with the chance to attend a high end gala that the “Little People” would be blocked from attending. However, it looks like she didn’t bother to check to see if she could accept the tickets and the dress.

After the office’s review, it recommended that the House Committee on Ethics review the allegation further because “there is substantial reason to believe that she accepted impermissible gifts associated with her attendance at the Met Gala in 2021.”

According to the report from the Office of Congressional Ethics, Ocasio-Cortez “received a series of goods and services which she did not pay for” associated with her attendance at the Met Gala until the review was opened.

“In 2021, Rep. Ocasio-Cortez was invited to and attended the Met Gala with Mr. Roberts. As part of her attendance, Rep. Ocasio-Cortez was provided with a couture dress, handbag, shoes, and jewelry. She also received hair, makeup, transportation, and ready-room services. Riley Roberts received a bowtie and shoes in advance of the event,” the report states. “While Rep. Ocasio-Cortez appears to have now paid for the rental value of the attire she wore to the Met Gala and for the goods and services she and her partner received in connection with this September 2021 event, payment for these goods and services did not occur until after the OCE contacted her in connection with this review.”

And I can tell you, she was not happy. Alexandria Occasional-Cortex is always crying about how poor she is while driving around in her $100K Tesla and wearing $3000 outfits. Of course, I would expect no less from someone who got a degree in economics. The one thing that sort can’t seem to do is handle money correctly.

However, the ethics office says that Ocasio-Cortez may have not paid for “several thousands of dollars’ worth of goods and services provided to her.”

The congresswoman told the ethics office that a determination was made in advance of the Met Gala, in conjunction with her team as well as counsel, “that she would be personally paying for the attire and services she received in connection with the Met Gala.”

In response to the ethics office review, Ocasio-Cortez’s counsel said that the matter isn’t a violation of House rules.

“Though no Ethics violation has been found, the Office of Congressional Ethics (“OCE”) did identify that there were delays in paying vendors for costs associated with the Congresswoman’s attendance at the Met Gala. The Congresswoman finds these delays unacceptable, and she has taken several steps to ensure nothing of this nature will ever happen again,” David Mitrani, council for Ocasio-Cortez, said. 

“However, while regrettable, this matter definitively does not rise to the level of a violation of House Rules or of federal law. Even after OCE’s exhaustive review of the Congresswoman’s personal communications, there is no evidence that she ever intended to avoid these expenses. To the contrary, the record clearly shows that the Congresswoman always understood that she had to pay for these expenses personally — and she even worked with the undersigned counsel prior to the event to ensure that she complied with all applicable ethics rules,” he added.

Well, this tells me one of two things. Either everyone there is lying or AOC’s lawyers are flat out incompetent. In any case, regardless of what AOC’s office thinks, it does look like she might have broken a few rules. She is in good company of course. It looks like others from her “Squad” are also having serious issues with following the laws and rules of the House of Representatives.

Will this be enough to get her expelled? I doubt it. I suspect she will plead stupidity, fire her lawyer and pay a fine of some sort, and promise to not do it again. After all, she is a college graduate and learned a thing or two about mixing drinks and dodging blame. Sill, it will be yet another embarrassing situation for the next generation of corrupt Democrats. She needs pay attention to Maxine Waters when it comes to graft.

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