By Dailymail.com Reporter
Published: 00:18 GMT, 4 March 2019 | Updated: 00:23 GMT, 4 March 2019
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Watchdog groups have questioned whether congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's chief of staff skirted campaign finance laws.
Saikat Chakrabarti, 33, founded and ran the Tennessee-based PAC Justice Democrats, which spearheaded Ocasio-Cortez's run, prior to joining the freshman New York Democrat's Congressional staff.
According to Federal Election Commission filings, Ocasio-Cortez's campaign paid Justice Democrats a total of $41,108.59 for 'campaign services' and 'strategic consulting' in 2017 and 2018.
Now a report in the New York Post questions whether a PAC can also be a vendor, and points out that PACs can only give $5,000 in services to a campaign.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's chief of staff Saikat Chakrabarti (with her above) founded and ran the Tennessee-based PAC Justice Democrats, which her campaign paid $41,108.59
Ocasio-Cortez spokesman Corbin Trent told Post that both the campaign and the PAC followed FEC rules and that they sought advice from an elections lawyer.
'It was payment for services,' Trent said of the
