In aĀ report released Friday,Ā the committee said that Ocasio-Cortez āproactively took steps to complyā 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,Ā ādespite Representative Ocasio-Cortezās 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.ā
The ethics panel said it did not find evidence that Ocasio-Cortez āintentionally underpaidā for costs related to the event, and that āin many instances,āĀ 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 alsoĀ released a separate reportĀ related to Rep. Mike Kelly, a Pennsylvania Republican,Ā 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 ādid not find evidence that he knowingly or intentionally caused his spouse to trade based on insider information.ā
But the report said that the panelĀ ādid not receive full cooperation from Mrs. Kelly and was therefore unable to determine whether her stock purchase was improper.ā
The report concluded by saying that āRepresentative 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.ā
This some bull shit right here.
Iām totally with you on that. Most of the daily headlines are just distractions from the child-raping dictator that should be front and center. And by all means I hate the bastard as much as the next sane person. If he were on fire, the only liquid Iād pour on him would be an accelerant. I also think itās possible that in the midst of all this bullshit, occasionally stuff will happen thatās still just part of the everyday red-tape of working for the government. The best I can tell from this article is that the committee made it a point to state they donāt think AOC acted maliciously here - just some stafferās fuck-up - and AOC doesnāt appear to even be disputing it.
So, in this particular instance, just kinda seems like āTrump rapes childrenā was OPās attempt at a redirect when someone asked if they even read the article that theyāre sharing - a question which they never did answer; given the reading habits of most people Iāve interacted with on Lemmy, itās certainly not an unfair question to ask.
āSometimes a cigar is just a cigar.ā