AOC hit with ethics complaint over $4,550 payments for dance training

A watchdog has slapped an ethics complaint against “Squad” Rep.Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, accusing her of misusing taxpayer funds on dance “training.”Americans for Public Trust, a private watchdog group that targets corruption, alleged that Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), 35, tapped into her Member Representational Allowance to shell out $3,700 to “Juan D Gonzalez” and $850 to “Bombazo Dance Co Inc” for what was described as “training” in December.The watchdog on Tuesday sent a complaint to the Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE) and argued that the rep made the payments in “contravention of federal law and the standards of the House of Representatives.”Ocasio-Cortez had dismissed concerns about the two December 2024 payments and seemingly implied they were campaign expenses instead, which the watchdog argued backs its case that the funds were misappropriated.“100% wrong.

None of this is taxpayer money, this is an FEC filing.Be loud and wrong about something else.

Try again next time,” she wrote on X Saturday in response to a critique.The Post was unable to find references to “Juan D Gonzalez” or “Bombazo Dance Co Inc” in Federal Election Commission records of Ocasio-Cortez’s congressional campaign disbursements.Americans for Public Trust disputed Ocasio-Cortez’s assertion that the payments were made with campaign cash by pointing to a section in the 1120-page list of House disbursements between Oct.

1, 2024, and Dec.31, 2024.

“Representative Ocasio-Cortez has made expenditures from her official office account that she herself contends should have been reported to the FEC, presumably because they were made for campaign purposes,” the watchdog wrote in its complaint.“If it is revealed that Representative Ocasio-Cortez has demonstrated a pattern of using her taxpayer-funded MRA to pay her campaign expenses, we further request a full investigation be commenced by your office.”Bombazo Dance Co Inc.

is a Bronx-based youth dance ...