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(JTA) — The chief of staff for Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., is under fire for wearing a T-shirt bearing the image of an Indian nationalist who collaborated with the Nazis.
Saikat Chakrabarti is seen wearing the green shirt in a video that aired in December on NowThis News about Ocasio-Cortez’s surprise congressional victory the previous month.

WASHINGTON — Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's chief of staff, Saikat Chakrabarti, who has been criticized by some Democratic lawmakers, will be leaving the New York Democrat's congressional office to join an organization working on the Green New Deal, according to several reports. (July 10, 2019 / JNS) U.S. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s chief of staff, Saikat Chakrabarti, donned a T-shirt featuring the face of former Indian leader Subhas Chandra Bose, who supported Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini. He wore it in a video produced by the left-wing outlet NowThis News, titled “Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Chief of Staff on Acting Fast in Congress,” in December.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's chief of staff is leaving her office, a departure that comes weeks after his public statements added tinder to an already fiery feud between the Democratic Party's. (July 10, 2019 / JNS) U.S. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s chief of staff, Saikat Chakrabarti, donned a T-shirt featuring the face of former Indian leader Subhas Chandra Bose, who supported Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini. Ocasio-Cortez’s chief of staff to leave her office after controversies Ann Wilson TheBL 08/03/19, 06:26 Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), during a House Oversight subcommittee hearing on July 10, 2019, on Capitol Hill in Washington.

The shirt features a sketch of Subhas Chandra Bose, a dissident Indian nationalist recognized by Adolf Hitler as the leader of the Free India Government. In exchange, Bose enlisted tens of thousands of Indian men to support the Japanese invasion of British India in 1944 and help fight the British in Europe for Hitler. The Indian Legion Bose raised for Germany trained as a regiment of the SS.
He also broadcast propaganda for Hitler on a radio network set up by Bose to encourage Indians to fight for freedom. Bose met with Hitler in Germany in 1942. Bose’s defenders said he collaborated with the Nazis only in order to gain independence for India from Great Britain.
The T-shirt controversy comes days after Ocasio-Cortez quoted Evita Perón, the first lady of Argentina who was a Nazi sympathizer, in a tweet in response to news that President Donald Trump had compared the two women.
“I know that, like every woman of the people, I have more strength than I appear to have,” Ocasio-Cortez tweeted, quoting Peron. She wrote in a second tweet quoting her: “I had watched for many years and seen how a few rich families held much of Argentina’s wealth and power in their hands. So the government brought in an eight hour working day, sickness pay and fair wages to give poor workers a fair go.”

“I know that, like every woman of the people, I have more strength than I appear to have.”- Evita Perón https://t.co/IH7y7C54ip

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Federal officials are reportedly investigating socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s (D-NY) former chief-of-staff Saikat Chakrabarti — who suddenly resigned from his position last week — over allegations that he committed campaign finance violations.

The investigation centers around two political action committees that Chakrabarti founded — Brand New Congress and Justice Democrats — which were created to promote far-left candidates across the U.S.

“But they funneled more than $1 million in political donations into two private companies that Chakrabarti also incorporated and controlled, according to Federal Election Commission filings and a complaint filed in March with the regulatory agency,” the New York Post reported. “In 2016 and 2017, the PACs raised about $3.3 million, mostly from small donors. A third of the cash was transferred to two private companies whose names are similar to one of the PACs — Brand New Congress LLC and Brand New Campaign LLC — federal campaign filings show.”

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“While PACs must follow stringent federal rules on disclosure of spending and fundraising, private companies are not subject to the same transparency,” the Post added. “Federal authorities are looking at new salary rules imposed by Ocasio-Cortez when she took office earlier this year, and whether they were put in place to let Chakrabarti dodge public financial disclosure rules, according to sources.”

The Post noted that Ocasio-Cortez did not show up to a scheduled event that she had this weekend and her office refused to comment on the matter.

The Washington Examiner reported on the bombshell allegations against Ocasio-Cortez and Chakrabarti back in March, noting that the cash transfers from the PACs are contradictory to what she claims to stand for — reducing “dark money” in politics.

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Tom Anderson, the director of the National Legal and Policy Center’s Government Integrity Project, told the Examiner: “It appears Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her associates ran an off-the-books operation to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars, thus violating the foundation of all campaign finance laws: transparency.”

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Ocasio-Cortez implemented a rule that she dubbed the “living wage” rule for her staff, which allowed her staff to “avoid public transparency laws that would require them to reveal outside income, gifts, and stock trading activity,” the Washington Examiner reported.

“Purposefully underpaying staffers in order to avoid transparency is an old trick some of the most corrupt members of Congress have used time and again,” Anderson added.