Absentee Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez isn’t just MIA in her own district – her mandatory 2024 financial disclosure documents were also missing for months.
Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) was among lawmakers who asked for a 90-day extension when they first came due back in May, but she then missed the second deadline, The Post has learned.
The socialist lawmaker finally filed Wednesday, a week late.
The socialist lawmaker reported she has somewhere between $17,000 and $81,000 in bank accounts and owes $15,000 to $50,000 in student loans. The federal filings list finances in ranges.
Among her assets, the “Squad” member listed $15,000 to $50,000 in a savings account and $1,000 to $15,000 in a checking account.
She reported $1,000 to $15,000 in a 401(k) from the National Hispanic Institute, where she worked as educational director before joining Congress.
In 2023, AOC reported having between $3,000 and $46,000 in the bank in her annual disclosure, meaning she’s added somewhere between $14,000 and $65,000 to her wealth in the past year.
Like fellow rank-and-file members of Congress, she earns an annual salary of $174,000.
The Bronx and Queens rep declared less than $1,000 in a brokerage account.
Notably absent from her disclosure — any sign of her partner of more than 10 years, fiancé Riley Roberts.
Ocasio-Cortez, 35, came under fire from the House Ethics Committee last month for calling Roberts, 37, her “spouse” on some ethics forms to receive perks such as travel and gala access, but leaving him off financial disclosures so she doesn’t have to disclose his assets.
“There is a reason Congress requires financial disclosures to include the spouses of members of Congress,” Dylan Hedtler-Gaudette, interim vp of policy and government affairs at the Project On Government Oversight, told The Post.
“If spousal disclosures were not required, it would be all-too easy to exploit that loophole and simply transfer any conflicted or problematic assets or financial activity into the spouse’s name.
“If her fiancée is going to avail himself of some of the perks and privileges of being the spouse of a member of Congress, he should surely have to likewise comply with the less convenient parts,” he said.
AOC identified Roberts as her “spouse” on forms filed this year when detailing trips to Japan, South Korea, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Italy — and previously in 2021 to secure a free $250 Met Gala ticket, where she infamously wore her $3,724 “Tax the Rich” dress.
“At the same time Representative Ocasio-Cortez was seeking to take advantage of exceptions to the Gift Rule only applicable to spouses and/or certain relatives, she was not disclosing Mr. Roberts’ financial interests as is required of Members who are legally married,” slammed the 26-page July House Ethics report.
Roberts, a web developer who grew up in a wealthy area of Arizona, has no reported assets, liabilities or stock holdings in the financial disclosure form.
Ocasio-Cortez, who got engaged to Roberts in Puerto Rico in 2022, has been tight-lipped about when they will say their “I do’s.” She did not return a request for comment.
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