AOC hit with ethics violation after saying fiancé both is and isn’t her ‘spouse’ in government filings
The Republicans of the Parliamentary Ethics Committee condemned the New York representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez after saying that his fiancé Riley Roberts was “his wife ve and was not in government applications.
In the July 2025 report, the Ethics Committee criticized Ocasio-Cortez for listed Roberts as a “wife ında in the federal documents he opened before he joined. 2021 Met gala. Roberts and Ocasio-Cortez are not legally married.
“The Committee also found evidence that the representative Ocasio-Cortez listed Mr Roberts as a ‘wife’ on the documents opened with the house regarding special sponsored trips, but the two were not legally married during talented travel,” he said.
Similarly, Ethical Panel Roberts stated that Roberts was listed as a spouse in the documents to participate in the gala, but that Ocasio-Cortez was not listed as a spouse in financial files, Daily Mail noted. If he had been listed as a spouse, he would have had to disclose stock and other financial assets.
“The Committee also states that representative Ocasio-Cortez is trying to benefit from exceptions to the gift rule that is valid only for spouses and/or certain relatives, and Mr. Roberts does not explain the financial interests of the legally for members of the legally,” he adds.
Ocasio-Cortez and Roberts have been engaged since 2022 (Copyright 2018 Associated Press. All rights reserved.)
Last month, Ocasio-Cortez was ordered to pay thousands of dollars after determining that the ethical panel did not pay market rates in connection with the appearance of MET Gala in 2021. The panel said that his 35 -year -old dress was “rich taxation için for jewelry and access.
In the July 2025 report, the committee says that after paying $ 2,700 to Ocasio-Cortez’s clothing and accessories sellers, the investigation will be closed. The panel said that the Congress Member was cooperating with the investigation.
The committee is also the Gala Organizer and Vogue editor Anna Wintour He invited Ocasio-Cortez and Roberts to the event.
Ocasio-Cortez and Roberts when they both read Boston University And he’s been engaged since April 2022, Mail noted.
Ocasio-Cortez lawyer David Mitrani argued that Roberts was not subject to financial explanation rules because Roberts was not accepted as a wife ”.
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The Committee says that Roberts benefits from some benefits of being a spouse who allows a spouse to get a congress pin, allowing the congress complex to reach certain limited parts.
“Mr. Roberts and Congress Member has been living together and since 2016, the Committee says. “Mr. Roberts has received a co -pin since the congress member of the congress member entered the congress in 2019.”
It is clear that the term ‘wife’ is accepted by the committee by the committee by the Committee, as used in this old rule, and by the committee expanding ‘spouse or dependent’, allowing a member of the congress to bring a person to their relationships or religious relations.
