Writer/reporter Luke Thompson divulged last week that Rep. Alexander Ocasio-Cortez, D-NY, set up her boyfriend, Riley Roberts, with an official house.gov email address, noting that he was “drawing a salary on the taxpayer’s dime.”

The self-avowed democratic socialistic was quick to dispute that notion, responding to say Roberts was set with the email account to access her Google calendar, which may not be entirely within House rules, given that they don’t appear to be married — the haste in which Ocasio-Cortez responded verified the accuracy of the boyfriend having a government email address.

And Thompson is back this week with even more damning information regarding the alleged proletariat who claims to be fighting the political class. Information that, if true, says more about Ocasio-Cortez adapting to the DC swamp than it does about her fighting it.

AOC and boyfriend Riley Roberts, photographed by Annie Leibovitz, Vogue, November 2018 pic.twitter.com/1UnxSjY7No — Jack Posobiec (@JackPosobiec) February 15, 2019

Taking to Twitter, Thompson lays out a case where Ocasio-Cortez’s boyfriend was paid $6,000 by a PAC owned by Saikat Chakrabarti, now her chief of staff, at a time “when her campaign was running out of money.”

The PAC is affiliated with Justice Democrats, a collaboration between Chakrabarti and Cenk Uygur of The Young Turks, Thompson noted.

Last week, @AOC and her Chief of Staff @saikatc (the rich guy in question) freaked out on me when I pointed out it looked like she'd hired her boyfriend. I did some digging in the FEC. Turns out Saikat has "hired" her boyfriend, before…just not to do any actual work. — Luke Thompson (@ltthompso) February 20, 2019

According to Thompson, money flowed both ways, from Ocasio-Cortez’s campaign to Brand New Congress LLC, which ran parallel to the PAC, and back to the boyfriend as a “marketing consultant.”

Thompson noted that Roberts “doesn’t work in marketing.”

The payments to Roberts are the largest payments made by @BrandNew535 to any person or group other than Brand New Congress LLC. Oh, and Roberts doesn't work in marketing. pic.twitter.com/XN8AYl0l7J — Luke Thompson (@ltthompso) February 20, 2019

The suspicious timing of the transactions — a total of $6,000 being paid to Roberts, and Brand New Congress LLC receiving $6,191.32 from Ocasio-Cortez’s campaign — was also highlighted:

Plus, the timing looks bad. .@BrandNew535 paid Riley Roberts $3,000 on August 9th, 2017.@AOC‘s campaign paid Brand New Congress LLC $6,191.32 on August 27th. A month later @BrandNew535 then paid Riley Roberts another $3,000. pic.twitter.com/Oym09gLGZy — Luke Thompson (@ltthompso) February 20, 2019

It was also pointed out that Roberts used separate addresses for the transactions.

Roberts lists his residence as Arizona, where he’s from, for the purposes of the disbursement, but for the in-kind work in 2018 and his cash donations to @AOC‘s campaign, he lists New York. Looks like a sad attempt to be sneaky. pic.twitter.com/lNAzmm4svP — Luke Thompson (@ltthompso) February 20, 2019

Thompson reports that Chakrabarti said he left the PAC, but appears to still own the LLC.

He also said the money paid to Roberts may be “unethical and maybe illegal,” as they were apparently living together at the time.

.@saikatc funneling money to Roberts – who @AOC says is her spouse – is unethical and maybe illegal. And AOC didn't disclose this income, and didn't claim Roberts as a spouse, in her candidate financial disclosures. 2017: https://t.co/6ZgNoNWGmz

2018: https://t.co/wr1Dr1uAhP — Luke Thompson (@ltthompso) February 20, 2019

While there’s much to play out here, social media users are asking why the major newspapers obsessed with bringing down President Trump aren’t all over the story?

Would someone in journalism like to explain why this article didn't appear in The Washington Post or The New York Times months ago? https://t.co/0aVXrTJxwD — John Ekdahl (@JohnEkdahl) February 20, 2019

Melissa Mackenzie wrapped things up well, to include a nice bow.

“ @ AOC is a shyster. Big surprise. Has a home in a swanky new high rise in DC, too,” she tweeted. “Another big surprise. Before you know it, she’ll be Bernie with three houses and millions in the bank true commie style.”

MUST READ:@AOC is a shyster. Big surprise. Has a home in a swanky new high rise in DC, too. Another big surprise. Before you know it, she'll be Bernie with three houses and millions in the bank true commie style. https://t.co/49k1geuDTu — Melissa Mackenzie ? (@MelissaTweets) February 20, 2019

Here are a few other responses:

At absolutely kindest, this proves that AOC is guilty of precisely the sort of legalized corruption and wheeling and dealing that she regularly rails against https://t.co/LzeUjOO71t — Alex Griswold (@HashtagGriswold) February 20, 2019

Brazen hypocrisy: @AOC rails against the influence of dark money and PACs, but has no problem with her boyfriend getting paid under the table by one that prominently backs her… https://t.co/dCWikLwB2N — Evan Siegfried (@evansiegfried) February 20, 2019

We now have @Ltthompso and @MahgdalenRose reporting shady dealings between AOC and Chakrabarti The money kept flowing between the PAC, the LLC, and the candidate's boyfriend and the addresses kept changing Why? They may have violated election lawshttps://t.co/SNkBtJvNEQ — Jack Posobiec (@JackPosobiec) February 20, 2019