Democratic socialist congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is facing a new Federal Election Commission complaint from a conservative lawyer who says she engaged in a 'subsidy scheme' to violate election finance laws, and lamented that 'a mediocre cocktail slinger who flunked history can run for Congress.'

Ocasio-Cortez, 29, helped lead a for-profit company that worked on her campaign and a dozen others, but provided fundraising, organizing and other services so cheaply that it went out of business, according to an FEC complaint filed Wednesday by attorney Dan Backer and his Coolidge Reagan Foundation.

The money came from a pair of political action committees controlled by Ocasio-Cortez and her congressional chief of staff Saikat Chakrabarti, who was also her campaign manager. His for-profit company has since closed its doors.

Election law dictates that the difference between what the campaigns paid the company and the work's value on the open market is an 'in-kind' contribution, and counts against the limit on how much a single person or PAC can donate to any given campaign.

New York Democratic Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has been hit with a new campaign finance complaint that alleges she and her chief of staff engaged in a 'subsidy scheme' to illegally funnel PAC money to his company so he could run liberal candidates' campaigns on the cheap

Saikat Chakrabarti (left) allegedly controlled both ends of the financial exchanges, as both the sole proprietor of a company and board member of two political action committees that funneled hundreds of thousands of dollars to it in order to subsidize cheap campaign services

The Justice Democrats PAC and Brand New Congress PAC were each limited to giving $10,000 to individual candidates, half during primary campaigns and half during general elections.

If we want a society where even a mediocre cocktail slinger who flunked history can run for Congress, it shouldn’t only be possible on the knee of a dark money sugar daddy like Chakrabarti. Attorney Dan Backer, the campaign finance lawyer behind Wednesday's FEC complaint against Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Backer claims Chakrabarti's Brand New Congress LLC, a company he dismissed Wednesday as a 'dark-money slush fund,' did 'in excess of $1 million' worth of work for the 13 campaigns, all at cut-rate prices, accepting just $173,101 from them in payment.

The company used $867,014 from the two PACs to cover the shortfalls created by its 'overhead and infrastructure costs.' according to the FEC complaint.

'Through this complex web of shadowy entities, Ocasio-Cortez and Chakrabarti ensured the flow of hundreds of thousands of dollars of unreported, illegal, dark money contributions to aid the campaigns of Ocasio-Cortez and other far-left Progressive Democrats,' the complaint reads.

Backer compared the arrangement to an intentional version of a failing pizza delivery service.

Brand New Congress is one of the two PACs involved in what the new FEC complaint describes as an illegal money-shifting scheme; it has the same name as Chakrabarti's for-profit company, which is now defunct

'Imagine ordering a pizza delivery and only being charged for the cost of the dough, sauce and cheese – not the salary or benefits of the labor to make it, or the delivery cost, or the rent on the kitchen, or advertising, or anything else.,' he explained in an email.

'Here, the subsidy paid for the entire infrastructure to deliver the services well below what they actually cost,' he explained.

Attorney Dan Backer

Ocasio-Cortez's office did not respond to a request for comment on Wednesday.

Justice Democrats, one of the two PACs at the center of the complaint, laid out its relationship with the private company in May 2018.

'Our goal with Brand New Congress was to recruit candidates who were not thinking about running already and to actually fully run all of their campaigns as if it was one big presidential race,' the group said then.

Backer has already filed one other FEC complaint against Ocasio-Cortez, alleging that she improperly gave her boyfriend an official congressional email address even though he isn't an employee.

Ocasio-Cortez fired back at the time on Twitter that it was a legal way for him to see her internal calendar.

Backer also runs a PAC of his own – the 'Stop AOC' PAC.

He said Wednesday that he and another campaign finance expert are personally paying for the legal work, which he described as 'a deeply personal labor of love' related to his disdain for socialism.

'Shaun McCutcheon and I foot what few bills we have, and my firm provides pro bono legal services,' he said, adding that the Coolidge Reagan Foundation's typical donations 'are $50 or less.'

IRS records show the organization has never collected more than $50,000 in any year, the minimum amount requiring submission of a formal tax return.

Ironically, McCutcheon was the plaintiff in a landmark Supreme Court case that overturned what had been limits on total amounts of political contributions over a two-year period.

Backer was among his attorneys at the time. He said Wednesday that while he's trying to force Ocasio-Cortez to acknowledge that she skirted campaign finance law, his preference would be to loosen donation limits as much as possible.

'What really grinds my gears is that what they did SHOULD be legal – but it’s the virtue signaling hypocrites like The AOC [sic] who are demanding we make political speech and association even harder and more complex – which increases the costs and keeps people out,' Backer said.

'If we want a society where even a mediocre cocktail slinger who flunked history can run for Congress, it shouldn’t only be possible on the knee of a dark money sugar daddy like Chakrabarti.'

Backer is also treasurer of the pro-Trump 'Great America PAC,' led by Republican strategist Ed Rollins.