<p>Rep. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/she-aint-worth-it-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-intervenes-in-verbal-confrontation-between-marjorie-taylor-greene-and-jamaal-bowman" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s</a> (D-NY) office says that she has never been married — but according to a new report from The Washington Free Beacon, she has identified her fiancé as her &#8220;spouse&#8221; on several forms filed with the House Ethics Committee.</p>
<p>The <a href="https://freebeacon.com/democrats/aoc-cites-longtime-partner-as-spouse-but-keeps-his-finances-under-wraps-a-potential-breach-of-ethics-rules/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a>, written by investigative journalist Andrew Kerr, detailed <a href="https://disclosures-clerk.house.gov/gtimages/MT/2023/500025932.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">forms</a> pertaining to the congresswoman&#8217;s official travel in 2022 and 2023 that were submitted to the committee — in which Riley Roberts, Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s fiancé, was listed as her &#8220;spouse.&#8221; Also submitted were the New York Rep&#8217;s financial disclosure statements — on which Roberts was also referred to as her &#8220;spouse,&#8221; but his finances were not disclosed.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">If AOC is indeed married, her spouse&#39;s finances are now subject to public disclosure.</p>
<p>But she did not disclose any of Roberts’s reportable stock holdings, assets, or income on her latest financial disclosure, though she did make two references to her &quot;spouse&quot; in the filing. <a href="https://t.co/USREG8xvdI">pic.twitter.com/USREG8xvdI</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Andrew Kerr (@AndrewKerrNC) <a href="https://twitter.com/AndrewKerrNC/status/1701933017726370207?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 13, 2023</a></p></blockquote>
<p>The issue, Kerr explained, is fairly simple: if the pair are not married, then Roberts cannot be named her &#8220;spouse&#8221; on official travel forms. And if they are, Roberts must disclose his finances according to House rules.</p>
<p>The congresswoman&#8217;s office told the Free Beacon that Ocasio-Cortez and Roberts have never been legally married. However, spokeswoman Lauren Hitt appeared to brush the criticism aside – claiming that &#8220;House Ethics has commonly recognized the term spouse to extend to long-term partners.&#8221;</p>
<p>According to the report, that is not true — the House Ethics Committee <a href="https://ethics.house.gov/sites/ethics.house.gov/files/documents/Dec%202022%20House%20Ethics%20Manual%20website%20version.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">defines marriage</a> specifically as &#8220;someone to whom you are legally married.&#8221;</p>
<p>According the the Free Beacon&#8217;s report, Hitt could have been referring to the Office of Congressional Ethics, which considers a long-term romantic partner to be &#8220;synonymous with a spouse&#8221; — but her actions would be governed by the committee.</p>
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<p>But the question was still raised in the report: if Roberts was Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s &#8220;spouse&#8221; for the purpose of overseas travel, why would he not also be her &#8220;spouse&#8221; for the purposes of financial disclosures?</p>
<p>With regard to their finances, as long as Ocasio-Cortez and Roberts remain unmarried, the boyfriend loophole exempts Roberts from financial disclosure requirements.</p>
<p>&#8220;If they were married then she would be required to disclose his finances on her 2022 financial disclosure,&#8221; Kendra Arnold, executive director of the Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust, told the Free Beacon. &#8220;There is no exception to this rule.&#8221;</p>

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