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  1. Feb 15, 2019 · Verdict: False. Roberts provided $1,750 worth of digital marketing services to the Ocasio-Cortez campaign, but the services were performed free of charge. Fact Check: Roberts made headlines after it was revealed Friday that a House email account had been created in his name. This caused some to speculate that Ocasio-Cortez had hired her boyfriend.

    • The Claim: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is Worth More Than $1 Million
    • AOC’s Net Worth
    • Political Fundraising Takes Off
    • Our Ruling: False
    • Our Fact-Check Sources

    Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., has supported raising the minimum wage, forgiving student loan debt and increasing taxes for the wealthy. Now, in recent social media posts, Facebook users are raising questions about the New York congresswoman’s personal wealth. In a post shared more than 14,000 times, a Facebook user claims that Ocasio-Corte...

    Ocasio-Cortez’s story of bartender-turned-congresswoman after upending an incumbent Democrat in a safely blue New York district is well documented. Through most of her 20s, Ocasio-Cortez “lived paycheck to paycheck,” according to Time. When she took office in 2019, Ocasio-Cortez reported in her first financial disclosurethat she had a checking acco...

    While financial disclosures show that Ocasio-Cortez’s personal wealth has not skyrocketed during her time in Congress, her political fundraising has taken off alongside her national profile, according to Federal Elections Commission filings. During the 2020 election cycle, Ocasio-Cortez’s reelection campaign spent $17.3 million after raking in $21....

    We rate the claim that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has racked up more than $1 million in net worth as a member of Congress FALSE, based on our research. In her most recent financial disclosure, filed in September 2020, Ocasio-Cortez reported between $2,003 and $31,000 in assets, compared with student loan debt of between $15,000 and $50,000.

    The New York Times, June 27, 2018, "Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Emerges as a Political Star"
    Time, March 21, 2019, "'Change Is Closer Than We Think.' Inside Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Unlikely Rise"
    U.S. House of Representatives, accessed March 9, 2018 financial disclosure for Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
    USA TODAY, Sept. 10, 2019, "AOC makes student loan payment during congressional hearing on student loans"
  2. Sep 27, 2023 · According to the most recent disclosure from 2023, Ocasio-Cortez had documented that she had no more than between $1,001 and $15,000 in each of three different bank accounts.

  3. Mar 3, 2019 · The Washington-based Coolidge Reagan Foundation last week filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission alleging that Ms. Ocasio-Cortez, her campaign and Brand New Congress PAC orchestrated pass-through payments to Mr. Roberts.

  4. Jul 3, 2024 · When it was revealed that Roberts had a House staff email address, a conservative political strategist posted on X that Ocasio-Cortez was attempting to provide Roberts with a salary paid for by...

  5. May 20, 2022 · Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez just got engaged to new fiancé, Riley Roberts. What to know about how the engagement happened, ring details, and his job and net worth.

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  7. Mar 11, 2021 · As 2019 was her first year as a member of Congress, Ocasio-Cortez was not earning income as a server or from her campaign. She did, however, disclose the gift of an $829.18 swearing-in dinner ...