Taliban warns US against drones as Bribem relies on ‘over the horizon’ ops

Callie Patteson

The Taliban is warning the United States against flying drones over their “sacred airspace,” to avoid “any negative consequences,” even as President Biden has said the US military now relies on “over the horizon” operations to counteract terrorism in Afghanistan. 

On Wednesday, the Taliban’s Twitter account released a statement accusing the US of violating “all international rights, laws and the United States’ commitments to the Islamic Emirate in Doha, Qatar as Afghanistan’s sacred airspace is being invaded by US drones.” 

“These violations must be rectified and prevented,” the militant organization said. 

“We call on all countries, especially the United States, to treat Afghanistan in light of international rights, law and commitments and considering mutual respect and commitments, in order to prevent any negative consequences.” 

Meanwhile back at the White House...

The warning came the same day as top US military leaders, Gen. Frank McKenzie, Gen. Mark Milley and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin testified before Congress on the chaotic end of the war in Afghanistan. 

On Wednesday, McKenzie was asked if the administration has secured agreements with neighboring countries to “provide the basic and overflight requirements needed to perform over the horizon counterterrorism operations” in Afghanistan. 

Despite the Taliban’s warning, McKenzie assured the US has the ability to execute the missions. 

“As of today, I have the ability to enter Afghanistan and to fly missions, it’s a long haul in, but I have the ability to do that today. But, we don’t have an agreement with a neighboring country,” he said, adding, “We’re not based in any neighboring

country.”

 

 

Joe Bribem said the US military now relies on “over the horizon” operations in Afghanistan.AP

Following the withdrawal of US troops and evacuation of American citizens and Afghan allies from the embattled nation, Biden announced the US military would operate “over the horizon” missions to fight against terrorism in Afghanistan. Those missions do require the use of drones. 

During the hearing, Rep. Mike Waltz (R-Fla.) pointed to the issue of how these missions can fail without on-the-ground intelligence in neighboring countries or Afghanistan. 

“Now we’re going to get to really the crux of the issue, which is over the horizon counterterrorism. Those drones have to fly all the way around Iran, all the way up Pakistan and lose 70 to 80 percent of their fuel before they even get anywhere near a target.

“And we just saw from the failed attack – the botched attack – that you have to have multi-intelligence confirming what that drone operator’s seeing,” he said, referring to the retaliatory drone attack on Aug. 29 that killed 10 civilians, many of whom were children, instead of ISIS-K members.

 

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Gen. Kenneth McKenzie, commander of the United States Central Command, (aka dumb, dumber, and dumbest) testify during the House Armed Services Committee on the conclusion of military operations in Afghanistan, Sept. 29, 2021.Rod Lamkey/Pool via AP

“I know that drone operator would appreciate [somebody] on the ground saying, ‘No, that’s a civilian, don’t pull that trigger,’” Waltz added. 

On Friday, Pentagon press secretary John Kirby assured that the U.S. has “all necessary authorities to execute over the horizon counterterrorism operations.” 

“Without speaking to specific rules of engagement surrounding airstrikes, there is currently no requirement to clear airspace with the Taliban,” he said. “And we do not expect that any future over-the-horizon counterterrorism strikes would hinge on such a clearance.”

It is unclear if the US has continued drone surveillance or airstrikes in Afghanistan in recent weeks.

Taliban warns US against drones as Bribem relies on ‘over the horizon’ ops

Exclusive—Rep. Bob Good: Bribem Wants to Give the IRS Automatic Access to Your Bank Account

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It seems you cannot open a newspaper today without finding another new mandate or regulation being proposed by the Biden administration, all intended to take more power from the American people and give it to Washington.

President Biden and Democrats in Congress now want to force your bank or credit union to report any and every transaction of $600 or more to the IRS. This action is a huge leap from the current requirement to report transactions of $10,000 or more and is textbook government overreach. One purpose of the initiative is to capture more money from Americans to pay for the record $3.5 trillion Democrat socialist spending spree.

Rep. Bob Good (R-VA) discusses the infrastructure bill making its way through Congress during a news conference held by the House Freedom Caucus on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on August 23, 2021. (AP Photo/Amanda Andrade-Rhoades)

Under the guise of holding the wealthy accountable for their fair share of taxes, the Biden IRS will actually be targeting middle America. The proposed regulation would apply to all business and personal accounts, affecting the lives of all American workers and small employers across the country. Biden’s IRS power grab is just the latest demonstration of the contempt his administration and Democrats in Congress have for business owners and job creators.

Smaller lenders and local financial institutions will be hit the hardest with the burdensome costs and complexities of reporting more of your private banking data to the IRS. Compliance, legal, and programming expenses will significantly increase operating costs for these unnecessary and unproductive activities. As these expenses are passed on to consumers, it will cost you more to do business with your financial institution, while also increasing the risk of data security and privacy breaches. The timing of these new onerous reporting requirements couldn’t be worse for businesses and consumers trying to recover from the government’s relentless over-the-top response to the CCP virus.

The National Taxpayer Advocate reports that the IRS “finished” the recent filing season with a backlog of more than 35 million tax returns still unprocessed. The IRS cannot handle their basic function in a timely or efficient manner, and now they want us to trust them with more power and greater invasion of consumer privacy?

Not only is the IRS’ new financial snooping proposal unnecessary, but it violates the principles of the 4th, 9th, and 10th Amendments to the Constitution. The Founders of this nation intended the right to privacy and property to be afforded to each citizen of this nation – no exceptions – as described in the 4th Amendment. Furthermore, the 9th and 10th Amendments together limit the reach of the federal government and protect the rights of American citizens from this kind of intrusion. The sad truth is that Democrats want more power centralized in Washington, and they want you to pay for it. Instead of reducing spending, they have turned to the IRS to help fund their woke, progressive, and intrusive policies, and there will never be enough money to pay for this socialist agenda.

President Joe Biden walks on the South Lawn after returning to the White House on September 20, 2021. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

President Biden promised that no one earning under $400,000 would face increased taxes as a result of his massive spending plans, but that is just one more lie from this president. In reality, Americans in all income brackets will suffer the consequences of out-of-control spending, higher prices, increased taxes, and more government regulations for years to come.

Requiring every American citizen to turn over their bank account information to the IRS is sadly consistent with the Biden administration’s desire to force every individual to surrender more of their freedoms to Big Government. Your body, your healthcare, your employment, your travel decisions, your worship habits, and now your financial transactions are increasingly under the control of this White House.

We cannot obey our way out of tyranny. We must resist our way out of tyranny.

Bob Good serves in the U.S. House of Representatives for Virginia’s 5th Congressional District. Congressman Good is a Member of the House Budget Committee.

Exclusive—Rep. Bob Good: Bribem Wants to Give the IRS Automatic Access to Your Bank Account

A travesty if I ever saw one

Parents of Marine imprisoned for criticizing Afghan crisis slams 'act of cowardice': 'Shame on Austin'

Scheller is being held in the brig at Camp Lejeune in Jacksonville, N.C., according to reports

If Lt. Col. Scheller goes to jail then these 4 fucks should be brought before a firing squad!!!

The dumb bastard is more concerned about illegal Haitians than he is about killing seven children!

BTW... Whipping Haitians, claiming voter ID is a throwback to the Jim Crow laws, and dying of thirst waiting in line to vote in Georgia... it's all the same...total bullshit!

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Charles Creitz

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Exclusive: Parents of outspoken Marine locked in solitary confinement talk to Laura Ingraham 

Lt. Col. Scheller's parents demand Milley and Austin resign: 'They should be embarrassed'

The parents of a U.S. Marine lieutenant colonel who spoke out in August to criticize his superiors over the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan that left 13 of his fellow Marines dead from a suicide bombing told "The Ingraham Angle" that their son is being unfairly punished as he sits in yet-indefinite solitary confinement at a base in Jacksonville, North Carolina.

Stuart Scheller Sr. and Cathy Scheller – the parents of Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller Jr.– told "The Ingraham Angle" that they were further incensed by the behavior of the military's own leadership during a Senate hearing earlier Tuesday, saying that Gens. Mark Milley, Kenneth Frank McKenzie and Lloyd Austin – the Defense secretary – refuse to take accountability for the disastrous withdrawal.

"Our son called for accountability. Throughout the hearing today I don’t feel like they accepted accountability," Scheller Sr. said. "I am extremely disappointed. It’s no coincidence in my opinion that they put a gag order on [Stuart Jr.] and they put him in prison the day before they had to appear in front of senators – and tomorrow in front of congressmen."

"I think that is fairly an act of cowardice," he said.

Cathy Scheller told host Laura Ingraham their son has been sent to the brig, formally "pretrial detention," but has yet to be given a trial date or be charged with any crime under the UCMJ or other laws. She added that he has been unable to contact them, save for a short phone call to her to help him retain counsel.

The Marine Corps acknowledged the "time, date and location" of the "Article 32 preliminary hearing" has not been determined.

Lt. Col. Scheller is being held at Camp Lejeune, a major Marine Corps base in Jacksonville – about 20 miles southwest of Cape Carteret.

Prior to his punishment, Scheller had been a battalion commander at Camp Lejeune, according to WCTI.

OUTSPOKEN MARINE OFFICER WHO WENT VIRAL BLASTING MILITARY LEADERS HAS BEEN IMPRISONED: REPORT

On "The Ingraham Angle," Cathy Scheller responded to Milley's testimony before the Senate, who, during questioning from Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., replied that his father had not had the opportunity to resign at Iwo Jima, calling the act of resignation inherently "political."

"My thoughts are, our son said to him, ‘If you thought this was a bad idea, were you willing to take your rank and put it down and say I won’t put our men and women in peril?’ -- He said have dropped his rank and resigned and said, ‘I will not do this to our members.’ He didn’t do that," she said.

Scheller Sr. noted Scheller Jr. had been on five deployments overseas and has served in the USMC for 17 years.

"The Marines have fast-tracked him in his career. Until 30 days ago, he was a hero to the leadership of the Marine Corps. On August 26th," he said. "When 13 of our servicemen died in the Kabul Airport, something inside of our son snapped. He was angry. He is principled – he is a very courageous and principled man – but when that happened, he had to go and ask his leaders for accountability. He had many active duty Marines and veterans were asking is it worth it."

Under questioning again from Cotton, this time specifically about Scheller, Austin replied that questions should be "ask[ed] of the Marines to provide that insight."

"I could not believe those words came out of his mouth," Cathy Scheller said of Austin. 

"If he doesn’t know what is going on, shame on him… We are not going to let them take their dirty little secret and hide it away and put our son so he can’t speak and take him away from freedom of speech so they can hide their little secret."

Scheller Sr. acknowledged that his son had broken the chain of command by speaking out – but countered that Austin, Milley and McKenzie Jr. have "broken the chain of trust and confidence of the American people."

"They should drop their rank and they should resign for that. Today’s hearing showed they won’t accept accountability for the mistakes they made. They wanted to blame everybody else."

"You and I both know Joe Biden won't fire them," Scheller Sr. told Ingraham.

Following his critique of the withdrawal, Scheller would go on to release several more videos, generating praise and controversy while drawing the ire of military leadership. Eventually, he was told by superiors to stop posting to social media altogether, an order he immediately ignored by posting about the gag order.

In a later video on Sept. 16, Scheller promised to lodge charges against McKenzie for his role in the chaos, according to WCTI.

Fox News' Michael Lee contributed to this report.

A travesty if I ever saw one

Assault on female US service member by male Afghan refugees at Fort Bliss under FBI investigation

If this doesn't piss you off nothing will!

These are the same bastards that begged to come to America who pushed women and children out of the way so they could get on the plane. These are the same bastards who didn't have the balls to go on the 'assault' against the Taliban to fight for their own country. And these are the same bastards, along with illegals, they are shipping to a neighborhood near you.  

I'm starting to get that warm fuzzy feeling. You know, like when we took care of those other refugees and put them on welfare. The Tsarnaev brothers.

Oh, and then there's this:

Bahrullah Noori is being charged with attempting to engage in a sexual act with a minor at Fort McCoy in Wisconsin. If convicted, Noori faces a minimum of 30 years in prison.

Isn't that just great? Dumb-ass Bribem brought them to this country and now the American taxpayer has to foot the bill for the scumbag to stay in jail for 30 years!

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The incident comes on the heels of two Afghan refugees being charged with federal crimes at a Wisconsin military base

An investigation is underway into an alleged attack of a female U.S. military service member by several male Afghan evacuees being housed at Fort Bliss.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has confirmed to Fox News it is investigating a referral from a Fort Bliss Afghan refugee housing complex in New Mexico alleging that a woman, whose name and age are unknown at this time, was assaulted on Sept. 19 by a "small group of male evacuees."

AMB. RON JOHNSON: JUST 3 WEEKS LATER, TRUE HORRORS OF BIDEN'S AFGHANISTAN FIASCO ARE SURREAL

"We received the referral from Fort Bliss and our office is investigating the allegation," FBI Public Affairs Officer Special Agent Jeanette Harper told Fox News. 

Officials at Fort Bliss confirmed the report of the assault to Fox News.

"We can confirm a female service member supporting Operation Allies Welcome reported being assaulted on Sept. 19 by a small group of male evacuees at the Doña Ana Complex in New Mexico," the 1st Armored Division and Fort Bliss Public Affairs said in an emailed statement. "We take the allegation seriously and appropriately referred the matter to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The safety and well-being of our service members, as well as all of those on our installations, is paramount."

The statement added that counseling and support has been provided to the service member.

"Task Force-Bliss is also implementing additional security measures to include increased health and safety patrols, additional lighting, and enforcement of the buddy system at the Dona Ana Complex," the statement continued. "We will cooperate fully with the FBI and will continue to ensure the service member reporting this assault is fully supported."

Rep. Yvette Herrell, a Republican congresswoman who represents New Mexico’s 2nd congressional district, called the news a "vetting failure."

"My prayers are with the courageous soldier and her family. This is yet another tragic failure in the vetting process for Afghan nationals," Herrell tweeted. "The American people deserve answers."

The alleged attack comes on the heels of two Afghan refugees housed at Wisconsin’s Fort McCoy being indicted for federal crimes including sexual assault on a minor and domestic assault.

CRUZ, GOP SENATORS PRESS BIDEN ON AFGHAN 'CHILD BRIDES' AMONG REFUGEES

Bahrullah Noori, a 20-year-old Afghan evacuee, is being charged with attempting to engage in a sexual act with a minor using force against that person, along with three other counts of engaging in a sex act with a minor, according to a statement from the Department of Justice. Additionally, 32-year-old Mohammad Haroon Imaad is being charged with assaulting his wife by choking and suffocating her on September 17.

Republicans on Capitol Hill have reacted to the news of violence carried out by Afghan refugees being housed in the United States with demands for answers from the Biden administration. 

On Thursday night, Oklahoma Sen. James Lankford and four other Republican senators sent a letter to the Biden administration seeking more details on the way Afghan refugees are being vetted. 

"How many Afghan nationals are waiting on background checks at a transit site? How many Afghan nationals have been paroled into the United States?" the Republican senators asked. "What specific categories, classes, or criteria constitute the Administration’s definition of ‘vulnerable Afghans’? How many individuals who have been paroled into the United States fall under each category, class, or criteria?"

Earlier this month, an official with the Biden administration categorically denied anyone "of concern" had made it into the country, saying there is a "second layer" of screening once a refugee gets to a U.S. entry point.

"No one has gotten into the United States or entered that is of concern," the official said. "The administration is working with urgency and with care to enhance the screening and vetting operations to make them more efficient without compromising U.S. national security."

Houston Keene and Alexandria Hoff contributed to this report

Assault on female US service member by male Afghan refugees at Fort Bliss under FBI investigation

This is why people are so skeptical...

It really is mind boggling. Siegel has been on FOX numerous times lately explaining in great detail how the Chinese created Covid which he now says quite possibly came from the Wuhan lab. Back in the middle of 2020 he swore up, down, and sideways there was no way the Chinese created Covid. Naturally after spending half an hour looking for the video the sites I checked said it had been removed. I remember him saying something about the 'genetic code' and after he examined it claimed there's absolutely no evidence that it was tampered with.

A total 180... he missed his calling he should've been a politician.

This is why people are so skeptical...

Haiti?

 No this is the former state of Texas:

As you're viewing these photos kindly remember what Dumb F--k said.

"There is no crisis at the border"

Perhaps I blame Bribem too much. Is he calling the shots or is he being controlled? After all, mentally I don't believe he's all there. For years anybody who followed politics knew long before the election what an idiot he was. Yet they went ahead and voted for him, many more then once, in an election ripe with fraud so now we're stuck with the POS. And think about this... to make matters worse if he can't complete his term things get even more dire...not better! 

BTW...the photos you are about to see are very reminiscent of what Haiti still looks like today. Over the last 20 years or so they have experienced mudslides, hurricanes, earthquakes, and have been given gazillions of dollars by the United States and other various countries around the world. Yet they still live in squalor.

This is Bribem's solution (or his handlers) to the problem. Ship them to other parts of the United States!

Catch and release: Biden makes mockery of his pledge to send home Haitian migrants by RELEASING thousands into America with just 1,000 deported since Sunday. So why should they stop coming?

Haiti?

Without drastic changes, Democrats are on track to lose big in 2022

Still waters run deep

Under the catastrophic direction of Bribem even his cheerleaders, the main stream media, will not be able to keep him afloat. 

His two biggest debacles that should put both Houses in the hands of Republicans:

"There's no crisis at the border"

(Call me crazy but shouldn't everybody be concerned about who's coming into the country? When illegals are busy killing American citizens I don't think there's much thought given as to whether they're Democrat or Republican.) 

Catch and release: Biden makes mockery of his pledge to send home Haitian migrants by RELEASING thousands into America with just 1,000 deported since Sunday. So why should they stop coming?

 So to make this 'appear better' so they're not all gathered in one place they're shipping them to other parts of the country. This has got to be against the law!!!!

Afghanistrophic

And the imbecile called it "An Extraordinary Success"

If the Republican Party does not take both houses in the midterms the American people truly deserve to be governed by idiots.

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The marked decline in support for President Biden and his administration nationally and in key swing states indicates that the Democratic Party could endure a blowout defeat in the 2022 midterm elections. 

Moreover, Biden is in a significantly weaker position now than both of his most recent Democratic predecessors — Bill Clinton and Barack Obama — at this point in their presidencies, which suggests that Democrats could suffer even more substantial losses in 2022 than the party did in 1994 and 2010. 

Indeed, voters nationally and in seven key swing states disapprove, rather than approve, of the job Biden is doing by a margin of 7 points or greater, according to a Civiqs survey released last week. 

Nationally, 50 percent of voters disapprove of the job Biden is doing as president, while just 42 percent approve. 

For reference, at the same point in Obama’s first term, Obama’s net approval rating was 19 points higher than Biden’s is right now. At the time, a majority of voters (52 percent) approved of Obama, while 41 percent disapproved, according to a Gallup survey released on Sept. 13, 2009.

That being said, in the 2010 midterm elections, Democrats lost a net of 64 House seats and Republicans gained six seats in the Senate.

Likewise, on Sept. 12, 1993, Clinton’s approval rating was recorded at 47 percent approve and 42 percent disapprove by a Gallup survey. To put that in context, Clinton’s net approval rating was 13 points higher than Biden’s is at the same point in his presidency.

Yet in the 1994 midterms, Democrats lost a net of 52 House seats and Republicans picked up eight seats in the Senate.

To note, Democrats’ blowout midterm defeats in both 1994 and 2010 can be attributed in large part to their passage of massive spending and tax bills in the years prior. 

The Democrats’ 1994 defeat came after they pushed through Congress the then-largest tax increase in history without any Republican support. And in 2010, Democrats lost due in large part to voters’ perception of an ineffective economic stimulus as well as governmental overreach on health care and the economy by the administration and congressional Democrats.

To note, a number of recent polls show that voters have grown increasingly negative on the Biden administration’s handling of major domestic issues, including the economy, COVID-19, immigration at the southern border and the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan.

And now, with congressional Democrats having approved a budget blueprint in their $3.5 trillion dollar spending bill — which will bring massive tax increases and will likely increase the debt, deficit and inflation — the electoral backlash against Democrats could be even more substantial than in both 1994 and 2010.

In addition to Biden’s precipitous national decline, the president’s approval rating in key swing states, most of which he won in 2020, has dropped. This of course bodes poorly for Democrats’ 2022 prospects — and also makes it increasingly likely that Biden will be a one-term president — notwithstanding a dramatic turn of events in Democrats’ favor.

In five key swing states — Georgia, Florida, Arizona, North Carolina and Pennsylvania — voters disapprove, rather than approve, of the job Biden is doing by a 10-point margin or greater, according to the aforementioned Civiqs polls. To note, Biden won Georgia, Arizona and Pennsylvania in 2020 and narrowly lost North Carolina and Florida.

And in Michigan and Wisconsin — two swing states that were once reliably Democratic, both of which Biden won in 2020 — voters now disapprove of the president’s job performance by margins of 7 and 8 points, respectively. 

It is noteworthy that, both nationally and in these key states, Biden’s approval has been driven down in large part by independent voters. Though Biden won national independent voters handily in 2020, a majority (58 percent) now disapprove of the president, while just 31 percent approve.

This data is clearly troubling for Democrats — especially when taken together with the fact that the mere circumstances of the 2022 midterms are challenging for the party. Republicans need to pick up just five House seats, and redistricting alone could cost Democrats close to or even more than that number. 

Further, since World War II, only twice has the president’s party gained seats in the midterm elections — in 1998 and 2002, when both presidents had approval ratings over 60 percent and, even so, saw only meager House seat gains. 

Democrats face bleak outlook in Florida 

Katie Hill launches effort to protect Democratic majority in House 

Simply put, the current 2022 outlook for Democrats is grim — and it could get even worse. 

If the Biden administration continues to push unnecessarily big government spending initiatives and tax increases, along with weak immigration policies and an incoherent foreign policy strategy, Democrats could suffer the most substantial midterm loss of any party in recent history. 

Douglas E. Schoen is a political consultant who served as an adviser to President Clinton and to the 2020 presidential campaign of Michael Bloomberg. He is the co-author of a forthcoming book “The End of Democracy? Russia and China on the Rise and America in Retreat."

Without drastic changes, Democrats are on track to lose big in 2022

Democratic response to Drone Bomb Which Killed 10 Afghan Civilians And No Terrorist Targets

 

Democratic response to Drone Bomb Which Killed 10 Afghan Civilians And No Terrorist Targets

After Afghans fell from plane, families live with horror

https://www.foxnews.com/world/afghans-fell-plane-families-live-horror

I never quite understood out of fear they would not pick up a gun to defend themself and their country but had no problem committing suicide by hiding in a wheel well of a C 17.

After Afghans fell from plane, families live with horror

AOC’s ‘Tax the Rich’ dress designer Aurora James owes debt in multiple states

 

I love it!!!

Jon Levine  

Designer Aurora James called her “Tax the Rich” dress for Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez a “powerful message” — but it’s not one she has taken to heart.

The 37-year-old fashionista who made waves at the Met Gala with Democratic-Socialist AOC last week is a notorious tax deadbeat with unpaid debts dogging her in multiple states, records show. 

Most of luxe-living James’ arrears center on Cultural Brokerage Agency, an LLC she formed in 2011 to serve as the parent company of her fashion brand, which today is known as Brother Vellies. It’s a favorite of people like Beyoncé, Rihanna, and Meghan Markle.

The company racked up three open tax warrants in New York state for failing to withhold income taxes from employees’ paychecks totaling $14,798, the state Department of Taxation and Finance told The Post. The debts — which were incurred before the pandemic — stem from 2018 and 2019. The company has been hit with 15 warrants in total since 2015.

Front page of the New York Post on Sept. 19, 2021.

The company got into a deeper hole with the feds. Between April 2018 and April 2019, the Internal Revenue Service placed six federal liens on Cultural Brokerage Agency totaling $103,220. The liens specifically cite the company’s failure to remit employee payroll taxes. 

The IRS declined to comment on their current status.

“Just because they take it out of your paycheck doesn’t mean they’re sending it to the government,” David Cenedella, a Baruch College taxation lecturer explained after reviewing the liens. “It’s certainly not something you want. I would not say your average business out there has this. Something went wrong.”

Aurora James owes $2,504 in property taxes on this home.

While James apparently has no problem stiffing the Taxman, she isn’t shy about taking money from taxpayers — her company received in $41,666 in pandemic relief aid. 

Over the years Cultural Brokerage Agency has also faced multiple legal challenges as a result of habitual nonpayment of worker benefits.

In October 2019 the state Worker’s Compensation Board slapped the company with a $17,000 fine for not carrying worker’s-comp insurance between March 2017 and February 2018. The company currently owes $62,722 and no payments have been received to date, a rep for the board told The Post. Workers’ comp is paid out when an employee is hurt at work and misses time. 

Ex-staffers blasted the operation as a sweatshop that relied on legions of unpaid interns working full-time jobs. 

“I experienced a lot of harassment when I worked for her,” one former contract employee told The Post. “Aurora would ask me to do things that were not in anyone’s job description, like scheduling her gynecological appointments. The work environment was so hostile that I was afraid to ask for my check.” The employee was ultimately terminated. 

An ex-intern called James “quite cold,” adding that “she never gives recognition or acknowledgement to her team.”

James is also an alleged rent deadbeat, records show. 

Aurora James called her “Tax the Rich” dress for Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez a “powerful message” — but it’s not one she has taken to heart.Getty Images

In August 2020, James’ landlord filed papers to evict Brother Vellies from their location at 71 Franklin St. in Brooklyn, as well as demanding more than $25,000 plus interest for staying beyond the end of her lease. The case was settled. 

She was sued by a previous landlord in February 2018 for more than $5,000 in unpaid rent at her shop’s old address at 209 West 38th Street in Manhattan.

“Aurora, obviously we did not want it to come to this, but you never have paid your rent in a timely manner,” wrote Matthew Mandell, a rep for her Manhattan landlord in a frustrated March 2018 email. “We have been more than patient.” 

Though AOC proudly labeled James a “working class” designer as they waltzed down the Met Gala red carpet, her lifestyle has been anything but. As the pandemic raged across America, igniting a deep recession, James scooped up a $1.6 million residence in Los Angeles in September 2020. 

The Tudor-style home with cathedral ceilings, a master-bedroom fireplace and backyard hot tub sits on 7,095 square feet in the posh Hollywood Hills, according to RedFin. 

True to form, the property is already listed as “delinquent” by the Los Angeles County assessor’s office, which told The Post James owed $2,504 in property taxes.

Though AOC was comped tickets to the annual ball for boldfacers, entry to the famously exclusive Met Gala runs $35,000 a head. James attended the bash with Benjamin Bronfman, a rumored boyfriend she’s frequently spotted with. Bronfman, 39, is a scion of the powerful Bronfman family and its distilling empire. He is worth an estimated $100 million.

Photos from the event show the pair smiling broadly with Ocasio-Cortez and her boyfriend Riley Roberts. 

James’ unpaid bills belie her champagne tastes. She frequently jets off to exclusive locations, her Instagram richly decorated with photos from Jamaica, Morocco, France, Indonesia, Mexico, Italy, the United Kingdom and The Hamptons.

The 37-year-old fashionista who made waves at the Met Gala with Democratic-Socialist AOC last week is a notorious tax deadbeat with unpaid debts dogging her in multiple states.Jose Perez/Bauergriffin.com / ME

She also found money to make a $2,700 donation to Hillary Clinton in 2016. 

“It’s the height of hypocrisy when socialists attend a $30,000 per ticket gala with a message of ‘tax the rich’ while wearing an overpriced dress by a luxury designer who doesn’t pay taxes,” Republican Staten Island Congresswoman Nicole Malliotakis told The Post. “What happened to everyone paying their fair share?” 

Both James and her reps did not respond to multiple requests for comment from The Post.

James pushed progressive causes long before making headlines for dressing America’s most famous socialist. After the death of George Floyd in May 2020, she created the 15 percent pledge, demanding that major companies commit to buying 15% of their products from black-owned businesses. The idea took off with major companies like Bloomingdale’s, Vogue, Sephora, and Crate & Barrel, according to a 15 percent pledge website. 

“This is the least you can do for us. We represent 15% of the population and we need to represent 15% of your shelf space,” James said in an Instagram post announcing the idea. 

Ocasio-Cortez, who has made a career out of demanding better worker wages and benefits, and taxing the rich to pay for her budget-busting federal programs, did not respond to multiple requests for comment. 

Additional reporting by Ben Blanchet

 

AOC’s ‘Tax the Rich’ dress designer Aurora James owes debt in multiple states