What is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez' net worth?
CONGRESSWOMAN Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has been the US representative for New York's 14th congressional district since 2019.
AOC drew national recognition after defeating Democratic Caucus Chair Joe Crowley, a 10-term incumbent, in the Democratic Party's primary election on June 26, 2018.
What is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez' net worth?
According to Celebrity Net Worth, AOC has a reported net worth of $100,000.
Her annual salary as a Congresswoman is reportedly $174,000.
These figures cannot be verified, however.
Before her career in politics, AOC worked as a bartender and then established the publishing firm Brook Avenue Press.
Back in 2018, Vox reported: "Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez isn’t rich.
"Your bank account shouldn’t be a requirement for participating in democracy."
Why was 'Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Smollett' trending on February 4, 2021?
AOC was being dubbed "Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Smollett" on social media on February 4, following emerging details about her initial claims she made about the January 6 Capitol siege.
On February 1, Ocasio-Cortez described a confrontation with a Capitol police officer at her office the day of the Capitol riot.
In the Instagram live video, AOC described hiding in a bathroom with Rep. Katie Porter (D-Cali) during the attacks on the Capitol, convinced she was going to die.
She offered an emotional recollection of when she heard a Capitol police officer breaking into her office.
"I thought I was going to die," she said, noting that she didn't initially realize the person trying to enter her office was police.
"I have never been quieter in my entire life."
Amid the confusion, AOC said she was searching for a pair of running shoes in case she had to run for her life.
However since her emotional claims, details have emerged that she may have exaggerated the extent of her "trauma," given that she was not at the site of the siege, but in an office building nearby.
AOC was in her office when rioters stormed the Capitol, which is located in the Cannon building.
The building is part of the overall Capitol complex, but is not within the Capitol building itself.
The 31-year-old Congresswoman was being compared to actor Jussie Smollett, who in 2019 lied to Chicago police about being the victim of a hate crime.
What did AOC say about the claims?
AOC slammed the "disgusting" claims that she "exaggerated her near death" experience during the Capitol riots last month.
Writing on Twitter, Ocasio-Cortez said her opponents were "manipulating the fact that most people don’t know the layout [of] the Capitol complex".
"We were all on the Capitol complex - the attack wasn’t just on the dome," she said.
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"The bombs Trump supporters planted surrounded our offices too."
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Ocasio-Cortez continued: "People were trying to rush and infiltrate our office buildings - that’s why we had to get evacuated in the first place.
"The attempts of attackers & publicly available communications show how they tried to gain access and share location info on finding members for physical harm."
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