BOMBSHELL: Designer of AOC's 'Tax The Rich' Met Gala Dress Owes Over $100K in Back Taxes
James is “a notorious tax deadbeat with unpaid debts dogging her in multiple states,” reported the Post, digging up records that show six IRS tax liens totaling $103,220 on the parent company of her fashion brand, three open tax warrants in New York State for failing to withhold $14,798 in income taxes from employee paychecks (plus twelve other since-resolved NY tax warrants), and a $17,000 fine for failing to carry worker’s compensation insurance.
She’s also a rent deadbeat, the Post claims, describing an eviction action by James’ previous landlord — along with a demand for more than $25,000 plus interest for staying beyond her lease. The case was settled for an undisclosed amount.
Another previous landlord reportedly sued James for more $5,000 in unpaid rent, sending her a letter complaining that she had “never have paid your rent in a timely manner.”
https://www.mediaite.com/entertainment/designer-of-aocs-tax-the-rich-met-gala-dress-owes-over-100k-in-back-taxes-accused-of-being-a-rent-deadbeat-and-running-sweatshop-of-unpaid-interns-report/
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Quite frankly, I really don't care. This is an independent business person who has to stand up for their own practices. It is the smearing of AOC or any other democrat for the behavior of someone else that is unacceptable and I'm not even particularly a fan or hers nor supportive of her myself. Repeating and promoting RW reporting is beyond questionable to me on DU, but whatever rocks your boat. 
It apparently is true.
Whether AOC was aware of it is another issue altogether. 
about…five of six years ago with all the little innuendo put-downs spouted as campaign chants. “Speeches”. “Wall Street”. “Corporations”. Lol, this is hilarious .
will be spun now. it’s just the hypocrisy of being a scold about the rich and taxes but wearing a dress by someone who hasn’t paid her taxes. Oh dear! 
now, so it’s good to see you on board with correcting that time period where there was so much dishonest messaging. Bravo! 
Now you see how the RW runs with all these superficial slogans that real Democrats defeated at the ballot box twice now. Let’s not feed the RWers !
But not everyone is in a safe district, so they can’t indulge themselves in this kind of messaging. They have to appeal to their local denizens. One district in New York is just one district in New York.
The designer obviously wanted to get attention by designing AOC's Met Gala gown. Did she really think no one would notice the message on the dress and bother to look into her own claims/finances?
Maybe she didn't think she was doing anything wrong.
with the theme of "America" and all she can come up with is a wedding dress with a slogan on the back?
"TAX THE RICH" they said.
Wow. the hypocrisy
(Declined to comment 🙄
That said, it never would've occurred to me, but I guess that's why I'm not a staffer to a Congresswoman. 
But it was a far more extensive relationship than that. They were essentially on a double date, planned the message out with intent (AOC explicitly referred to it as "our message" as "working-class women of color" , and it provided James with a platform that got her published on the subject.
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/new-york-post/
Overall we rate the New York Post on the far end of Right-Center Biased due to story selection that typically favors the Right and Mixed (borderline questionable) for factual reporting based on several failed fact checks.
If only there were real prizes.
Is that buttered? Hold the salt please.Here's my post you refer to. It says bernie where again? That's right. It doesn't.
Budi
52. Is the NY Post story wrong then? Is Politico RW as well, now under their new mgmt?.
"Millionares & Billionares"
BTW, That still doesn't answer my question.
Still waiting...
his messaging (he’s an Independent). His messaging also lost twice —with actual Democrats. So this isn’t about how you are trying to twist it to protect AOC from the reality of rejected messaging. You keep trying to make this personal, but it’s really time that you think about accepting that Bernie was rejected by Democrats, so this really isn’t about Democrats as much as you want to make it.
Google “Bernie Bingo.” 
It’s a hilarious compilation of all the little buzzwords, cliches and slogans. All part of a losing campaign, so it’s obvious that AOC is about the only way to keep that alive so saying she’s “elected” means we all have to shut up about where the losing messaging came from.
And since we’re keeping score… thanks for showing your desire to make things personal instead of being objective and realistic.
Are you dragging HRC into this too? If I am misunderstanding you, please clarify.
Otherwise...
the butt-hurt. it never ends
How is it AOC’s fault?
This article seems to be smear by association.
Source: https://www.spiegel.de/international/banning-the-swastika-should-germany-s-history-become-europe-s-a-337722.html
My take-away: In the fashion world, we may need to do a background check on artists.
If only Republicans were hated here as much as she is.
Like I said. AOC Aurora James 
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taxes…then hang out with a tax cheat. Wow! And the scolds were not only directed at RWers, as you know. There were years of innuendo about supposedly corrupt Democrats, all BS.
Edit:the scold comment was about messaging from a campaign.
som designers tax problems. Talk about bullshit nixie, this is rw bullshit . You should try scolding republicans instead of good Democrats. Now run along and complain about these women who have worn her designs
Diana Veras, Imaan Hammam, Solange, Beyoncé. to name just a few.
AOC has slimed no Democrats with nasty innuendo about corruption. She may have told the truth about one or two and given republicans hell about their corruption, that does seem to piss off quite a few people. She also has not called anyone an old man, even when they deserve it by being nasty with her. about Bernie. There are many progressive Democrats long before he came along, so he/she don’t have exclusive rights to that word —used mostly to browbeat people. We all know what he said about Democrats, so your statements are just not accurate. His messaging was rejected, and that’s reality.
We also know which Democrats AOC referred to via Bernie’s campaign with smears of corruption by chanting Wall Street, etc. This is old well-known history.
But it is funny the obsession some have with Joe Manchin. He uses some of the tactics that another fringe politician uses, lol.
The pretzels people will twist themselves into…
Later.
It’s amazing to see how tangential associations are now so irrelevant after years of just regurgitating “Wall Street” and that meant…guilty! Haha!!
Thank you, George!
I mean, AOC obviously knew that James owed back taxes and still used her. It was deliberate because she's such a huge hypocrite and doesn't really want to Tax the Rich. "Find me a dress by a tax deadbeat designer, I need to sabotage the plan to Tax the Rich or it's going to succeed!" she screamed at her overworked staffers.
Now Taxing the Rich will never happen, and it was all but a sure thing because Sinema & Manchin were surely on board with it...
Rwers gonna RW.
Wadda ya gonna do
I respectfully won't link it here.
Later
https://opencorporates.com/companies/us_ny/4083867
New York State Department of State
State Tax Warrant Notice System
https://appext20.dos.ny.gov/stwarrants_public/stw_warrants?p_name=CULTURAL+BROKERAGE+AGENCY+LLC&p_lapsed=0
New York City Department of Finance
Office of the City Register
https://a836-acris.nyc.gov/DS/DocumentSearch/DocumentImageView?doc_id=2018042800004036
There are two "members", one of whom is Aurora James.
https://www.dandb.com/businessdirectory/culturalbrokerageagencyllc-brooklyn-ny-33492823.html
That's why the lien documents name her both personally and as a corporate entity:
INDIVIDUALLY AND AS A RESPONSIBLE PERSON OF
CULTURAL BROKERAGE AGENCY LLC
Cultural Brokerage LLC is the parent company of Brother Vellies whose original name was Schier Shoes. Aurora James partnered with Schier when she first began marketing the vellies that Dutch Afrikaners founded businesses upon. Schier is the other "member" of Cultural Brokerage LLC.
Yes, it is complicated to unwind; that's advantageous to the wealthy, especially when they are skirting their tax responsibilities.
It's stunning when the rich fail to pay their federal taxes, the rent on storefronts in tony NYC neighborhoods, the rent on shops in trendy Brooklyn, and the property taxes on their second homes on the west coast. Maybe the gown was meant as hipster irony.
It's not enough to tax the rich. They also need to be called out when they fail to pay what little tax is already levied on them and their corporate entities.
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Wealthy tax scofflaw Aurora James walked the red carpet at the Met gala, proud as can be.
You can see Ms James in her trademark halo hat, to the left and in front of the stooped-over staffer who's carrying the train of the gown worn by the representative from NY-14.
I wonder what he thought of the dress.
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Link to tweet
TY
So thanks for posting the heartwarming redemption tale
The message isn't more believable coming from the tax evading designer. That's as ridiculous as saying that the message of "big pharma is corrupt" sounds more credible from someone who profits from and has a cozy relationship with big pharma (or big jet-fighters, or big nuclear-waste, or big whatever-else.)
we'd be having a different conversation
... she just refuses to pay, until forced, or threatened with immanent or impending legal consequences and other penalties.
Although it looks like she needs to hire new accountants
People who have a tax record has no right to say "Tax the Rich"
That's excellent progress and I'm sure everyone looks forward to her paying back the rest of her debt
Too bad some people objectively care more about a clothing designer facing tax enforcement action than the fact that Amazon paid zero corporate taxes in 2018.
We need to teach her a lesson she won't forget
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