George Santos went to prison for spending campaign money on personal expenses.
Now AOC just got caught routing nearly $19,000 in campaign donations to a Boston psychiatrist – and what she told federal investigators it was for will leave you speechless.
What she told the FEC it was for is the part that should make your blood boil.
AOC's Ketamine Doctor Has No Record as a Campaign Consultant
Dr. Brian Boyle is not a campaign consultant.
He's not a political strategist, a communications coach, or a debate prep expert.
He's the chief psychiatric officer at Stella, a chain of clinics whose clientele runs to celebrities and billionaires paying premium prices for ketamine infusions and anesthetic injections into the neck.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's campaign paid Boyle $11,550 in March 2025, $2,800 in May, and $4,375 in October – $18,725 total, documented in Federal Election Commission records reviewed by the New York Post.
Three separate payments to a ketamine doctor across a single year, all filed under the same vague label.
Ketamine was the same drug that Friends star Matthew Perry overdosed on.
Paul Kamenar, counsel to the National Legal and Policy Center – the watchdog group that has pursued AOC's campaign finances since 2019 – called it exactly what it looks like.
"While I can understand why AOC would spend $18,000 for a shrink whose specialties include narcissistic personality disorders, using her campaign contributions for what appears to be an expense for personal use violates federal campaign finance laws," Kamenar said.
He went further: "Dr. Boyle has no expertise in that area, unlike several Democratic campaign consultants. This looks like yet another example of misuse of campaign contributions."
The FEC Complaint That Could Cost AOC Far More Than 19 Grand
Federal campaign finance law doesn't leave much room here.
The FEC applies what's called the "irrespective test" – one simple question: would this expense exist even if the candidate weren't running for office?
Psychiatric treatment would exist whether AOC is in Congress or not.
That makes it a personal expense. Personal expenses paid with campaign funds are a federal violation.
AOC built her entire brand on demanding corporations open their books, grilling executives under oath, and positioning herself as the conscience of a party she considers too corrupt.
She's the same congresswoman who wore a "Tax the Rich" dress to the Met Gala in 2021 – then got caught accepting the gown, accessories, and related services as gifts, with the Office of Congressional Ethics finding "substantial reason to believe" she may have violated House rules.
She paid only after investigators came knocking.
She blamed a staffer.
The National Legal and Policy Center has now pursued AOC's campaign finances three separate times – the $900,000 funneled through LLCs in 2018, the obscured card payments in 2022, and now this.
What Your Donation Actually Bought
Santos pleaded guilty to nearly two dozen counts – spending donor money on personal expenses, then lying to the FEC about what it was for.
The key distinction prosecutors used: he labeled personal expenses as campaign expenses.
AOC labeled psychiatric sessions with a celebrity ketamine doctor as "leadership training and consulting."
Boyle himself told an interviewer last year that his elite clientele "tend to be more inclined to be on the hunt for highly effective solutions across beauty, health, mental health, nutrition and so on."
That's what AOC's donors funded.
AOC has talked openly about her own mental health – the trauma she claimed from January 6, the therapy she entered afterward, the day she described on public radio as "an extraordinarily traumatizing event."
Nobody's stopping her from seeing a therapist. Do it on your own dime.
Billing it to donors and disguising it on federal disclosure forms isn't a bookkeeping quirk – it's contempt for every person who clicked donate.
Sources:
- Gabrielle Fahmy, "AOC spends $19K in campaign cash on psychiatrist known for ketamine therapy," New York Post, March 21, 2026.
- Paul Kamenar, "AOC Used Campaign Funds for Psychiatric Treatment from Ketamine Doctor," National Legal and Policy Center, March 2026.
- Federal Election Commission, "Personal use of campaign funds is prohibited," FEC.gov.
- Fox News, "AOC's campaign obscured thousands of dollars in expenditures, FEC complaint claims," April 19, 2023.
- Washington Examiner, "AOC's campaign and ex-chief of staff failed to disclose $1 million in expenses," April 3, 2022.