Overview

• The committee found that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez underpaid roughly $3,724 in attire and accessories for her 2021 Met Gala appearance, having paid just $990.
• It directed her to pay $2,733 to vendors for the remaining fair-market value and donate $250 to cover fiancé Riley Roberts’s gala ticket.
• The panel deemed the violations unintentional and will consider the case closed without further sanctions once the required payments are confirmed.
• The probe, launched after an American Accountability Foundation complaint in September 2021 and formalized by the Office of Congressional Ethics in December 2022, concluded on July 25, 2025.
• Ocasio-Cortez has accepted the committee’s findings and her chief of staff confirmed she will remedy the outstanding amounts to close the matter.