[SPEAKER_01]: This is a news.com newsflash.
[SPEAKER_00]: In a new report, the panel concludes that a failed to pay market value for services and items associated with the event.
[SPEAKER_00]: While she attempted to follow house rules on gift-acceptances, the committee found that Ocasio-Portez inframisibly accepted F, a gift of free admission to the twenty-twenty-one met Gala for the partner, fiancee Riley Roberts, and Failette to pay full fair market value for some of the items warranted the event.
[SPEAKER_00]: As guests of both, Ocasio-Portez and her partner received tickets value to thirty-five thousand dollars each.
[SPEAKER_00]: Additional services provided included custom gown, along with professional hair and makeup, plus a hotel room for event preparations.
[SPEAKER_00]: Although the Congresswoman worked alongside an attorney to navigate ethics rules and paid for a majority of the items, the committee claims that the payments were significantly delayed in some payments fell short of fair market value.
[SPEAKER_00]: In response to the ruling, Ocasio-Cortez's chief of staff, Mike Casca, said, the Congresswoman appreciates the committee finding that she made efforts to ensure her compliance with house rules and sought to act consistently with her ethical requirements as a member of the house.
[SPEAKER_00]: She accepts the ruling and will remedy the remaining amounts as she's done at each step in this process.
[SPEAKER_00]: After the event, Ocasio-Cortez addressed the attention her dress received by sharing the message behind it on Instagram.
[SPEAKER_00]: The medium is the message, Ocasio-Cortez wrote at the time, and why see elected officials are regularly invited to and attend the met due to our responsibilities in overseeing our city's cultural institutions that serve the public.
[SPEAKER_00]: I was one of several in attendance.
[SPEAKER_00]: Dress is barred.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now it's snowing.
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