Democrat Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has been hit with an ethics complaint alleging she used campaign funds to pay for ketamine therapy.
The National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC), a conservative non-profit, has submitted a complaint claiming the New York Rep. spent more than $19,000 of the funds on sessions with psychiatrist Dr. Brian W. Boyle in 2025.
The complaint has been filed to the Federal Elections Commission (FEC), as well as the Office of Congressional Conduct (OCC).
Four separate expenditures by Ocasio-Cortez’s campaign sent to Dr. Boyle were designated as ‘leadership training and consulting,’ per FEC records.
The complaint alleges that the funds were ‘expended instead for personal psychiatric services provided to AOC or members of her campaign staff.’
‘Accordingly, those expenses were also misreported by the campaign committee with the FEC,’ the complaint states.
‘NLPC requests that the FEC and OCC immediately investigate the facts and circumstances of these payments and impose appropriate penalties and disciplinary sanctions against AOC.’
An investigation by the New York Post published earlier this month spurred the complaint.
New York Democrat Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has been hit with an ethics complaint alleging that she used $19,000 in campaign funds for personal use
Dr. Brian Boyle, Chief Psychiatric Officer of Stella Mental Health in Boston, whose office AOC’s campaign spent nearly $19,000 with, is shown in the photograph above
Dr. Boyle is the Chief Psychiatric Officer at Stella Mental Health in Boston, and does not list ‘leadership training’ or ‘consulting’ as specialties on his website.
He does however offer ‘Ketamine therapy,’ as well as Spravato, the only ‘FDA-approved ketamine nasal spray.’
Stella Mental Health has locations in California, Illinois, Massachusetts, and Utah, but not does not appear to provide services in either New York or the Washington, DC metropolitan area.
After the 2021 attack at the US Capitol, Ocasio-Cortez shared that she was ‘in therapy’ to process the trauma.
‘After the 6th, I took some time and it was really [Rep.] Ayanna Pressley when I explained to her what happened to me, like the day of, because I ran to her office and she was like, ‘you need to recognize trauma’,’ Ocasio-Cortez told public radio show Latino USA in 2021.
‘Oh yeah, I’m doing therapy but also I’ve just slowed down,’ she added.
‘I think the Trump administration had a lot of us, especially Latino communities, in a very reactive mode.’
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez during a press conference at the US Capitol, Washington, DC, USA, 25 March 2026
The Daily Mail has reached out to Ocasio-Cortez’s campaign for comment.
The outspoken progressive and ‘Squad’ member joined Congress in an upset victory in 2018.
She ousted former longtime Democrat Joe Crowley, the former chairman of the House Democratic Caucus.
