Bombshell House Report Accuses ActBlue of a Massive Fraudulent Donation Cover Up [WATCH]

Three House committees have released an interim staff report accusing ActBlue, the Democratic fundraising platform, of failing to prevent illegal foreign political contributions.

The House Judiciary Committee, House Administration Committee, and House Oversight and Government Reform Committee presented the findings after investigating the platform’s fraud prevention practices for two years.

According to the report, ActBlue changed its fraud policy twice during the 2024 presidential campaign.

The committees said the platform adopted “more lenient” standards that allowed money from foreign donors and other suspicious sources to flow into United States political campaigns.

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Earlier this year, The New York Times reported that lawyers for ActBlue warned that its chief executive had given potentially misleading responses to Republican investigators.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton also filed a lawsuit accusing the organization of allowing foreign donations and lying about its donation practices.

Several ActBlue staffers pleaded the Fifth when called to testify before Congress.

More recent reporting also revealed that an elderly Michigan woman appeared to have made 15,000 donations totaling more than $150,000 through ActBlue to various candidates, including Abdul El-Sayed.

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The woman lives in a trailer and relies on a fixed income. She denied making those donations, although she acknowledged that she had sent some money to Democrats.

The committees found that ActBlue CEO Regina Wallace-Jones may have misled Congress about the platform’s process for reviewing foreign contributions.

The report said ActBlue appeared to be “knowing and willful” in accepting those contributions and also accused the organization of whistleblower retaliation.

New information obtained by the committees portrayed ActBlue’s approach to fraud prevention as “unserious.”

That included failed policies supposedly designed to “prevent” illegal and fraudulent contributions.

The report also examined a “passport verification process” that it described as an “ineffective security method.”

According to the findings, that process did not require donors to provide a valid United States passport number.

Fraud prevention analysts were allegedly told to “give the donor the benefit of the doubt” and ignore red flags involving donations with foreign indicators.

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Those instructions favored accepting questionable contributions rather than treating the warning signs as grounds for rejection.

The report said ActBlue employees were often instructed to accept donations they previously had rejected because of signs that they could be illegal foreign contributions.

That practice placed the burden on analysts to establish fraud with certainty before keeping suspicious money out.

One employee said that a donor who “has a few red flags, such as IP/billing mismatch and a concerning IP provider name, a foreign credit card, an odd email domain, and [is] connected to other rejected users via browser fingerprint,” should be accepted because ActBlue “can’t say for sure that this is fraud.”

An analyst separately reported “an odd pattern of small donations to the [Kamala] Harris campaign using prepaid cards.”

Another ActBlue employee nevertheless said that the donation was “good to accept.”

The report concluded, “American elections belong to American citizens. ActBlue, one of the largest online political contribution platforms, maintains unserious fraud-prevention practices that allow illegal foreign donations in U.S. elections. The Committees have been conducting oversight ofActBlue’s lax fraud-prevention practices since 2024. This third interim report presents new information about ActBlue’s unserious approach to fraud prevention.”

The committees also said that “internal logs show how ActBlue maintains a culture that instructs fraud analysts to err on the side of accepting questionable foreign donations.”

That allegation goes beyond a few isolated transactions and points directly at the platform’s internal practices.

Federal law prohibits foreign nationals from contributing to American elections.

As ActBlue moved billions of dollars into political campaigns, it had a responsibility to take indications of foreign or fraudulent activity seriously and comply with federal law.

The committees allege that ActBlue instead weakened safeguards, loosened guidelines, gave questionable donors the benefit of the doubt, and encouraged employees to find reasons to approve flagged contributions.

Congress, regulators, and ActBlue now face the question of how much questionable money reached American campaigns and who will be held accountable.

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