Dem fundraising giant ActBlue accused of fraudulent donation 'cover-up' in explosive report

FIRST ON FOX: A Democrat fundraising giant used by the biggest players on the left is being accused of covering up the acceptance of fraudulent political donations and lying to Congress about its security standards.Congressional Republicans are providing an update on their investigation of ActBlue — a platform for campaigns to raise money that's used by Rep.Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed, and the Democratic leaders of the House and Senate, among others — that alleges the company potentially accepted foreign contributions and concealed the evidence from the GOP's probe.ActBlue has previously denied any wrongdoing.DEM FUNDRAISING GIANT IN THE HOT SEAT AS GOP LAWMAKERS DEMAND ANSWERS OVER DODGED SUBPOENACommittee on House Administration Chairman Bryan Steil, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, and House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer are investigating ActBlue.

(Finn Gomez/Getty Images; Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images; Finn Gomez/Getty Images)"The Committees’ oversight has found that ActBlue, in its own words, decided to take 'a more lenient approach' to fraud prevention in 2024, weakening its fraud-prevention policies at least twice even though internal assessments showed that these changes would result in a measurable increase in fraudulent contributions," the report said, citing an ActBlue staff report."Similarly, internal trainings directed ActBlue’s fraud prevention team to 'look for reasons to accept contributions' rather than to examine them closely for indicators of fraud — as required by federal regulation.ActBlue took this lax approach to fraud prevention even though it had detected at least 22 significant fraud campaigns on the platform in recent years, including several from foreign sources."Republicans accused ActBlue of accepting "illegal foreign political donations" and the "subsequent cover-up" of that information.As an example, the report cited a letter by ActBlue CEO Regina Wallace...