GOP warns aggressive ActBlue illegal foreign donation investigation is far from over

House GOP investigators are warning that they are not done with ActBlue after a bombshell report fueled questions over whether the Democrat fundraising giant is accepting foreign cash and lying to Congress about it.“Whether it’s allowing fraudsters to steal taxpayer dollars or accepting illegal foreign donations through ActBlue, Democrats have proven themselves to be the party of fraud.Our investigation into ActBlue is far from over.
We expect more documents and testimony in the weeks ahead,” House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., told Fox News Digital.ActBlue is a massive platform for campaigns to raise money that’s used by Rep.Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-NY, Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed and the Democratic leaders of the House and Senate, among others.Republican lawmakers have long accused the company of having lax verification standards for donors, something ActBlue has said it actively improved since the start of the GOP’s probe.
But new findings, first reported by Fox News Digital, appear to show employees green-lighting donations despite some questions about where they came from.But the company maintains it did nothing wrong and signaled in comments to Fox News Digital that it has no plans to return any donations raised in the report.Committee on House Administration Chairman Bryan Steil, R-Wis., told Fox News Digital on Friday, “ActBlue’s own admissions raise serious questions about its fraud prevention practices, including a so-called passport verification process that did not actually verify or check entries against any government database.All options are on the table to ensure we get to the bottom of what is going on at ActBlue.”And a spokesperson for Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, and the House Judiciary Committee confirmed to Fox News Digital that the panel “will continue aggressive oversight of ActBlue, including additional depositions.”All three committees have been responsible for investigating the left-...