Amid allegations a major left-wing fundraising platform deliberately disabled safeguards to prevent illegal political donations, and stonewalling by corporate executive, Congress is moving ahead with compulsory subpoenas.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), House Administration Committee Chairman Bryan Steil (R-WI), and House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) “sent subpoenas to ActBlue’s Former Vice President of Customer Service Alyssa Twomey and an ActBlue Senior Workflow Specialist compelling their appearances before the Committees for depositions regarding allegations that online fundraising platforms, including ActBlue, have accepted fraudulent donations from domestic and foreign sources,” a statement from the Judiciary Committee announced.
ActBlue is accused of not activating options requiring donors to confirm their legal residency, something other major political fundraising platforms do.
“These ActBlue employees failed to comply with the Committees’ voluntary processes, therefore warranting a subpoena,” the Committee noted.
The Committee further notes:
Documents produced to the Committees indicate that while serving as ActBlue’s Vice President of Customer Service, Alyssa Twomey managed ActBlue’s fraud-prevention team. The Committees have found significant evidence that ActBlue had “a fundamentally unserious approach to fraud prevention” during this period.
For example, the Committees discovered that ActBlue weakened its fraud-prevention standards twice in 2024 despite knowledge of significant attempted fraud on the platform, including from foreign actors. Similarly, ActBlue’s training guide for new fraud-prevention staff instructed employees to “look for reasons to accept contributions” rather than assess potentially fraudulent donations with a skeptical eye.
Other internal ActBlue documents show that top fraud-prevention staff assessed that there were several mechanisms by which bad actors could evade ActBlue’s fraud-prevention systems and make illicit donations.
In order to legislate effectively, the Committees must first gather more information about these and other instances of potentially fraudulent donations being made through online fundraising platforms.
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AS CORRUPT AS THESE DEM-O-RATS ARE, I WOULDN’T DOUBT IT THAT THEY FUNNELED FOREIGN MONEY FOR THEIR BRAINDEAD PLANS!!!