Dem Fundraising Arm ActBlue Accused Of Partaking In Massive Money-Laundering Scheme
ActBlue Charities Inc., the most prominent political action committee for Democrat and progressive causes, is being accused of engaging in a massive money-laundering scheme involving a largely number of allegedly fraudulent donations.
Investigative researcher Parker Thayer, who works with the Capital Research Center, shared a screenshot showing tens-of-thousands of donations allegedly sent by the same Michigan individual.
“A single donor in the small town of Monroe has supposedly donated over 20,000 times since 2019, totaling >$40,000,” Thayer wrote. “They live in a 1,000 sqft house built in 1956.”
Another donor in Brighton, Michigan has made more than 2,500 donations since October 2023. That individual’s address was listed as a retirement home.
“There are dozens more donors like the examples above, and there are two explanations,” Thayer wrote. “1. [ActBlue] is preying on seniors with poor memory by repeatedly sending them requests to sign up for stacking monthly contributions. 2. Some sort of straw-donor scheme is happening.”
Earlier this year, James O’Keefe reported on a number of suspicious ActBlue donations that mirror those made by Thayer. As part of his investigation, O’Keefe and others conducted interviews with alleged donors — most of whom were seniors — who were shocked to see the number of donations being made in their names.
In March, O’Keefe traveled to Maryland and spoke with residents whose names and addresses were linked to tens-of-thousands in donations to ActBlue and other left-wing organizations or political candidates. Almost all residents said that they had donated to ActBlue and other campaigns, though all denied making large contributions.
Federal Election Commission data analyzed by Election Watch, a citizen journalist group, revealed that hundreds of senior citizens across the nation had been making hundreds and, in some cases, thousands of individual donations to ActBlue and other campaigns.
One senior citizen had made 1,009 individual donations for a total of $18,849.77 since 2022. While she did say that she had made donations to ActBlue and Joe Biden’s election campaign, she vehemently denied having donated more than $18,000 and was shocked by the news.
A citizen journalist in New Jersey recently uncovered additional evidence of pointing to alleged campaign finance fraud targeting senior citizens in New Jersey.
One elderly woman began sobbing after being informed that over $86,000 had been donated to left-wing political campaigns in her name. “86-thousand-dollars? Oh my, that’s…I… I did that?” the distraught senior citizen said. Over 5,300 individual donations had been made in her name over the course of two years. The donations ranged from just one dollar, all the way up to $5,000.
“I don’t remember giving hundreds of dollars to Pelosi. I was just giving more like 10 dollars, I don’t remember,” the woman said while looking at the list of contributions made in her name.
On September 30, 2022, 108 donations were listed in her name. “In one day? No wonder they keep contacting me as if I’m – and they keep giving me recognition as if I’m one of the best that they have,” she said.
“It’s trivially easy to find massive, repeated donations to ActBlue that use stolen identities and, quite possibly, stolen credit cards,” Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk wrote in an X post.
“For example, one person in Virginia has been named in 22,619 separate donations since 2019, totaling more than $800,000. Obviously, she’s being exploited for some kind of money-laundering operation,” Kirk continued. “ActBlue raises from all fifty states. We have fifty state AGs. When will one of them take action?”
In response to Kirk’s post, Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares vowed to investigate. “My office is aware of these allegations and rest assured, we are looking into it,” he said.
