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Jun 15
The House Administration Committee, chaired by Republican Bryan Steil of Wisconsin, held a hearing on June 10th with ActBlue CEO Regina Wallace-Jones. It focused on allegations that ActBlue allowed illegal foreign donations and that she may have misled Congress about their screening process.
She invoked the Fifth Amendment 22 times, refusing to answer even basic questions like whether she goes by Ms. Wallace-Jones. Her lawyers had warned her she might have given false info to Congress earlier. Republicans called it suspicious and said the probe continues. Democrats called the hearing partisan and pointed to the Republican fundraising platform instead.
It was pretty dramatic, she basically said nothing the whole time.
As CEO, she signed off on that 2023 letter to Congress claiming they had strong, multilayered checks against foreign money. But internal lawyers later told her those steps weren’t always followed, and her whole legal and compliance team walked out or got pushed out over it. Pleading the Fifth 22 times in the hearing doesn’t exactly scream “I was in the dark.” It looks more like she was trying to avoid self-incrimination on something she was directly involved in.
Jun 15
On the foreign money side, there’s a big ongoing fight. Republican-led House committees put out reports saying ActBlue’s weak checks let in illegal foreign donations, stuff from places like Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Colombia, and others. One report flagged up to 38 million dollars in 2024 contributions that looked suspicious.
They say ActBlue loosened fraud rules twice in 2024, which let more shady stuff through, then their whole legal and compliance team quit or got fired over it. The CEO got hauled in front of Congress, pleaded the Fifth a bunch of times, and ActBlue says it’s all partisan attacks, they block foreign donations and the bad stuff is a tiny fraction. DOJ’s looked at it too, but it’s still disputed.
On the Black Lives Matter money, that one’s clearer. In 2020 after George Floyd, BLM pages on ActBlue Charities pulled in tens of millions, part of a huge surge where ActBlue had record days over 20 million in a single day. While some of the donations went to BLM groups, must went straight to Democratic campaigns. ActBlue claims they just process it and take a cut. The money is suppose to be earmarked for the recipient you pick when donating. Allegations of it all being funneled to the DNC are under investigation. BLM’s network said they raised about 90 million that year, yet no Black Community has ever been helped.
Bottom line, the foreign stuff is serious allegations with internal chaos at ActBlue and the BLM money has already had multiple people charged with misuse of the funds.
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