House GOP leaders accuse ActBlue of sneaky tactics to obstruct campaign finance fraud probe
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WASHINGTON — On Tuesday, three Republican leaders from the House committees accused ActBlue of intentionally hindering their investigation into the Democratic fundraising platform. This accusation comes after a revealing report suggested that ActBlue may have misled Congress about its fraud prevention measures during the 2024 election cycle.

The chairmen of the House Oversight, Judiciary, and Administration committees addressed a letter to ActBlue CEO Regina Wallace-Jones. The letter referenced an April 2 report from The New York Times, which indicated that ActBlue “withheld materials responsive to the Committees’ subpoenas” issued in July 2025.

According to the report, the law firm Covington & Burling, which was working with ActBlue, issued a warning in a February 2025 internal memo. The memo suggested it was possible that ActBlue “accepted and/or facilitated the acceptance of foreign-national contributions into American elections,” which would be a violation of federal law.

After a video conference involving ActBlue executives and Covington attorneys, interim general counsel Aaron Ting stepped down. He cautioned that the leadership was “not fully committed to transparently addressing with the Board the seriousness of our most pressing concerns: the legal compliance of ActBlue’s past practices for screening political donations from abroad and its past representations to Congress regarding foreign donations and related matters,” according to the Times.

Shortly thereafter, another ActBlue attorney, Zain Ahmad, claimed he faced retaliation for exposing internal misconduct, as mentioned in Tuesday’s letter.

In the wake of these developments, over half a dozen senior officials at ActBlue resigned following the legal counsel’s warnings.


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The GOP chairmen’s years-long probe had uncovered evidence that ActBlue made donation standards “more lenient” during the 2024 cycle, The Post first reported, with internal records showing as much as 6.4% of all gifts could have flowed from illicit sources.

“Recent reporting by the New York Times confirms our initial findings and strongly suggests that ActBlue deliberately obstructed the Committees’ investigation, including through misleading statements and noncompliance with our subpoenas,” wrote Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.), Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and Administration Chairman Bryan Steil (R-Wis.).

“This has impeded the Committees’ ability to develop legislation protecting our elections against fraudulent political contributions and foreign interference.”

ActBlue has facilitated nearly $19 billion in spending on Democratic campaigns and causes since 2004.

Spokesperson De’Andra Roberts-LaBoo previously said in a statement: “The reality is that ActBlue CEO, Regina Wallace-Jones, never made false statements to Congress, as confirmed by several in-house and outside attorneys — including the very sources who are now offering a different story to the press.”

ActBlue informed the committees in an October 2025 letter that it had handed over “[a]ll non-privileged documents with responsive, relevant information,” in response to a subpoena three months prior.

The House committees also subpoenaed three of ActBlue’s lawyers and two employees of the AI-powered fraud prevention software firm Sift who had worked with the platform, The Post previously reported.

The chairmen are asking the Democratic fundraising juggernaut to fully comply with their subpoena by April 28.

They’ve requested “[a]ll documents and communications referring or relating to the potential or actual use of ActBlue by foreign nationals to make political contributions” and “[a]ll documents and communications referring or relating to ActBlue’s policies, practices, or procedures for preventing, deterring, or detecting political contributions by foreign nationals” since Jan. 1, 2020.

“Absent these steps, the Committees are prepared to use available mechanisms to enforce our subpoenas,” Comer, Jordan and Steil warned.

A House GOP aide told The Post that “all options” are on the table for compelling ActBlue to cooperate with the probe, including bringing Wallace-Jones or board members in to testify as well as contempt of Congress proceedings.

ActBlue didn’t make contributors provide a card verification value (CVV) for debit, credit or prepaid gift card transactions until January 2024 — around halfway through the election cycle, other records obtained by the chairmen’s investigation showed.

It also shifted standards twice in the election year — and still instructed employees to “look for reasons to accept contributions.”

Kimberly Peeler-Allen, who serves as chairwoman of ActBlue’s board of directors, claimed to the Times that “less than 1%” of donations in the 2024 cycle came from from foreign donors.

But the Republican-led inquiry turned up at least 237 overseas transactions using prepaid cards between September and October 2024 — including from Brazil, Colombia, India, Iraq, the Philippines, and Saudi Arabia, among other nations, according to an April 2025 interim report.

That same month, President Trump signed a memo that has prompted a Department of Justice investigation into whether illicit “straw donors” or foreign funds made their way into federal campaigns.

Reps for ActBlue did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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