ActBlue employees took the Fifth in House depositions 146 times
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WASHINGTON — In a significant development, ActBlue employees have reportedly exercised their Fifth Amendment rights at least 146 times during depositions with congressional committees probing potential donor fraud on their fundraising platform, as detailed in a striking report released on Monday.

The report, an interim release from the House Administration, Oversight, and Judiciary Committees, disclosed that two ActBlue officials — including a former vice president of customer service — along with three former lawyers, chose not to respond to any substantive questions posed by the committees.

The committees expressed heightened concerns in the report, noting the refusal to testify during depositions conducted between July and December 2025. The report further highlighted issues with ActBlue CEO Regina Wallace-Wells, suggesting she may have made “false statements to Congress” and withheld documents despite a subpoena demanding those records.

In response to these allegations, ActBlue has consistently maintained its innocence. A spokesperson reiterated the organization’s stance, asserting that it has “always been forthcoming with Congress.”

The Fifth Amendment, an essential legal provision, allows witnesses to remain silent to protect themselves from self-incrimination.

The Fifth Amendment protects witnesses from self-incrimination by allowing them to say silent.

Administration Chairman Bryan Steil (R-Wis.), Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) and Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) said the congressional testimony and subpoena evasion necessitated “additional information about ActBlue’s fraud-prevention practices for foreign donations dating back to 2020.”

An unidentified ActBlue senior workflow specialist managing fraud prevention and ex-vice president Alyssa Twomey, who oversaw the fraud-prevention team at the platform during the 2024 election year, were both subpoenaed in June 2025.

Former ActBlue general counsel Darrin Hurwitz, ex-director and associate general counsel Aaron Ting and former counsel Zain Ahmad, who seemingly faced retaliation for blowing the whistle on lax fraud vetting standards, were issued subpoenas in September 2025, The Post first reported.

The trio had departed ActBlue after an outside law firm representing the fundraising juggernaut, which has collectively raised nearly $19 billion for Democratic causes since 2004, noted that there were legal risks with the change in donation standards.

It could “be alleged that ActBlue accepted and/or facilitated the acceptance of foreign-national contributions into American elections,” in violation of federal law, a February 2025 internal memo from the firm Covington & Burling found, according to The New York Times.

The Post previously exposed other internal documents from the committee’s probe, showing the donation standards were made “more lenient” twice in the 2024 election year, in addition to previously lax card verification value rules for accepting contributions from credit, prepaid debit, or gift cards.

Steil, Comer and Jordan have since accused ActBlue of having “withheld materials responsive to the Committees’ subpoenas” for some records that were cited in the Times’ report.

On Monday, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued ActBlue, alleging “rampant donor fraud” based on the committees’ findings, New York Times report and determinations from investigators in his office who were able to make donations under fake identities.

“Not a single employee offered testimony that could help ensure that American elections are free, fair, and decided by Americans alone,” the committee’s report underscored.

“The crux of this misconduct is simple: ActBlue appears to have accepted illegal foreign donations en masse and tried to cover it up, lying to and withholding information from Congress in the process,” it added.

“It is not only the Committees that allege this—it is what ActBlue’s own outside lawyers found during a legal review of the platform’s fraud-prevention practices and statements to Congress.”

Reps for ActBlue didn’t immediately respond to the report.

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