Oh my, a terrible and unfortunate oversight. They must have forgotten to do that. Poor things; they're victims you know. They didn't know it was illegal money or anything. It was an accident!
Posted on 12/10/2024 9:25:21 PM PST by CFW
ActBlue, the massive online fund-raising platform for liberal causes, has informed Congress it did not automatically block donations made with foreign-bought gift cards until recently, a potentially significant revelation in an ongoing investigation into whether China, Russia, Iran or Venezuela routed illicit money to Democrat candidates.
House Administratrion Chairman Bryan Steil, R-Wis., whose panel oversees election integrity, told Just the News on Tuesday that ActBlue turned over documents under subpoena showing a major change in September to its donor verification policies designed to protect against illicit money flowing into political campaigns.
ActBlue disclosed that it updated its policies on Sept. 9 to “automatically reject donations that use foreign prepaid/gift cards, domestic gift cards, are from high-risk/sanctioned countries, and have the highest level of risk as determined,” by its solution provider, Sift.
The change occurred just three days after Steil introduced the Secure Handling of Internet Electronic Donations (SHIELD) Act on Sept. 6 to ensure foreign money stayed out of online political fundraising. Before the change, Steil said, donations made with foreign gift cards were not automatically rejected by ActBlue before the change.
(Excerpt) Read more at justthenews.com ...
There is no repercussions for corruption by politicians and the politically-connected, unless of course, you are connected to conservative American-First Patriots.
The Repubs should pound them. The Dims would never let the red side get away with this corruption that’s likely been occurring since Barry’s time.
ActBlue, the massive online fund-raising platform for liberal causes, now under investigation for FEC fraud, has informed Congress it did not automatically block donations made with foreign-bought gift cards until recently.
This is a potentially significant revelation in an ongoing investigation into whether China, Russia, Iran or Venezuela routed illicit money to fund Democrat candidates illegally.
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How your tax dollars land in politicians’ campaign pockets via “ActBlue.”
Reference: FEC data gathered by truthteller @OKeefeMedia linked one Democrat donor’s name to an astonishing “830 donations” to “ActBlue.” The Democrat donor monitors her bank statements, so she knew what she had actually donated, and was outraged, seeing her name falsified by ActBlue on federal documents.
How ActBlue pulls off massive fraudulent Democrat donations:
<><>they collude w/ politicians to setup federal money laundries, for example,
<><>Biden Lends Billions in “Climate Funds” Before Election
<><>Biden DHS gives Millions of tax dollars to “Sanctuary Cities,”
<><>Haiti gets billions in USAID
<><>Biden hands billions of tax dollars to Zelensky
<><>Biden-Harris give well over $1 billion in federal benefits to Haitian migrants
<><>then collusion puts a percentage of the “do-good” federal money in offshore bank deposits
<><>crooked legerdemain manipulates the deposits into the ActBlue data base,
<><>they then falsify FEC documents
<><>Actblue lists the money as having been “donated” by eligible donors,
<><>ActBlue does this without the knowledge or consent of the listed donors.
This is huge, and it points to ActBlue not validating any addresses or donors.
Fake ballots cost money.
Judge enforces subpoena against ActBlue, opening new front in Democrat fund-raising probe
Just the News ^ | 12/1/24 | John Solomon
Posted on 12/2/2024, 9:27:14 AM by CFW
For the first time, a Wisconsin court has approved a subpoena to the massive Democrat fund-raising platform ActBlue, saying it owes an explanation to a Republican whose email identity was used to make liberal donations he did not authorize. “Something is not right,” Waukesha County Circuit Court Judge Brad D. Schimel declared as he approved a limited demand for documents and opened a new front into a widening fund-raising probe begun earlier this year by Congress and 19 attorneys general.
Schimel rejected ActBlue’s arguments that it was onerous to require it to comply a subpoena for third-party donations it processed on its platform. The judge permitted GOP consultant Mark Block and his lawyers from America First Policy Institute to conduct discovery to determine if fraud was involved in the use of his identity to make dozens of Democrat donations on his old email address. “I get the argument that this is an assumption on plaintiff’s part that the donations are fraudulent,” the judge stated in a hearing Nov. 21. “There may be an element of fraud or maybe it is innocent. Plaintiff has set forth enough in their complaint and in support of their subpoena to demonstrate that there may be something here.”
You can read the full court transcript here. [link to filings] [snip]
The judge also noted that Block’s lawyers had submitted evidence from investigators of other people who are listed as giving donations to ActBlue who claim they did not make such contributions and questioned why the fundraising platform wouldn’t want to get to the bottom of the concerns.
“I don’t get why there is — why that is causing such substantial resistance to sharing it,” Schimel said of the data being sought by Block. (Excerpt) Read more at justthenews.com ...
cha.house.gov
1309 Longworth House Office Building
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Phone: 202-225-8281
October 29, 2024
Chairman Steil Demands Information from ActBlue
on Potential Foreign Influence in Campaign Funding
WASHINGTON - Today, Committee on House Administration Chairman Bryan Steil (WI-01) sent a letter to ActBlue, a major Democratic fundraising platform, demanding documents and information related to the platform’s donor verification policies and potential vulnerabilities that foreign actors may exploit to illegally participate in the U.S. political process. This follows an extensive Committee investigation into possible financial channels foreign actors may be utilizing to launder illicit money through U.S. political campaigns.
Excerpts from the letters read: “... I write today to demand information on ActBlue’s donor verification policies and the potential for foreign actors, primarily from Iran, Russia, Venezuela, and China, to use ActBlue to launder illicit money into U.S. political campaigns. Our investigation has indicated that these actors may be exploiting existing U.S. donors by making straw donations without the individuals’ or your platform’s knowledge.”
“... the Committee conducted a comprehensive data analysis, comparing over 200 million FEC donation records with data on age, party affiliation, number of donations, consumer purchasing power, and net worth. This study revealed several anomalies and mismatches in the FEC records, suggesting that foreign entities may be using these tactics to interfere with U.S. elections.”
“Given the critical importance of safeguarding the upcoming election, we strongly urge you to expedite the response to this inquiry. Immediate cooperation on this matter is essential to protect the integrity of our electoral system and to mitigate any risks posed by foreign actors attempting to interfere with the U.S. political process.”
Read the full letter at web site.
Background: On October 31, 2023, following reports that ActBlue was accepting political contributions without a card verification value (CVV), Chairman Steil sent a letter demanding answers on ActBlue’s practices, questioning if they are complying with federal campaign finance laws and preventing foreign and illegal contributions.
On November 27, 2023, ActBlue responded to Chairman Steil’s letter saying it did not require a CVV in order to contribute on their website.
On September 6, 2024, Chairman Steil introduced H.R. 9488, the Secure Handling of Internet Electronic Donations (SHIELD) Act. The legislation prohibits political committees from accepting an online contribution unless the contributor provides the CVV and billing address associated with the card and from accepting online contributions from prepaid cards. It also adopts a top legislative recommendation from the FEC to prohibit individuals from knowingly aiding or abetting a person making a contribution in the name of another person.
On September 11, 2024, the SHIELD Act passed the Committee on House Administration by a voice-vote.
On September 18, 2024, Chairman Steil sent letters to the Attorneys General from Texas, Virginia, Arkansas, Florida, and Missouri, updating them on the Committee’s investigation into ActBlue, a major democratic fundraising platform. Along with the letter, the Attorneys General received the data and evidence that the Committee has collected over the course of almost a year.
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I’m shocked /s
bttt
Taking illegal foreign campaign cash up till the last minute,and Kamala’s campaign is still 20 Million in the hole.
Just think what she would have done to our Country.
IIRC, when Obama was running for president all you needed was a valid CC number and exp date and the transaction would go thru to donate. This was not the first and won’t be the last.
The democrat party is a criminal enterprise.
<><><> Nothing new under the sun... <><><> freepersup
Politics • National Politics • Opinions
Court Concedes DNC Had the Right to Rig Primaries Against Sanders
The court affirmed that the DNC and Debbie Wasserman Schultz held a palpable bias in favor Hillary Clinton.
By Michael Sainato • 08/26/17 6:58am
<><><> There’s a high probability that Seth Rich discovered that Act Blue was siphoning donations away from Bernie Sanders by altering the Act Blue url addresses, fooling donors into thinking that they were donating to Bernie Sanders campaign, when the reality was that the funds were siphoned off and passed on to Hillary Clinton’s campaign. It’s the most likely reason why he got murdered. That, and revealing the steal to Wikileaks and Julian Assange, by handing off a thumb drive that downloaded the proof, with forensic evidence that proved the download rate had to come from someone on the inside with access to the DNC computers, and not from any outside hack like Guccifer. <><><> freepersup
Hat tip to George Webb and his cadre of sleuths...
BTTT
DEM corruption has a thousand faces.
ActBlue is yet another sprouting off the old ACORN (that prior hothouse garden of fraud that was supposedly put asunder by Federal Court order some two decades ago).
btt
Law enforcement has enough on act blue to lock a bunch of them up for years. I hope that the New DOJ follows through on that.
But, but, our elections are safe.
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