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Anonymous ID: 956882 April 3, 2026, 6:55 p.m. No.24462190   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2556 >>2743

Acting AG Todd Blanche: Investigating ActBlue Allegations Is A Top Priority

 

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/acting-ag-todd-blanche-investigating-actblue-allegations-top-priority

 

The New York Times reported on Thursday that ActBlue’s own lawyers had warned its leadership in early 2025 that it may have lied to Congress about how it screens out illegal foreign donations.

 

In 2023, ActBlue CEO Regina Wallace-Jones sent a letter to Republican congressional investigators assuring them the platform used rigorous safeguards. The letter described "multilayered" screenings that helped "root out" overseas contributions. What the platform's own legal team later discovered was considerably more inconvenient: those protections weren't consistently applied in practice.

 

“This presents a substantial risk for ActBlue,” the law firm, Covington & Burling, wrote in one of two memos expressing legal concerns. One memo raised the specter of a criminal investigation if prosecutors believed that ActBlue had tried to conceal facts about its efforts to prevent foreign contributions.

 

Federal election law prohibits foreign citizens or people who are not permanent residents from donating directly to federal candidates or political action committees. Lying to or obstructing Congress is a crime.

 

The memos instigated a meltdown at the highest levels of ActBlue, one of the Democratic Party’s most vital financial organs.

 

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, freshly installed at the helm of the DOJ after Pam Bondi's departure, went on Jesse Watters' Fox News show Thursday and left little ambiguity about where this investigation stands.

 

“I can tell you that that is a priority of this administration and this Department of Justice,” Blanche said. “And it's something that a lot of people have been worried about it for a very long time. And you should rest assured that it includes the Department of Justice, and it includes me."