A congressional investigation into whether Democrats have been using the ActBlue online donation platform to cheat at fund-raising has expanded into possible foreign funding as House and Senate investigators join forces to demand the Biden administration provide them access to classified intelligence and secret money-laundering reports filed by banks.
“We write to you to raise an urgent concern regarding potential illicit election funding by foreign actors,” the lawmakers wrote Yellen in a letter dated Thursday.
In bombshell letters to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, FBI Director Christopher Wray and Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines obtained by Just the News, House Administration Committee (HCA) Chairman Bryan Steil, R-Wis., and Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., revealed that Congress is probing whether four specific foreign adversaries have routed money to Democratic Party campaigns during the 2024 election.
“CHA has been investigating claims that foreign actors, primarily from Iran, Russia, Venezuela, and China, may be using ActBlue to launder illicit money into U.S. political campaigns.
Act Blue responded by calling O'Keefe's videos "disinformation."
It also requested classified briefings on possible foreign money laundering into the election from U.S. intelligence and the FBI.
“This failure to verify donor identity may have allowed foreign actors to fraudulently participate in the political process in the U.S.” Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton revealed ActBlue made a similar revelation to his investigators and that the online fundraising platform agreed to do so going forward, at least for donations gathered in Texas.
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