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GOP Attorneys General Begin Legal Action Against Democrat Fundraising Operation

By Updated: GOVERNMENT

Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares is one of a number of Republican AGs vowing to open investigations into potential fraudulent donations made to the Democratic Party’s candidates via the platform ActBlue. Miyares has already sent a letter to ActBlue, demanding that the group answer questions concerning election integrity. The letter is part of Miyares’ probe into the Democratic donation platform, which has listed thousands of donations registered under names and identities that he believes could be fraudulent.

“My office has become aware of multiple serious allegations that ActBlue, ActBlue Civics, Inc., and ActBlue Charities, Inc. have engaged in fraudulent, deceptive, and/or otherwise illegal activities in the Commonwealth of Virginia and/or have aided and abetted others in doing so,” the AG’s letter begins.



“This includes hundreds of thousands of dollars of contributions through individual donors in the Commonwealth in volumes that are facially implausible and appear suspicious. Some of these Virginia donors are reported as making multiple daily contributions over the course of multiple years, amounting to tens of thousands of dollars in aggregate,” the letter continued.

Miyares has discovered that many individuals listed as making large donations are senior citizens who identify their occupation as “not employed” or “retired” and provide addresses that seem dubious. The attorney general suggests that this pattern points to the possibility that some of the contributions to ActBlue were made by “fictional” donors or dummy accounts. “AG Jason Miyares posted in response to Charlie Kirk flagging a donation anomaly in Virginia where a 79-year-old resident living in an apartment at $2,000 per month made 22,619 separate donations since 2019, totaling more than $800,000,” The Post Millennial reported.

“My office is aware of these allegations and rest assured, we are looking into it,” the AG went on to say in a post on X. Kirk said in his original comment, “It’s trivially easy to find massive, repeated donations to ActBlue that use stolen identities and, quite possibly, stolen credit cards.” He then added, “For example, one person in Virginia has been named in 22,619 separate donations since 2019, totaling more than $800,000. Obviously, she’s being exploited for some kind of money-laundering operation. ActBlue raises from all fifty states. We have fifty state AGs. When will one of them take action?”

Kirk also highlighted a social media post from NOVA Campaigns revealing that Kerry Alberti, 79, was allegedly making donations amounting to thousands of dollars annually. NOVA described these donations as “utter fraud [ID theft] via ActBlue.” The Democrat-affiliated group has been scrutinized in multiple investigations by the O’Keefe Media Group, which found that individuals on fixed incomes had their names used for numerous donations they could not afford, all directed toward Democratic causes.

In response to the flood of allegations, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey also vowed to investigate. “My team is looking into the disturbing allegations surrounding ActBlue,” Bailey wrote in an X post on Wednesday. “More to come.”

In Wyoming, Secretary of State Chuck Gray announced that his office will also be opening an investigation. “In the wake of nationwide money laundering and identity theft allegations against Democratic fundraising organization ActBlue, Secretary of State Chuck Gray announced an investigation into ActBlue Wyoming, a political action committee registered with the Wyoming Secretary of State’s Office. ActBlue has been accused of stealing peoples’ identities to conceal illegal donations, such as donations from foreign actors. As the chief election officer for the State of Wyoming, Secretary Gray is tasked with ensuring the integrity of Wyoming elections,” Gray wrote in a press release.

“The widespread allegations against ActBlue are deeply troubling, and we must ensure that political action committees are following the Wyoming Election Code,” Secretary Gray said in a statement. “Claiming that a person donated to a PAC if that person never donated to that PAC would be a felony under Wyoming law. I am very concerned, and remain committed to a thorough review of contributions to ensure compliance with Wyoming law.”





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