Elise Stefanik@EliseStefanik
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This ActBlue investigation is among the biggest bombshell campaign finance corruption and actual foreign election interference stories in American politics.
And it was all so publicly obvious, with many urging the media to look into this, but until recently, the media refused to cover it.
A must read from (surprisingly!) @nytimes @ShaneGoldmacher @reidepstein
“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….
It can be alleged that ActBlue accepted and/or facilitated the acceptance of foreign-national contributions into American elections,” one memo states. “In addition, because ActBlue’s staff was aware that its system was not as robust as necessary, it could be alleged that these violations were ‘knowing and willful,’ a standard that both increases the penalties the F.E.C. might seek and gives the Justice Department jurisdiction for a potential criminal investigation.”
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nytimes.com/2026/04/02/us/…
