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ActBlue Probes May Shut Down DNC Money Laundry

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Posted By: gaboy, 3/10/2025 3:20:16 AM

Before the recent election, the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability asked then-Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen to turn over all Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) relating to ActBlue — not much happened. An SAR is a document that banks file with the Treasury Department pursuant to potentially fraudulent or illicit financial activity. Yellen stalled, presumably in the hope that the Democrats would win the House back in November and halt the investigation. That obviously didn’t happen and the new Secretary of the Treasury, Scott Bessent, is of course cooperating with the committee.This may well be what precipitated the sudden departure of seven senior officials from ActBlue in February.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: 5 handicap 3/10/2025 5:57:40 AM (No. 1912037)
Yellen has NEVER been more than an incompetent HACK who does whatever political garbage the America-hating Democrats want, not what's good for the country unless they accidently coinside.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: downnout 3/10/2025 7:59:18 AM (No. 1912089)
Between ActBlue and USAID the left was living very high on their hog.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: snowoutlaw 3/10/2025 9:44:55 AM (No. 1912165)
ActBlue will just rebrand to something like Acorn, except that was their old name.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: DVC 3/10/2025 11:18:27 AM (No. 1912243)
"Billions" of small donors? Sorry, if every single living person in the USA donated to these fraudsters, that would be 1/3 of one billion. And I can guarantee that not every man, woman and child sent in a check. FRAUD, for certain. Now, get in there, audit their books and arrest people, send them to prison.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: greggojo 3/10/2025 12:14:57 PM (No. 1912277)
In 2008 (Obama's first candidacy) huge numbers of donations were being made using prepaid credit cards, i.e. no bank information etc. required. iirc, donations were reported to have been made from foreign IPs. Republicans reported this to the FEC who chose not to investigate. Subsequently, Act Blue began processing donations without requiring the CVV code to be entered. And, James O'Keefe then discovered that thousands of donations were being made ascribed to American citizens who claimed to have never made them. Now that Act Blue is apparently falling apart, another organization is said to be all ready to step right in to take over donations to Democrats. The grift never ends.
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