Peter D’Abrosca, reporter at The Tennessee Star, said the Biden administration’s Department of Justice (DOJ) appears not to be interested in investigating ActBlue, the online fundraising platform for Democratic candidates, for alleged fraudulent activity.
On Monday, D’Abrosca exclusively reported that ActBlue reported to campaign finance authorities that seven Tennesseans “donated” to the online platform more than 1,000 times since the beginning of 2023.
D’Abrosca, on Monday’s edition of The Michael Patrick Leahy Show, explained how ActBlue is a Political Action Committee (PAC), or a “catch-all” for donations of the Democratic Party.
“ActBlue is a PAC. It’s a catch-all for donations for the Democratic Party. So if you donate your money to ActBlue, you’re basically entrusting them to give it to Democratic causes whether it’s other PACs who support Democrats or other PACs who attack Republicans, individual candidates themselves, or PACs for individual candidates themselves, and so on and so forth. ActBlue acts as that catch-all and all the money that comes in there gets earmarked for one project or another,” D’Abrosca said.
D’Abrosca added that most ActBlue donations are currently going toward the 2024 Harris-Walz campaign.
One individual D’Abrosca identified as one of the seven “donors” from Tennessee listed to have given to ActBlue included a 68-year-old, unemployed woman who lives in Nashville named Margaret Maher.
According to D’Abrosca’s report, Maher has given nearly $33,000 to ActBlue through 4,200 individual donations over the past 20 months, which equals just over seven donations of approximately $8 each per day.
D’Abrosca noted in his report that Maher was “the second-largest donor to the Stop GOP Governors PAC this year,” “with or without her knowledge.”
Noting the unlikelihood that Maher knowingly made such donations, D’Abrosca wondered if the Nashville woman was aware that her identity may have been stolen to make such donations in what he described as “money laundering.”
“I’m not sure if she knows – and what I suppose is happening – that her identity is being stolen. So perhaps she donated to ActBlue one or two times, and then they’re using her identity for money laundering. That’s what I think,” D’Abrosca said.
When he attempted to contact the seven Tennesseans listed as having made large amounts of donations to ActBlue, D’Abrosca said all seven telephone numbers listed for the individuals were disconnected.
D’Abrosca also pointed out how all seven of the apparent victims are elderly, with a majority over 70 years old.
D’Abrosca said the DOJ appears to have no interest in launching a formal investigation into the apparent fraud committed because the crimes benefit Democrats.
“If the Justice Department was interested in looking into Democrats in any way, the investigation would be well underway by now. This isn’t brand new. James O’Keefe did a discovery on this, an investigation on this probably a year and a half ago now. He calls it smurfing, smurfing of donations. He hasn’t, as far as I know, listed any names, which we’re going to do when this report comes out,” D’Abrosca said
“There’s some speculation that the way this works is that ActBlue doesn’t require a CVV code, the three digit code on the back of your credit card. That’s inputted when you donate to ActBlue. Now, as far as I know, everything I’ve ever purchased on the internet or done on the internet has required me to put that CVV code in. So the operating theory is that somehow, from wherever these donations are coming from – whether it’s foreign or domestic or whatever – they’re purchasing prepaid credit cards and then just stealing people’s identities. Since you don’t need a CVV code that a prepaid debit card doesn’t have, they’re using these cards to funnel the money into ActBlue,” D’Abrosca added.
D’Abrosca added that he believes the apparent fraud could have been coordinated by State Department personnel in an effort to help Kamala Harris win the election and become president.
“My sense is that this is like an Intel operation. Foreign governments working with maybe the DNC, although I think it would be higher level than the DNC…[It] could go all the way to the State Department. You have to think about who wants Kamala Harris to be president. Who has the biggest, the greatest financial incentive or any incentive for Kamala to be president? That to me screams like the deep state,” D’Abrosca added.
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Kaitlin Housler is a reporter at The Tennessee Star and The Star News Network. Follow Kaitlin on X / Twitter.
