House report finds Democrat-aligned fundraising giant facilitated widespread fraud, accepted foreign political donations

A bombshell congressional report is confirming that a major Democratic Party-aligned fundraising project likely violated federal law and knowingly allowed foreign entities to financially influence American elections.

The House Judiciary, Administration, and Oversight and Government Reform Committees published a 112-page report Sept. 16, concluding that political fundraising organization ActBlue failed to prevent illegal foreign political donations and that the organization’s leadership even instructed employees to accept the illegal donations.

According to the report, ActBlue supervisors instructed employees who flagged potentially illegal donations to “give the donor the benefit of the doubt” and to accept previously rejected donations because the organization “can’t say for sure that this is fraud.”

Documents obtained by the congressional committees, including whistleblower letters, email, and Slack messages, found that ActBlue supervisors ignored and instructed employees to ignore clear warning signs of fraud and illegal donations such as the use of prepaid credit and debit cards, billing and IP address mismatches, and even foreign credit cards.

In one instance, supervisors confirmed that ActBlue does not check or verify passport information to ensure that donations are coming from U.S. citizens, instead approving donations as long as the billing address was entered correctly.

“The donor is foreign, but correctly entered their billing address,” one ActBlue supervisor wrote in an internal message. “We can accept this type of donation and the campaign [receiving the donation] will verify their passport number.”

Another donor used data suggesting that he was a Canadian citizen and resident, but ActBlue approved the donation because, as one supervisor wrote, “Twitter seems to confirm that they are a real person.” Another clearly foreign-based donation was approved because the donor had a LinkedIn profile.

Further information found by the congressional committees confirmed that all of ActBlue’s legal team had either quit, citing the organization’s lax approach to fraud prevention, or been fired for raising concerns over fraud.

The last lawyer to leave, Zain Ahmad, was locked out of email account after warning ActBlue’s board of directors and executive committee of likely fraud. When he contacted IT via Slack to restore his email access, the IT department deleted his messages within minutes. One message, reading, “Please stop deleting my requests. You are violating the laws and policies of our company,” was deleted within five seconds.

ActBlue’s outside counsel and former Biden White House Counsel, Dana Remus, warned CEO Regina Wallace-Jones that the rampant fraud appeared “knowing and willful” and advised Wallace-Jones to seek a personal attorney. Remus and her firm were promptly fired.

“These new revelations build on the Committees’ previous findings regarding ActBlue’s lenient fraud-prevention policies,” the report says.

A 2025 congressional report found that ActBlue intentionally decided to take “a more lenient approach” to fraud detection and prevention in 2024, in a bid to increase the fundraising organization’s cash flow and repeat donations. Fraud prevention personnel were not trained to prevent fraud but were instructed to “look for reasons to accept contributions,” including accepting donations from credit cards with fake names.

Much of the information contained in the Sept. 16 report was previously withheld from Congress. Despite subpoenas, ActBlue leadership testified that the organization had provided Congress with all documents and information relevant to the fraud investigation.

“ActBlue’s decision to withhold this information materially impedes the Committees’ oversight,” the report says.

House Judiciary Chairman Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, said in a Sept. 16 interview that all 10 ActBlue personnel the committee has interviewed have asserted their Fifth Amendment rights and refused to testify.

“Every single one has taken the Fifth. Every one — 10 for 10. Now, that should tell you something like, ‘Oh, looks like we're on to something here. Looks like, in fact, they may have done something wrong,’” he said.

“This was this was an organization that was all about — focus on getting the money in to help Democrats, to help liberals win elections, and not doing the kind of fraud prevention things they should do,” he continued. “And then, to add insult to injury, they replied to Congress in a letter saying everything is fine, and their own outside counsel said, ‘Wait a minute, it looks like what you said to Congress was not accurate.’ That's a crime. You are not allowed to lie to the United States Congress. It looks like they did. I think that's why they're all taking the Fifth.”

According to Jordan, ActBlue has likely accepted roughly $48 million in illegal donations, which has been used to fund Democrats’ campaigns. He pledged to continue the investigation and refer ActBlue personnel to the Justice Department for criminal prosecution where relevant.

“We'll keep digging, and of course, the Justice Department is also looking into these guys because remember, this is the juggernaut, this is the fundraising machine for the left,” he said. “It's like billions of dollars they raise every single cycle.”