Overview
- A joint interim staff report from three House committees asserts that ActBlue’s passport verification never validated entries against government databases and only checked that numbers had the right length.
- Committee documents cite internal logs showing supervisors told staff to accept donations despite red flags such as foreign IP addresses, IP/billing mismatches, and odd email domains.
- ActBlue’s CEO Regina Wallace-Jones repeatedly invoked the Fifth Amendment during compelled testimony, and several in-house lawyers departed after raising compliance concerns, the committees say.
- ActBlue rejects the allegations and points to a WilmerHale review and a third-party forensic analysis that characterized foreign contributions as vanishingly rare and defended the platform’s practices.
- Republican investigators say the probe will continue with more subpoenas, depositions and document demands, and the dispute could lead to further litigation and calls for tighter rules on online small‑donation verification.