Exclusive | GOP panel demands Treasury records on potentially fraudulent donations through Democratic fundraising platform

A Republican-led House committee fired off a letter to the Treasury Department on Friday that demanded access to any Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) as part of a new investigation into a Democratic fundraising platform’s “potentially fraudulent” donations.House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) wrote to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, asking for all SARs between Jan.1, 2023, and the present that involve the political action committee ActBlue.The suspicious activities may include “money laundering, counterfeit credit/debit card, credit card or debit card fraud, false statements, wire transfer fraud, or identity theft,” Comer said.“Federal law prohibits contributions made in the name of another person, and for good reason,” Comer told Yellen.“The Committee is concerned that failure to properly vet contributions made through online platforms may have allowed bad actors to more easily commit fraud to illegally exploit and violate federal campaign finance laws.”The House Administration Committee had already been probing ActBlue following reports and a slew of lawsuits brought by GOP states against the Democratic fundraising giant for allegedly accepting massive amounts of contributions from donors who were entirely unaware they were giving money.“In Virginia, reports of contribution activity facilitated through the ActBlue platform included ‘some cases in which single donors made tens of thousands of separate donations worth hundreds of thousands of dollars,'” Comer claimed, citing a report in the Washington Examiner.The attorneys general of Missouri, Wyoming and Texas have also been probing the “dummy” accounts.The Democratic fundraising juggernaut opened itself up to potential fraud by not requiring Card Verification Value (CVV) for online transactions with debit or credit cards — before recently reversing course.The lack of safeguards may have even allowed foreign nationals through gift cards or prepaid debit cards to ...