ActBlues shady donor setup draws fed scrutiny time for a full-on reckoning

Finally: Dem donation mega-website Act Blue is under the magnifying glass by the Treasury Department for apparently shady behavior.The move — reported by Rep.Jim Comer (R-Ky.), the House Oversight bloodhound chasing political corruption to the left’s chagrin — includes hundreds of transactions linked to the platform. Good news.Trouble is, that’s only a fraction of the actual potential funny business here. For years, congressional GOPers like Florida Sen.

Marco Rubio have been on ActBlue’s case after it emerged that people whose names and addresses were linked to thousands of donations a year had no idea they’d been giving at all.This includes senior citizens, prime patsies for use in an unknowing straw donor scheme (which all this very obviously is, no matter what the Treasury Department says). The attorneys general of Virginia, Missouri, Wyoming and Texas are all looking at worrying reports following a similar pattern: Single “donors” pumping money to Dems at suspicious volumes and frequencies.  Morning Report and Evening Update: Your source for today's top stories Please provide a valid email address.By clicking above you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.

Never miss a story.And this is by design.ActBlue (though it eventually reversed course) for a long stretch allowed donations to go through without CVV numbers, the three-digit combos on the back of cards required in most digital transactions. That “oopsie” makes it easier to, say, use someone else’s credit card and ID to funnel beaucoup bucks to Democrats and flout any and all election law around campaign contributions. Heck, it could even allow foreign nationals to donate — and that’s a federal crime. One that seems almost certain to have happened. The House Administration Committee has found evidence suggesting ActBlue may have let through donations from Iran, Russia, China and Venezuela, a...