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🚨NEW REPORT: ACTBLUE EMPLOYEES TAKE THE FIFTH WHEN ASKED ABOUT FOREIGN FRAUD AND WHISTLEBLOWER RETALIATION AT THE DEMOCRAT DONATION PLATFORM

🧵THREAD:

@JudiciaryGOP, @GOPoversight, and @HouseAdmin have been investigating fraud on ActBlue and the potential for foreign interference in our elections.

Last year, we found that ActBlue, the left’s leading online fundraising platform, weakened its fraud-prevention standards ahead of the 2024 election—even as the company knew about significant attempted fraud on the platform.

Read more here: x.com/JudiciaryGOP/s…

New reporting has confirmed our findings: ActBlue accepts illegal foreign donations en masse.

ActBlue tried to cover this up by misleading and withholding documents from Congress.

But it didn’t work.

The Committees deposed five ActBlue employees, including top staff responsible for fraud prevention, to learn more about the platform’s acceptance of illegal donations—and the subsequent cover-up.

In total, we asked them 146 questions.

They refused to answer a single one, invoking their Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination every time.

These weren’t hard questions. Just take a look:

The Committees sought testimony from ActBlue employees to ensure that American elections are free, fair, and decided by Americans alone.

Instead, they all refused to answer basic questions.

But that’s not all.

New internal ActBlue documents, disclosed for the first time, show that after these allegations of fraud and misconduct rocked the platform in early 2025, every member of ActBlue’s legal and compliance team quit, was fired, or went on extended leave.

It started in November 2024, when ActBlue fired General Counsel Darrin Hurwitz. He received a generous severance package and promised that he would “cooperate with ActBlue . . . in connection with any current or future investigation”—including ours.

After Hurwitz’s departure, Aaron Ting—who previously advised ActBlue’s fraud-prevention team—became the interim “head of legal” and was offered the full-time job.

Instead, he left ActBlue.

Ting’s resignation letter—which ActBlue continues to improperly withhold from the Committees—stated that he was leaving because ActBlue leadership refused to address grave “concerns” about its “past practices for screening political donations from abroad and its past representations to Congress regarding foreign donations and related matters.”

After Ting quit in February 2025, Zain Ahmad was the only lawyer left at ActBlue, reporting directly to CEO Regina Wallace-Jones.

In one of his first acts, he forwarded information about ActBlue and Wallace-Jones’s misconduct to the Board of Directors.

Later that day, Ahmad went on a suspicious leave of absence and was locked out of his email in violation of company policy.

In an internal message that has been withheld from the Committees, Ahmad alleged that he was being retaliated against for making a whistleblower claim.

One ActBlue employee quickly called it “blatant retaliation” against Ahmad.

She told Candace King, ActBlue’s top HR official, that the “situation [was] sad” and “people are outraged.”

King eventually relented and let Ahmad back into his accounts, on one condition: she could spy on Ahmad’s emails and keep the cover-up intact.

With no lawyers on staff, ActBlue’s compliance team would have to pick up the slack.

Instead, the day after Ahmad went on leave, Director of Compliance Eric Hoke “either quit . . . or was fired” after more than 12 years at the company.

One staffer said Hoke’s departure was likely because “the whole department [was] falling apart.”

ActBlue’s last legal and compliance staffer—a junior analyst—left a week later.

Within just a few weeks, ActBlue’s legal and compliance teams were gutted.

ActBlue’s union wrote to the board, complaining that “our internal compliance function is now substantially weakened” and employees “do not have clear direction on how to proceed with our work” in the absence of legal oversight.

ActBlue couldn’t comply with federal campaign finance law when it had a full legal and compliance staff. It’s unclear how it could have done so without a single legal or compliance employee.

Add it all up, and the story is simple:

ActBlue accepted illegal foreign donations, misrepresented its fraud-prevention practices to Congress, and withheld documents responsive to the Committees’ subpoenas.

All three of those are federal crimes.

We sought answers from the ActBlue compliance and legal team employees. But these employees took the fifth a grand total of 146 times.

We’ll continue to work to for Americans to protect the integrity of our elections.

Read our full interim staff report here: judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subs…