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| Congress demands anew Treasury provide access to Suspicious Activity Reports involving ActBlue |
| 2025-03-12 |
| [JustTheNews] New letter reveals Biden administration didn’t fully comply with requests involving Democrat online fundraising platform The Biden administration failed to fully comply with a demand to allow Congress to review Suspicious Activity Reports involving the massive Democrat online fundraising platform, prompting a fresh request Monday to the Trump Treasury Department, according to correspondence obtained by Just the News. House Oversight and Accountability Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., and House Administration Committee Chairman Bryan Steil, R-Wis., made the joint request to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessant seeking access to the SARs, which are required by federal law when banks suspect money laundering or other suspicious activity. The committees first sought the reports last fall, and Comer has said government officials told them there are hundreds of such reports. In their new letter, the chairmen revealed the Biden Treasury Department only let Congress see some of the reports. “Although the Biden Administration initially stalled the Committees’ requests in its entirety for months, on January 2, 2025, Treasury allowed the Committees to review only limited documents,” they wrote Bessant. “We write to request Treasury, in its commitment to transparency and cooperation, provide both Committees with the remaining records relevant to our investigations.” Congress along with numerous state attorneys generals began investigating ActBlue last election, citing concerns the massive fundraising online platform, which claims to have raised $2 billion for Democrats and liberal causes over the last two decades, had not until recently used security tools like the CVV number on the back of credit cards to ensure donor identities. The lawmakers told Bessant they were concerned that loose security might have led to abuses on the platform, including the flow of prohibited foreign monies into U.S. elections. “Our Committees are concerned that the failure to properly vet contributions made through online platforms may allow bad actors, including foreign nationals not lawfully admitted for permanent residence or individuals attempting to evade individual contribution limits, to more easily commit fraud to illegally exploit and violate federal campaign finance laws,” they wrote. For emphasis, they added the committees want to “guard against illicit foreign influence or other illegal activities in U.S. elections.” In a recent interview with the Just the News, No Noise television show, Comer indicated the “small fraction” of documents the committees was shown by the Biden Treasury Department only heightened lawmakers’ concerns and determination to get access to all records. “I think you are going to have a lot to report on ActBlue in the coming weeks,“ Comer said. Asked whether there is a foreign trail of money, he responded: “Absolutely.” Back in December, Steil told the Just the News, No Noise television show that Congress likely will refer ActBlue to the Trump Justice Department for possible investigation. “Once Pam Bondi comes in as attorney general under the Trump administration, we then have a partner at the United States Department of Justice to look at this, to do the investigation into bad actors, and to hold anyone who is engaged in this activity accountable,” he said. In October, Steil and Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson, a fellow Republican, wrote to then-Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, then-FBI Director Christopher Wray and then-Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines about concerns that four U.S. adversaries may have donated through the platform. “We write to you to raise an urgent concern regarding potential illicit election funding by foreign actors,” the lawmakers wrote. “CHA has been investigating claims that foreign actors, primarily from Iran, Russia, Venezuela, and China, may be using ActBlue to launder illicit money into U.S. political campaigns.” Related: ActBlue 03/11/2025 Multiple Democrat NGOs have coordinated attacks on Tesla dealerships, staff, and vehicles ActBlue 02/19/2025 James Carville tells Dems to ''play possum'' as nationwide protests rage against Trump ActBlue 01/16/2025 Virginia AG Miyares Ratchets Up Investigation Into American Muslims for Palestine, Files Petition To Enforce Document Request |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #8 the smurfing was done specifically to avoid SARs Which works beautifully until a bunch of programming geniuses white hats with AI embellishments start collating the records. Moments later, of course, it is entirely too late. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2025-03-12 23:12 |
| #7 2^ the smurfing was done specifically to avoid SARs if each of the smurfed donations to actblue was given to Congress, it would be in the millions of separate files |
| Posted by: Lord Garth 2025-03-12 13:15 |
| #6 EPA terminates Biden admin's green grants worth $20B, Zeldin says |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2025-03-12 09:04 |
| #5 'Back to basics': Top Trump agency turns tables on Biden-era memos pushing 'equity initiatives' |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2025-03-12 09:00 |
| #4 the awards were bogus and the money was going elsewhere |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2025-03-12 08:53 |
| #3 DOGE is shutting down dozens of questionable Biden Administration projects (contracts). "Shutting down" is good, but where is the contract and Contracting Officer's Representative that awarded these efforts ? * Were the contracts running in previous years ? * Where is the statement of work ? * What were the deliverables ? * To whom was the contract awarded ? Shutting down is fine, but there's likely more to the story.....unless the awards were bogus and the money was going elsewhere. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2025-03-12 08:13 |
| #2 ActBlue refined 'Surfing' into their largest method of foreign donor money laundering. Millions and millions of dollars split up into small bite-sized 'donations' from folks who were totally unaware that it was happening. |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2025-03-12 07:24 |
| #1 We are talking a Massive Liberal, Democrat rip off of $Billions here. When will we see arrests and the seizure of assets from those that milked the US Taxpayers? |
| Posted by: NN2N1 2025-03-12 06:22 |