In order to expand their investigation into possible illegal foreign funding in the 2024 election, home investigators have officially subpoenaed the Democratic donations system ActBlue. The Treasury Department’s confirmation to Congress that its money laundering monitoring system had produced hundreds of suspicious activity reviews related to the website fund-raising ghetto was the subject of the subpoena.
House Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer wrote acquaintances in a private letter on Tuesday night, writing that the Treasury is currently reviewing hundreds of possible flexible records despite the lack of any records that the Committee and Treasury have made at the time of the original ask.
According to the Comer committee’s letter obtained by Just the News and first reported by The New York Post, House Administration Committee Chairman Bryan Steil and Senator Ron Johnson, R-Wis., recently requested access to suspicious activity reports ( SARs ) filed by financial institutions regarding money flowing through ActBlue.
Only the News adds that Steil’s committee on Wednesday evening sent a summons to ActBlue demanding that the large fund-raising system change over records on how it confirms donors ‘ identities and ensures no fraud or money laundering occurs with contributions going to Democrat candidates and parties as Comer’s team awaited a review of the Influenza.
” The Committee is compelling, via the attached summons, the production of documents and communications related to , ActBlue’s donor identification policies and the potential for international actors, primarily from Iran, Russia, Venezuela, and China, to use ActBlue to dirty illicit money into U. S. social campaigns”, Steil wrote in the text to ActBlue CEO Regina-Wallace Jones.
The GOP lawmakers have requested from Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, FBI Director Christopher Wray, and Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines to give them access to any suspicious activity reports ( SARs ) filed by American financial institutions as part of their money-laundering monitoring activities.
” We request that the Department make available to CHA and PSI staff all Suspicious Activity Reports (” SARs” ) related to ActBlue, specifically regarding fraud, money laundering, identity theft, and the use of prepaid credit, debit, and gift cards in this context”, theJohnson and Steil wrote last week.
Additionally, it requested information from U.S. intelligence and the FBI regarding possible foreign money laundering in the election.
