INVESTIGATINGGovernmentInternal Covington & Burling memos show ActBlue lawyers warned CEO Regina Wallace-Jones her statements to Congress about foreign donor vetting were misleading. She testified anyway. 22 'significant fraud campaigns' detected internally.
“Internal Covington & Burling memos show ActBlue lawyers warned CEO Regina Wallace-Jones her statements to Congress about foreign donor vetting were misleading. She testified anyway. 22 'significant fraud campaigns' detected internally.”
Internal memos from Covington & Burling — one of America's most prestigious law firms — warned ActBlue CEO Regina Wallace-Jones that her prepared statements to Congress about the organization's foreign donor vetting were misleading. She testified anyway. Under oath.
ActBlue's own outside counsel reviewed her congressional testimony in advance and flagged specific statements as inaccurate or misleading. The lawyers documented their concerns in writing. The CEO had written evidence that her testimony would be misleading — and she delivered it anyway.
Internally, ActBlue detected 22 "significant fraud campaigns" — half with connections to foreign sources. The organization's own fraud detection systems identified the problem. The CEO's testimony to Congress downplayed or omitted these findings.
The central question: is ActBlue accepting foreign donations in violation of federal election law? The internal memos and fraud detection data suggest the organization knew about foreign money flowing through its platform. The CEO's testimony to Congress suggested otherwise.
If ActBlue's CEO testified under oath with statements her own lawyers warned were misleading, that's potential perjury before Congress. If ActBlue accepted foreign donations while claiming it didn't, that's a federal campaign finance violation. If 22 fraud campaigns with foreign connections were detected and unreported, the scale of the problem is significant.
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