ActBlue Accused of Massive, Multi-State Campaign Money-Laundering Scheme

The Democrat fundraising giant ActBlue appears to be laundering millions of dollars of campaign donations through small donors in an attempt to cover up illegal contributions, according to the investigative work of O’Keefe Media Group (OMG), Election Watch, and other independent journalists.

O’Keefe, who started OMG after parting ways with Project Veritas, knocked on some doors in Maryland and talked to a number of elderly Democrat donors who, according to FEC records, had made suspiciously large and frequent donations to Joe Biden and other Democrats.

“FEC data shows that some senior citizens across the U.S. have been donating thousands of times per year,” O’Keefe explained. “Some of these individuals’ names and addresses are attached to over $200,000 in contributions.” The unwitting victims in the alleged multi-state money-laundering scheme have been dubbed “smurfs.”

According to O’Keefe, the records show that one Annapolis smurf donated $217,000 to ActBlue in 12,000 separate contributions over a three year period, indicting he made multiple donations per day during that time period.

“We’re wondering if these donors are victims of what appears to be a money-laundering scheme, or these residents actually participated in the scheme,” O’Keefe said.

One donor told him he wasn’t aware that he had made 3,000 contributions totaling $32,000, but seemed to blame former President Donald Trump for the mix-up. “Hit him with a bat,” the man said. “Right over the head.”

O’Keefe also confronted a woman who had allegedly donated $18,850 through a total of 1,000 donations.

“Once in a while I donate $5.00 or so dollars or something like that,” the woman told O’Keefe.

“What about $18,850?” O’Keefe asked.

“I doubt that,” the woman replied.

“Not that many donations?” he asked.

“No, I don’t think so,” she responded. “I wish I could have donated $18,000 to Biden’s presidency.”

A man that reportedly donated $230,155 said “no way” when asked about this amount.

“It appears that someone else may be committing a crime using your address,” O’Keefe said.

“Do you think you can find some of these individuals.” the man asked.

“That’s what I do,” O’Keefe replied.

O’Keefe spoke with several other purportedly large donors in the area and every one of them denied making anything but small donations.

Let’s recap: Through publicly available records, it was discovered that Maryland voters had excessive amounts of donations made in their names.

We confirmed that they did NOT make these high volume contributions #FollowTheMoneypic.twitter.com/7BONDTqLIh

— James O’Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) March 29, 2023

American Spectator reporter Scott McKay investigated potential ActBlue money-laundering in Louisiana.

“It took us no time at all to find a New Orleans resident named Cornelius Maneaux who’s listed as ‘not employed’ but nevertheless donated to ActBlue some 847 times between January 4, 2021 and December 31, 2022 in amounts ranging from $1 to $100 for a total of $18,276.54,” McKay reported.

The reporter posted a picture of Maneaux’s home to demonstrate the unlikelihood that the unemployed Maneaux had the funds to make 847 campaign donations in a two year period to ActBlue totaling nearly $20,000.

“Maneaux’s house is the one on the right — and yes, that’s the one with the homeless-bum-looking guy hanging out on the front stoop,” McKay noted.  We have no idea if that’s Maneaux, but it wouldn’t be much of a surprise if it was, seeing as he lives at that address and he’s listed as “not employed” on those campaign contribution forms.

Citizen journalists from Southern California also conducted their own investigation using the publicly available FEC data, and quickly found many residents who denied making the excessive political donations attributed to them.

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