WASHINGTON — ActBlue officials are being summoned to testify before House Republicans about potential “widespread” fraud on the massive Democratic fundraising platform, according to subpoena letters obtained by The Post — amid a parallel probe by President Trump’s Department of Justice.
A current ActBlue senior workflow specialist, who is unidentified, and former vice president of customer service Alyssa Twomey were sent the summonses on Wednesday from the GOP chairmen of the House Oversight, Judiciary and Administration committees, the letters show.
Both of the lefty officials had been prepared for voluntary interviews with the committee chairs before Trump authorized Attorney General Pam Bondi to investigate “the unlawful use of online fundraising platforms to make ‘straw’ or ‘dummy’ contributions.”
Danny Onorato, a lawyer for the ActBlue employees, swiftly responded with an appeal to “withdraw requests for transcribed interviews until the Department of Justice completes its investigation or clarifies its position with respect to our clients,” according to the letters.
The DOJ probe, first revealed in the pair of letters, had been requested by Trump in an executive order signed April 24, which mandated a report on the alleged ActBlue fraud within 180 days.
“Many congressional investigations have occurred in parallel to Executive Branch investigations of the same or related matters,” wrote Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) and Administration Chairman Bryan Steil (R-Wis.), pointing to court precedents.
The ActBlue lawyer’s request “amounts to a demand that the Committees forgo testimony that is potentially critical to our legislative oversight,” the GOP chairmen also said, accusing ActBlue of having “a fundamentally unserious approach to fraud prevention” in the last election cycle.
“Congress has a specific interest in ensuring that bad actors, including foreign actors, cannot make fraudulent or illegal political donations through online fundraising platforms.”
ActBlue signed off on “more lenient” standards during the 2024 campaign cycle, according to internal records previously obtained by The Post, which revealed hundreds of dubious contributions, including ones from “foreign IP” addresses.
The Dem fundraising juggernaut raked in donations from sources without requiring any card verification value (CVV) for transactions until January 2024, roughly halfway through the election cycle.
Standards implemented in the final campaign year still instructed ActBlue employees to “look for reasons to accept contributions.”
In total, ActBlue had 1,900 fraudulent transactions between September 2022 and November 2024, a March report from House Oversight and Administration Committee staff determined.
At least 237 prepaid cards were flagged from foreign IP addresses between September and October 2024, according to the documents.
“[D]espite repeated instances of fraudulent donations to Democrat campaigns and causes from domestic and foreign sources, ActBlue is not demonstrating a serious effort to deter fraud on its platform,” the 478-page report stated.
Lawyers for the fundraising platform maintained in a June 9 letter that the Republican committees’ “investigation has become something other than a legislative fact-gathering effort.”
“The Trump administration and GOP’s targeting of ActBlue is part of their brazen attack on democracy in America,” ActBlue also said in a statement in late April after Trump ordered the DOJ investigation.
ActBlue has funneled $16 billion to Democratic campaigns and causes since 2004.
The senior workflow specialist has been ordered to appear for testimony on July 14, and Twomey is to be deposed on July 23.
Reps for ActBlue and Onorato did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
