The Democrat Party’s main digital fundraising platform, ActBlue, has found itself once again the center of attention from Republican lawmakers who have some questions about the site’s shady operating practices.
As RedState reported back in October, not only had ActBlue’s questionable activities been flagged by the Committee on House Administration and its Republican chairman, Rep. Bryan Steil (R-WI), but it also was the subject of a letter signed by nineteen state attorneys general for facilitating a money-laundering scheme known as “smurfing.”
Smurfing is defined as “a money-laundering technique involving the structuring of large amounts of cash into multiple small transactions.”
If that wasn’t bad enough, ActBlue has now notified Congress that, until September of this year, they didn’t block donations made by foreign entities using gift cards. This…