(…) Jones was called to testify at a hearing titled “Preventing Fraudulent Donations: Transparency, Verification, and Accountability” after she was informed by her attorneys that she may have misled Congress in a 2023 letter to Congress about ActBlue’s vetting of foreign donations.
The Gateway Pundit has reported extensively on the dark-money Democrat donation platform and its policies that allow foreign money to be pumped into Democratic candidates. One of the tactics used to make fraudulent donations is through unsuspecting individuals or ActBlue “smurfs,” whose personal information is used to make donations without their knowledge.
During the hearing, Wallace-Jones refused to answer a single question, pleading the Fifth 22 times.
The following questions were asked by House Administration Committee Bryan Steil:
- In 2023, I sent you this letter with five straightforward questions with a goal of confirming that foreign funds are not in our elections and that ACT Blue had adequate fraud prevention measures in place. You replied a month later with a four-page letter describing your fraud prevention policies and procedures that you had in place at ActBlue. But according to the New York Times, your response to this committee may have been false and misleading. When you signed this letter to me, did you believe that this letter was false and misleading?
- Before you sent this letter, was it brought to your attention that this letter that you sent me was false and misleading?
- According to the New York Times, you’ve been aware for quite a while that the response you made was likely false or misleading. Did you ever consider correcting the record for this committee when it was brought to your attention that your letter to me was false and misleading?
- Your letter claimed that passport information is required from donors providing an address outside the United States. In November 2023, when you wrote that letter, did every ActBlue donation provided an address outside the United States require passport information?
- Your letter also claimed that ActBlue would contact a donor to request passport information if the contribution appeared to be from a foreign address, and you told this committee that the contribution would be refunded if ActBlue was unable to make contact with the donor. Is that correct?
- We have reason to believe that your letter in 2023 was not correct because, according to the New York Times, donations that were made through third party apps like PayPal or Venmo, passport information was not always required. So, what’s true? The 2023 letter you sent me or the New York Times article?
- After you sent me the 2023 letter. ActBlue weakened its fraud prevention rules twice in 2024, quote, ‘even after internal assessments confirmed that these policy changes would lead to more fraudulent donations,’ End quote. Did you weaken fraud prevention standards to increase donations on the ACL blue platform?
- You’ve been asked legitimate questions that are intended to elicit information the committee has the right to have to aid our inquiry. You’ve refused to answer the questions. Are you formally asserting your Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination today?
Wallace-Jones further stonewalled House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) and Rep. Greg Murphy (R-NC), refusing to answer the following.
- Your board chairman said ActBlue accepted up to 38 million contributions in 2024 that had the signs of foreign origin. How much fraud is too much fraud?
- How many foreign contributions did ActBlue accept?
- How much money did ActBlue accept from Russia?
- Why did your entire legal team quit, your in-house legal team?
- Did your legal team quit because of reduced fraud standards?
- Did you weaken your fraud standards to help Democrats?
- Do you regret any of the things that you said or any of the things that ActBlue has done in the past in regards to foreign donations?
- If you had the chance to pick another place to be employed, would you have joined ActBlue?