Act Blue On the Hot Seat--FINALLY!

Whaddya know about that?  Act Blue is going under the microscope.  

Is this news?  YES!  Is it significant?  Probably.  So it is not covered by any SE Wisconsin news outlet.

A Wisconsin court decision is placing increasing scrutiny on ActBlue, a prominent Democratic fundraising platform. Waukesha County Circuit Court Judge Brad D. Schimel approved a subpoena directed at ActBlue, demanding explanations concerning GOP consultant Mark Block’s claims about unauthorized donations using his email identity. This legal action is part of a broader investigation coordinated by Congress and 19 state attorneys general.

Judge Schimel rejected ActBlue’s objections, which claimed compliance with the subpoena was overly burdensome. The court granted Block and his legal team from the America First Policy Institute (AFPI) permission to pursue discovery, aiming to uncover potential fraud tied to the unauthorized donations from his old email address linked to various liberal campaigns....

Act Blue created "smurfs."  A "smurf" is someone who is named as a contributor to a Democrat campaign, but who did NOT make a donation--exactly as Mark Block asserts.  Usually, "smurf donations" are in very small amounts--$2.XX, as an example.  Sometimes those fake "donors" contributed well into the five figures ($10K+++) to hundreds of Democrat campaigns all around the country.  The Evers campaign of 2018 had a boatload of them, as did the campaign of Abortion Protasciewicz.

Congress and 19 Attorneys General are looking into Act Blue.  But not Wisconsin "news" orgs.