This story was originally published by the WND News Center.
The House Judiciary Committee has issued subpoenas to require testimony from former executives of the Democrat fundraising scheme Act Blue, which has raised billions of dollars for leftists over recent years.
The investigation focuses on allegations of fraud within that organization, which evidence already has shown sometimes took in hundreds of thousands of dollars from individuals making thousands of separate donations – even though they were senior citizens on fixed incomes.
The congressional committee confirmed that chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, was joined by House Administration Committee Chairman Bryan Steil, R-Wis., and House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., to send subpoenas to ActBlue's Former Vice President of Customer Service Alyssa Twomey and an ActBlue Senior Workflow Specialist.
The documents order their appearances before the committees for depositions.
Suspected is that ActBlue took in fraudulent donations from domestic and foreign sources.
Twomey, formerly ActBlue's vice president of customer service, managed ActBlue's fraud-prevention team, the committee said.
"The Committees discovered that ActBlue weakened its fraud-prevention standards twice in 2024 despite knowledge of significant attempted fraud on the platform, including from foreign actors. Similarly, ActBlue's training guide for new fraud-prevention staff instructed employees to 'look for reasons to accept contributions' rather than assess potentially fraudulent donations with a skeptical eye," the committees announced.
The members of Congress told Twomey, "You are uniquely positioned to aid the Committees' oversight."
The letter explained Congress repeatedly has sought her voluntary testimony on the issues, but she, through attorney Danny Onorato, had insisted that Congress delay its investigation.
She was scolded for that.
"Onorato's request that the Committees 'withdraw [our] requests for transcribed interviews until the Department of Justice completes its investigation or clarifies its position with respect to our clients' amounts to a demand that the Committees forgo testimony that is potentially critical to our legislative oversight," the letter charged.
"Congress may set the terms of its own oversight, compelling testimony in a time, place, and manner of its own choosing. Federal courts have consistently held that witnesses may not 'impose [their] own conditions upon the manner of [congressional] inquiry.' That is because 'a witness does not have the legal right to dictate the conditions under which he will or will not testify' or 'to prescribe the conditions under which he may be interrogated by Congress.'"
"Mr. Onorato is wrong to claim that 'the Committees will not be prejudiced in any way' by his request to delay your testimony 'because President Trump directed that the Attorney General report the results of her investigation . . . within 180 days.'"
Such a demand, in fact, "risks preventing the Committees from adequately developing the factual record upon which to consider legislative reforms."
WND previously has reported on the scandal now enveloping ActBlue.
The committees are looking at accusations some of those donations have come in, illegally, from overseas sources.
During Joe Biden's time in office, the same committees called for information, but there was no response.
At the time, they demanded access to "Suspicious Activity Reports" related to money passing through ActBlue.
Steil also has pushing for the Secure Handling of Internet Electronic Donations (SHIELD) Act to set bars to foreign money being injected into American politics.
ActBlue has denied any wrongdoing.
Earlier, Comer explained, "We're investigating ActBlue the same way we investigated the Bidens. … We're starting with the suspicious activity reports — bank violations that flag financial crimes. And let me tell you, the evidence is overwhelming."
