ActBlue CEO Regina Wallace-Jones on Wednesday repeatedly invoked her Fifth Amendment right, refusing to answer questions during a House Administration Committee Hearing, probing the Democratic fundraising platform’s illegal practices. 

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?

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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?

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Throughout the hearing, she continued to gleefully refuse to answer any questions posed by Republican lawmakers.

Per the New York Times, “The Democrats at the hearing posed no questions to Ms. Wallace-Jones but instead attacked WinRed, the Republican fund-raising platform, and Ken Paxton, the Texas attorney general and Senate nominee who has mounted his own investigation of ActBlue.”

This comes amid an expanding probe of ActBlue’s handling of foreign donations.

Last week, House Administration Chairman Bryan Steil (R-WI), Committee on the Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH), and Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Chairman James Comer (R-KY) fired off letters, requesting documents and transcribed interviews with five members of ActBlue’s Board of Directors.

As reported by Fox, “The letters come as ActBlue is under intense pressure over whether it accurately represented its fraud-prevention practices and handling of foreign donations that may have been routed through the platform into U.S. elections. The Republican-led committees have accused the platform of stonewalling their investigation by withholding documents subpoenaed by the panel and failing to be transparent after learning about the potential misrepresentation of facts.”

The letters seek answers on the fundraising giant’s “knowing and willful” acceptance of foreign donations, false statements previously made under oath by Regina Wallace-Jones, and documented efforts to mislead Congress.

Excerpts from the letters to ActBlue’s Board of Directors read,

“According to the New York Times, in February 2025, ActBlue staff notified the company’s Board of Directors about vulnerabilities stemming from apparently ‘knowing and willful’ acceptance of foreign donations and CEO Regina Wallace-Jones’s past misrepresentations to Congress about these donations.

“You reportedly stated that ActBlue, apparently in consultation with the Board of Directors, decided not to ‘correct’ Ms. Wallace-Jones’s false statements to Congress.

“Internal emails produced to the Committees indicate that ActBlue’s union also raised concerns to the Board of Directors during the same period about mass resignations, firings, and alleged internal retaliation related to ActBlue’s failure to adequately address fraud and apparent attempts to mislead Congress.”

Previously, as The Gateway Pundit reported, the House Judiciary Committee deposed five ActBlue employees, and they all pleaded the Fifth Amendment to 146 different questions. 

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Five ActBlue Employees Plead the Fifth on 146 Questions During House Judiciary Depositions – EVERY Member of Legal & Compliance Was Fired, Quit, or on Extended Leave From Platform in 2025

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