Money is being donated to Democrat campaigns by unwitting donors, according to a new O’Keefe Media Group (OMG) investigation.
“FEC data shows that some senior citizens across the U.S. have been donating thousands of times per year,” OMG boss James O’Keefe revealed in a video published this week.
“Some of these individuals’ names and addresses are attached to over $200,000 in contributions. We went and knocked on a few of their doors to corroborate the data that we received from a group of citizen journalists called Election Watch from Maryland,” he added.
What he found was disturbing.
Watch:
James O’Keefe Exposed Democrat’s MASSIVE Money Laundering Operation
Contributions were made through ActBlue & Citizens all across the US
Over $200 Million Laundered
It’s called “Smurfing”: The activity of laundering money by conducting a large number of small transactions… pic.twitter.com/MShOk7igeT
— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) July 23, 2024
First up was a guy in Annapolis who allegedly donated $217,000 “made through 12,000 different contributions in a three-year period of time” to ActBlue, the fundraising arm of the Democrat Party.
“Now sometimes these contributions have been made in variations of his name and variations of his address,” O’Keefe revealed. “We’re wondering if these donors are victims of what appears to be a money-laundering scheme.”
When confronted by O’Keefe, the man initially said he hadn’t been aware of all the contributions being sent under his name. But the man quickly became unhinged and started calling for the assault and battery of former President Donald Trump.
“Talk to Donald Trump. Hit him with a bat. Right over the head. It would certainly keep you in the eyes. I want to see a scar on his f***ing head. Now stop f***ing with me,” the man said.
Next up was Cindy, an Annapolis woman who in 2022 contributed $18,000 over 1,000 times to ActBlue.
“That means Cindy would have had to donate three times a day for a whole year,” O’Keefe noted.
When asked whether she ever donated to ActBlue, the woman, to her credit, fessed up that she had indeed but stressed that she only donated “once in a while.”
Then when asked if she’d donated over $18,000, she admitted, “I doubt that — no, I don’t think so!”
“I wish I could have donated $18,000 to [President Joe] Biden’s presidency,” she added.
Dems flood Kamala’s campaign coffers with tens of millions – so they say https://t.co/7bJycvi6Fy via @BIZPACReview
— BPR based (@DumpstrFireNews) July 23, 2024
Another woman, Carolyn Lenz of Tuscon, adamantly denied ever donating as much as FEC records show she’s donated.
“No, no, no, no, no,” she said.
Next, O’Keefe confronted a man named Garland, who allegedly made 31,000 contributions under his address in Washington, D.C., to ask if he, O’Keefe, could make a contribution in his name.
“Have you donated to ActBlue in the past?” he bluntly asked Garland.
“I don’t believe so,” the man replied. “I believe my wife has, but nowhere near that much.”
Watch O’Keefe’s team confronting more supposed ActBlue donors below:
James O’Keefe ‘OMG’ Featured A Citizen Journalist Video Exposing ActBlue Money Laundering
Phoenix, Arizona, resident had 20+ donations made in her name to ActBlue. She did not recognize the donations
“There’s no way I could afford that”
Donors denying high volumes… pic.twitter.com/P9tUMJ35RB
— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) July 24, 2024
O’Keefe’s latest findings come about a year after Sen. Marco Rubio sent a letter to the Federal Election Commission demanding that it investigate ActBlue for fraud.
“Two weeks ago, alarming reports emerged of fraudulent donations being reported to the FEC by ActBlue,” Rubio wrote, referencing a previous but similar investigation by OMG, as reported by Fox News. “These reports indicate that numerous individuals, including senior citizens, have purportedly donated to ActBlue thousands of times a year.”
“However, according to recent investigative reports, many of these individuals had no idea that their names and addresses were being used to give thousands of dollars in political donations, with most of these ‘donations’ going to ActBlue,” he added.
The media have for their part jumped through hoops to try to “debunk” O’Keefe’s reporting, as usual.
For instance, Maryland Matters, a partisan nonprofit, sought a quote from Campaign Level Center official Adav Noti claiming that O’Keefe’s videos prove nothing.
“I understand the video to be implying that these people are not, in fact, making these contributions,” Noti told the outlet. “That’s an extremely serious accusation that would be a federal felony if that were happening. It’s something that the Department of Justice prosecutes.”
“If there were actual evidence of that sort of violation on that scale the Department of Justice would definitely be interested. I have heard no indications of any such interest,” Noti added.
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V. Saxena is a staff writer with a decade of experience as a professional writer, and a lifetime of experience as an avid news junkie. He holds a degree in computer technology from Purdue University. Saxena also contributes to BizPac Review.
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