If the Left money-launders in the woods but the Justice Department ignores it…
Quin Hillyer
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Democrats nationally appear to be financing their campaigns through a massive money laundering scheme. Only a corrupt Justice Department would fail to open a major investigation into this apparent criminality.
This is the second time in four years that conservative outlets have found compelling evidence of such left-wing financial shenanigans. This time, reporters identified numerous people who said large amounts of donations have been reported in their names even though they never actually made them.
MILLIONS OF DONATIONS FROM ‘UNEMPLOYED’ TO LIBERAL CAUSES
Again and again, the left-leaning groups report small-money donations supposedly made by elderly or unemployed people, who are listed as contributors multiple times per day, almost every day for years. Often these people knowingly made two or three small donations, such as $5 or maybe $25, but are listed as having made thousands upon thousands of individual contributions. According to one of the two new reports, this one jointly by an outfit called the Gibson Group of Maryland and Election Watch from Wisconsin, usually the donors “are not aware their names and addresses are being used for such voluminous donations.”
“The top ten [of these donors] in the state of Michigan made 125,122 contributions over the last ten years,” the report said. “In Arizona, the top one made 18,672 contributions in just three years. Another one in Louisiana [was listed to have given] a sum worth much more than her house. The top 32 [reported donors] in Maryland gave a total of $5,559,429.22 over the last five years.”
Again, these are not rich people. Most are elderly or unemployed — or both.
And their donations make a big difference. A huge beneficiary of this funny money, for example, went to the campaign of Janet Protasiewicz, who last week won a much-watched race that tipped the balance of the Wisconsin Supreme Court from conservative to liberal. Controversial conservative journalist James O’Keefe personally showed up at the homes of a number of these supposed donors, who invariably told him they might donate $5 or so every “once in a while” but expressed bafflement at being listed for thousands of such donations totaling tens of thousands of dollars. He found one lady in Tucson who repeatedly denied making 18,000 donations during seven years adding up to — get this — $170,000!
Other journalists found the same pattern in other states. One, Scott McKay of Louisiana, found an unemployed New Orleans man who was listed as having made 896 donations adding up to more than $18,000 in just two years. As has been the case with a large proportion of these inconceivable donations, all of this man’s money went to ActBlue, a far-left donation-aggregating outfit that brags of having raised nearly $12 billion — that’s billion with a ‘b” — for left-wing causes since 2004. One of ActBlue’s big recipients was Black Lives Matter.
It has been known for years that ActBlue’s financing is suspicious. Fox News reported in 2020 that “nearly half of all 2019 donations to ActBlue were made by people claiming to be unemployed.” Critics, Fox News reported, “contend that the website allows credit card donations that are not verified, so anyone from any country in the world can donate without a paper trail.”
Allegations should be tried in a court of law, of course, but this certainly looks like a classic and immense case of money laundering, perhaps from foreign sources. The scale of this scheme appears gargantuan.
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Maybe there’s an innocent explanation. If so, it better be a good one. Either way, what already is publicly known should catalyze one of the biggest Justice Department campaign finance investigations in history.
That it hasn’t already done so is an obvious indictment of the character of Attorney General Merrick Garland.