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No. of Recommendations: 3
The democrats' money laun-, er, fundraising platform Act Blue - a subject I've written about in the past - appears to be on its last legs. Several execs have quit and they're down to just 1 lawyer:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/05/us/politics/act...ActBlue, the online fund-raising organization that powers Democratic candidates, has plunged into turmoil, with at least seven senior officials resigning late last month and a remaining lawyer suggesting he faced internal retaliation.AB has been a way for dems to launder money for years, directing some $16 billion to their candidates over the past 16 years or however long they've been around. But they do more than that. Barack Obama pioneered turning off the AVS system for credit cards so he could hide foreign donations and Act Blue has certainly carried the torch:
ActBlue only began requiring safeguards such as a card verification value, or CVV, following heightened scrutiny late last year. These are “standard procedures to guard against identity theft and fraud,” according to the letter.Yeah, nothing says "Trust but verify" like turning off card security.
But they've also pioneered a form of fraud called "smurfing":
https://thefederalist.com/2025/03/11/amid-chaos-at...This drew attention to ActBlue’s fundraising practices and raised alarms about potential “smurfing” — a criminal practice that consists of dividing large transactions into smaller ones to avoid legal reporting requirements, obscuring the identity of the donor. As The Federalist reported, Republican Sen. Ron Johnson has been calling attention to “smurfing” through ActBlue for years, pointing out foreign actors could use the system to influence American elections under the radar.The democrats have always accused the GOP of doing what they were already doing, and in this case they've been on the payroll of...pretty much the rest of the world...for more than 15 years.
Here's hoping ActBlue is toast.
No. of Recommendations: 17
The democrats' money laun-, er, fundraising platform Act Blue
Listening to a Republican talking about money laundering is just so gobstoppingly pathetic.
No. of Recommendations: 1
IT'LL be back.
Big time.---or something like it.
No. of Recommendations: 2
Listening to a Republican talking a
Team Blue does the crimes. Now Team Blue loses its money.
Been telling you for years the democrats have been the beneficiaries of large scale fraud and corruption, but the left never listens.
No. of Recommendations: 2
IT'LL be back.
Yep. The democrat party's criminal fundraising is a lot like the mafia's, or better yet very much like Jason from the Friday the 13th series. No matter what you do, it always rises from the dead to terrorize a new group of teenagers.
No. of Recommendations: 13
Team Blue does the crimes.
What specific crimes has anyone from ActBlue been convicted of?
I’m not looking for someone who has actually been found guilty of 34 felony counts. 1 felony count (or even a misdemeanor) conviction would do.
No. of Recommendations: 0
Listening to a Republican talking about money laundering is just so gobstoppingly pathetic.
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This Biden voter was convinced to go Trump - so I guess I' ma Republican again.
I'm not complaining about money laundering I'M CELEBRATING IT! I love that Dems do it, and Sheeple can just say "what about repubs" because that means that to all the Trump laundering ---I can say "what about Dems"?
And - the checkmate - Shapeless shit laws get trampled on, and the bullshit Democracy that Sheeple *pretends* to advocate for - is dented yet again.
I can only hope that Putin, MBS, and others are doing whatever they need to do money wise.
Kushner? I think he might be too smart to piss away all he's ripping Sheeple off for but then again, who the hell is gonna investigate him? IRS agents don't have time to find the Coke Machine now :):):):)
BAAAAAAA go Republicans and launder! Go Dems and Launder!
Tribalism - will allow more of this.
Sheeple punished again.
Leader loving it - again
No. of Recommendations: 1
What specific crimes has anyone from ActBlue been convictedGive it time. Unlike the lawfare of democrats, this is actual illegal stuff. I can understand the confusion.
https://nypost.com/2024/10/15/us-news/dem-fundrais...ActBlue, the Democratic fundraising platform that has collected millions of dollars for Kamala Harris, has been named in a bombshell racketeering lawsuit by a Wisconsin Republican strategist who alleges his identity was stolen to make at least 385 fraudulent donations to left-wing causes — including to the Harris Victory Fund.
Mark Block, former chief of staff to Republican 2012 presidential candidate Herman Cain, alleges that a total of $884.38 given in his name and without his knowledge between May and October was designed to circumvent federal election law and may be part of a larger scam involving tens of thousands of unwitting donors.Identity theft. Not very sporting, libs.
No. of Recommendations: 0
Not just for that.
I know you don't agree----- but I think we're begging them to come back to power at this very moment.
I only wonder if it'll be a Centrist regime or an AOC regime.
We're going to be bitches.
Enjoy this while it lasts.
No. of Recommendations: 0
What specific crimes has anyone from ActBlue been convicted of?
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Ok so if not convicted, all is well.
Good - nobody lied about WMD in Iraq. Tell Alpha over on TMF there were no. convictions.
No. of Recommendations: 2
I know you don't agree----- but I think we're begging them to come back to power at this very moment.
I only wonder if it'll be a Centrist regime or an AOC regime.
We're going to be bitches.
Enjoy this while it lasts.Nah.
The libs are hoping they can scream and yell and declare a less than two month old Presidency a failure. The problem is...they don't control the popular perception anymore.
During Obama they could claim that the economy was SuperAwesome and that he was The Lightbringer abroad. In reality, it took 8 years for unemployment to go get back to where it was before his Presidency (and a lot of that was due to people just leaving the workforce) and GDP didn't do much (average growth of about 1.7%/year). Abroad he oversaw the rise of a terrorist army (ISIS) in the wake of his Iraq pullout, the creation of a terror/slave state in Libya, and basically had everyone else walk all over him.
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/UNRATE/https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/GDP/They got away with it because people still listened to the media back then. Then Biden came along and told everybody that INFLATION IS TRANSITORY and that Teh Rubes were imagining things - Everything was Awesome!
Didn't work.
Every time a board lib posts something or the media leads with something, I assume it's either something they made up out thin air ("Trump might...") if not an outright lie (RUSSIARUSSIARUSSIA, to name a few). The voters will judge for themselves on whether or not their lives are any better in 2026 and again in 2028.
I'd rather have the football in my hands. So would you. There might be some bumps, but we'll get there.
Oh, by the way - Jeanne Shaheen isn't running for re-election of her Senate seat in New Hampshire. If Sununu runs, that seat is ours. The little d's also have to replace Gary Peters in MI and Tina Smith in MN...that's *3* open seats they have to pour money into in a year that should be favorable to them.
And they're going to have to do it without USAID giving their NGO's free money (Stacey Abrams was buying votes in Georgia with her green fridge scam) and without ACT BLUE stealing identities from nursing home residents.
Nah...the little d's have problems. Big ones. I say let this all play out.
No. of Recommendations: 12
Give it time. Unlike the lawfare of democrats, this is actual illegal stuff. I can understand the confusion.
MAGA has a very long record of accusations from Hillary’s emails to PizzaGate to widespread voter fraud to whatever else your news sources make up about Democrats. Yet actual proof seems to always be missing from your vast left-wing conspiracies.
If you want to see confusion, find a mirror.
Until then, I’ll believe it when I see an actual conviction (which is more than you can ever admit to, Mr. I Voted for a 34-Count Felon).
No. of Recommendations: 2
Until then, I’ll believe it when I see an actual conviction
Don't care what you believe.
What matters is...your money laundering schemes are being choked off. One by glorious one.
No. of Recommendations: 3
Listening to a Republican talking about money laundering is just so gobstoppingly pathetic.
Listening to Dope talk about almost anything is "gobstoppingly pathetic".
No. of Recommendations: 13
MAGA has a very long record of accusations from Hillary’s emails to PizzaGate to widespread voter fraud to whatever else your news sources make up about Democrats. Yet actual proof seems to always be missing from your vast left-wing conspiracies.
Meanwhile, trying to overturn an election by killing DC police officers, and invading the Capitol building.
You also forgot Benghazi. How many times did they hold hearings? Was it 5? Headed by a right-wing nutjob with an ax to grind, and still they came up with nothing. Of course, that was pre-MAGA. Maybe the nutjobs were proto-MAGAs?
And, unlike folks that would vote for a 34-count felon, Dems actually prosecute their own when appropriate. Like Menendez. Like Adams, before the MAGA-Felon forced the DOJ to drop charges (and the Dem governor is now considering removing Adams from office).
Dems are not as pure as the driven snow, but they are a hell of a lot more lawful than MAGA.
No. of Recommendations: 6
Mark Block, former chief of staff to Republican 2012 presidential candidate Herman Cain, alleges that a total of $884.38 given in his name and without his knowledge between May and October was designed to circumvent federal election law and may be part of a larger scam involving tens of thousands of unwitting donors.
Would be a crime if true.
But coming from the Federalist Society (Project 2025) and the right wing tabloid New York Post, this could easily qualify as “We’ve seen this bullshit before”.
Wait for state charges. The feds are quickly being suborned by Trump’s political retribution machine, so I wouldn’t necessarily trust them to render an honest indictment.
But we’ll see. I’ll keep an open mind. I quit giving through Act Blue teo months before the election, so I am open to the possibility of a fraud indictment, but this smells too much like a right wing hatchet job.
No. of Recommendations: 2
But coming from the Federalist Society Ahhh, the Poison the Well logical fallacy.
They've done this to thousands of people and in fact there are 19 states looking into them right now.
Iowa:
https://www.iowaattorneygeneral.gov/newsroom/attor...Virginia
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/docs/2024/Miyare...But no actual proof of anything, you'll say. Fine.
A judge found the identity fraud case compelling enough to subpoena Act Blue:
https://justthenews.com/accountability/political-e...For the first time, a Wisconsin court has approved a subpoena to the massive Democrat fund-raising platform ActBlue, saying it owes an explanation to a Republican whose email identity was used to make liberal donations he did not authorize.
“Something is not right,” Waukesha County Circuit Court Judge Brad D. Schimel declared as he approved a limited demand for documents and opened a new front into a widening fund-raising probe begun earlier this year by Congress and 19 attorneys general.
Schimel rejected ActBlue’s arguments that it was onerous to require it to comply a subpoena for third-party donations it processed on its platform. The judge permitted GOP consultant Mark Block and his lawyers from America First Policy Institute to conduct discovery to determine if fraud was involved in the use of his identity to make dozens of Democrat donations on his old email address.Let's look at who is giving Act Blue money and see if this passes the smell test.
https://electionwatch.info/massive-money-launderin...Smurfing – Part 3 shows a gentleman in Michigan making 41,842 contributions to political organizations, PACS and/or campaigns. Note the derivatives of the spelling of his name, address, zip code, and occupation status. The Gibson Group of Maryland and Election Watch, Inc. out of Wisconsin continue to expose a national money laundering scheme to political campaigns. Per the Federal Election Commission website, the average number of political donations for an individual is 1.4 per year. Here just one individual is making (or someone is doing it for him) 14.3 per day 365 days per year for more than 7 years. I guess it's plausible for somebody to make 14 donations a day for 7 years straight, but I kinda doubt it.
No. of Recommendations: 7
But coming from the Federalist Society Ahhh, the Poison the Well logical fallacy.
The entire Federalist Society well is poisoned. Expect nothing truthful from them.
Nothing.
No. of Recommendations: 1
The entire Federalist Society well is poisoned. Expect nothing truthful from them.
Nothing.
tHeY're AlL lIaRz. Got it.
No. of Recommendations: 11
tHeY're AlL lIaRz
aFTeR LeOnArD LeO, THe UnItAry ExeCUTivE tHEOry, ProJEcT 2025, anD then LYING about TrUmP’s reLATIONship to ProJeCt 2025 and RuSseLL VoUGHt, you’re damned right- nothing truthfull can be expected from the Heritage Foundation
No. of Recommendations: 1
aFTeR LeOnArD LeO, THe UnItAry ExeCUTivE tHEOry, ProJEcT 2025, anD then LYING about TrUmP’s reLATIONship to ProJeCt 2025 and RuSseLL VoUGHt, you’re damned right- nothing truthfull can be expected from the Heritage Foundation
LIARSSSSSSSSSS!
No. of Recommendations: 2
LIARSSSSSSSSSS
Yup.
No. of Recommendations: 3
Barack Obama pioneered turning off the AVS system for credit cards so he could hide foreign donations and Act Blue has certainly carried the torch:
ActBlue only began requiring safeguards such as a card verification value, or CVV, following heightened scrutiny late last year. These are “standard procedures to guard against identity theft and fraud,” according to the letter.
When I was overseas, I was happy when the the company didn't require my US address (I'd have to look it up), and ccv was only needed for a limited number of transactions. It's a quantum leap to jump from not getting an address or requiring CCV to terrorist funding, money laundering, but Act Blue should require it because Dems have to be Lilly white while MAGA can be as corrupt as they wanna be.
No. of Recommendations: 2
Act Blue should require it
Except here's the problem. Act Blue has been scamming the system for years and stealing people's identity. That's why all their execs and lawyers have quit, they know what's coming.
No. of Recommendations: 3
Ahhh, the Poison the Well logical fallacy.
Poison the Well is a preemptive fallacy. It's disparaging the source before the source is presented. If the disparagement occurs after the source is presented, it's Ad Hominem
No. of Recommendations: 1
Poison the Well is a preemptive fallacy. It's disparaging the source before the source is presented
Which is what saying "Fox News! I don't believe a word they say because they're lying lying liars!" does.
No. of Recommendations: 6
Which is what saying "Fox News! I don't believe a word they say because they're lying lying liars!" does.
Occasionally Fox tells the truth, and to their credit, moreso lately.
But you still have to wade through ten tons of bullshit to find it. It’s just not worth the effort.
MSNBC and CNN are starting to walk the same path of subservience to Trump
Then there’s WaPo, LATimes and NYTimes with their bending the knee and journalists fleeing all of the above outlets for independent status.
Corporate media is toast. But Fox is further along in the process than most.
This is how censorship happens- not with a bang, but a whimper. It’s how Putin did it. It’s how Orban did it. It’s how Trump is doing it
No. of Recommendations: 2
MSNBC and CNN are starting to walk the same path of subservience to Trump LOL
Corporate media is toast.
Good. Let it burn.
This is how censorship happens- not with a bang, but a whimper. It’s how Putin did it. It’s how Orban did it. It’s how Trump is doing it
Nobody is censoring you.
No one is canceling you.
Go tell a Muslim joke in the UK and tell me about free speech.
No. of Recommendations: 11
Nobody is censoring you.
No one is canceling you.
First step is bringing big media to heel. You and I are mice in the closet with small audiences.
Dissidents were allowed to exist in Russia for a few years too. But steadily, gradually, the lights went out.
No. of Recommendations: 2
First step is bringing big media to heel.
Nobody gets their news from Big Media anymore.
No. of Recommendations: 3
Nobody gets their news from Big Media anymore.
That’s because Big Media is being brought to heel and people know it. FOXnews did it willingly. The rest are doing so grudgingly. But the effect will be the same.
No. of Recommendations: 2
That’s because Big Media is being brought to heel and people know it.
Riiiiight.
It's more like, "Big Media got tired of viewers/readers rejecting their left wing spew, and are adjusting accordingly".
No. of Recommendations: 3
It's more like, "Big Media got tired of viewers/readers rejecting their left wing spew, and are adjusting accordingly".
That’s certainly what you would like to believe, but facts tell a different story.
The precipitous decline in subscriptions at WaPo and LaTimes began almost the very moment that the owners of both newspapers killed endorsements for Kamela.
For MSNBC, the decline in viewers fell off the cliff with Joe and Mikka taking that trip to MaraLago.
CNN’s decline has been more gradual. With each tightening of the corporate screws, another slug of viewers turn them off.
Interesting- many of these readers are going other places. Many have headed to the Bulwark on Substack, or to MeidasTouch- whose programing draws more viewers than FOXNews or Joe Rogan.
Journalism is rearranging itself- out from underneath the thumbs of corporate or oligarch owners- and into the free market arena where it’s just the journalists and their subscribers.
At least every week or so, I see another journalist leave the mainstram media and suddenly appear with their own column on substack
No. of Recommendations: 7
So I picked Electionwatch to sample as a source.
https://electionwatch.info/massive-money-launderin...
Smurfing – Part 3 shows a gentleman in Michigan making 41,842 contributions to political organizations, PACS and/or campaigns. Note the derivatives of the spelling of his name, address, zip code, and occupation status. The Gibson Group of Maryland and Election Watch, Inc. out of Wisconsin continue to expose a national money laundering scheme to political campaigns. Per the Federal Election Commission website, the average number of political donations for an individual is 1.4 per year. Here just one individual is making (or someone is doing it for him) 14.3 per day 365 days per year for more than 7 years.
I guess it's plausible for somebody to make 14 donations a day for 7 years straight, but I kinda doubt it.Found this at Pro Publica:
Election Watch Inc
New London, WI
Tax-exempt since Nov. 2022
EIN: 92-0863109
Organization summary
Type of Nonprofit
Designated as a 501(c)(3) Organizations for any of the following purposes: religious, educational, charitable, scientific, literary, testing for public safety, fostering national or international amateur sports competition (as long as it doesn't provide athletic facilities or equipment), or the prevention of cruelty to children or animals.
Category: Civil Rights, Social Action, Advocacy / Voter Education, Registration (NTEE)
Donations to this organization are tax deductible.
Compensation
Key Employees and Officers Compensation
Peter Bernegger (President) $120,000Which lead to this:
SNIP How one Wisconsin man plagued election offices and stoked mistrust
Peter Bernegger has brought at least 18 lawsuits against election clerks and offices over alleged fraud –
now he faces criminal chargesPeter Bernegger has spent the last three and a half years bombarding local election offices in Wisconsin with litigation and accusations of fraud. He’s brought at least 18 lawsuits against election clerks and offices in state court, and on social media, he has relentlessly promoted his litigation and circulated false claims about election fraud in the swing state.
His campaign has recently landed him in legal trouble – Bernegger now faces criminal charges for allegedly falsifying a subpoena in connection with a lawsuit against the state’s top election office.
It’s an escalation for the 61-year-old activist from New London, Wisconsin, who according to court documents, interviews with election officials and emails obtained by the Guardian, has drained election offices of already-limited resources and stoked mistrust in the electoral process in his years-long quest to uncover election fraud.
In the universe of activists who dispute the results of the 2020 election and have spent years searching for evidence of widespread voter fraud, Bernegger’s star power is small. He has not served on a Trump campaign team, no high-powered conservative law firms have taken on his cases and his media appearances are mostly relegated to interviews with fringe podcasts on the rightwing YouTube alternative Rumble.
But his efforts prove that in a country where election offices are chronically underfunded and heavily scrutinized, a single, relatively unknown person can exercise an outsize, and detrimental, impact on election administration....
...In 2022, he went on to promote his claims in front of the state legislature, spending two hours describing his findings to the assembly committee on elections and campaigns.
Now, in Wisconsin’s sprawling community of election workers, Bernegger is known for sending barrages of requests for election-related records and suing when he is dissatisfied with the results. Since 2020, Bernegger, who is not an attorney, has represented himself in his many lawsuits against election clerks and offices,
sometimes abandoning them before they are concluded. In at least two cases, Bernegger’s complaints were dismissed on the grounds that he had simply stopped responding.In 2022, the Wisconsin elections commission voted to fine Bernegger a dollar for every claim of voter fraud the bipartisan group found to be frivolous in nature; his penalties amounted to $2,403. SNIP
ME: There's nothing in the Guardian article that shows he's ever successfully found any fraud. YMMV Dope, but he has the appearance of an unsuccessful hack.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/27/pe...
No. of Recommendations: 13
Sorry, the wife got home and I forgot one part:
SNIP According to court filings, Bernegger and an associate raised hundreds of thousands of dollars from investors to bankroll a collection of companies in the food processing business. Among other ventures Bernegger touted was a company called We-Gel, which he claimed was capable of harnessing waste from catfish processing plants to produce an alternative form of gelatin – one that could be used widely in pharmaceuticals.
But there was a problem. The business partners “were never able to manufacture a sellable product”, according to charges brought by the justice department in a 2008 case before a US district court in Mississippi. A jury convicted Bernegger of mail fraud and bank fraud for his participation in the scheme.
Bernegger successfully appealed the initial amount of restitution down to $1.7m, from the approximately $2.2m initially ordered, but was unable to convince the courts to reduce his prison sentence of 70 months. SNIP
Yes. A most trustworthy person, eh Dope?
No. of Recommendations: 2
Yes. A most trustworthy person, eh Dope?
Here’s the thing. I don’t care.
Know why? Because all that matter is: is he right. Given that he’s using federal data and that he’s not the only one saying it…
…he very likely is.
Stop supporting fraud. And identity theft of people in nursing homes. Have you no decency?
No. of Recommendations: 12
ALL of Bernegger’s cases were proven to be fraudulent. You believe him because he is telling you the lies that you want to believe. You are proof that the right wing lie machine works by using you, and people like you, as useful tools.
https://isthmus.com/news/news/election-denialist-t...
No. of Recommendations: 3
The authoritarian mindset has always believed that the 'end justifies the means'.
No. of Recommendations: 0
19 states and at least one judge disagree with you, but keep making it about other posters! Nothing says Stronk Debater like that!
