Guest post by Bob Cushman
Once in a while, a reporter finds a story that challenges his or her ability to tell because it is so massive in terms of time and scope. He or she feels over-whelmed. This reporter feels that way, but let’s begin anyway. This story will attempt to show the reader the journey that this reporter has been on to discover what is most likely one of the largest money laundering evolutions in the history of this country.
First Indications of Massive Money Laundering – 2019
Six years ago in October of 2019, I was downloading data from the FEC database, which by the way is quite easy to do. As I compiled the data I found that three Michigan Congresswomen had received about 75% of their total incoming campaign donations from out of the state of Michigan. At that time, this reporter was both amazed and confused. How could this possibly be? I decided to compile this information and wrote letters to William Barr (Attorney General), Christopher Wray (Director of FBI) and Matthew Schneider (US Attorney of SE Michigan). A copy of this letter which was sent to all three officials is as follows:
In this letter I defined my purpose as:
“The purpose of this letter is to request a thorough investigation into the legitimacy of campaign donations of three Michigan Congressional Districts, MI 8th, MI 11th and MI 13th. The extremely high “out of state” component of the individual donations and other factors strongly suggest a preponderance of “conduits” AKA straw donors which is a violation of Title 52, United States Code, Sections 30122 and 30109(a)(1)(A).”
Unfortunately, I never received a substantive response from anyone.
Amazing Increase in Money Flow to Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer Fast forward to November of 2023. I once again noticed something astonishing! While analyzing campaign contributions to Governor Whitmer, I was surprised to see the following: “After Whitmer contracted with the largest, most successful Democratic consultants known as GMMB her donation dollars increased by 100 fold and the number of donations per year increased by 265 fold!” How could this possibly happen? Is it possible that the payment to GMMB “facilitated” the increased flow of “Straw Donors” AKA “Smurfs”? Only an investigation that could produce subpoenas could find the truth! The details of my findings can be found here:
Election Watch Press Release I then came across a Press release from Election Watch/ Peter Bernegger that stated: “A report by non-profit organizations, the Gibson Group of Maryland and Election Watch, has exposed a large-scale money laundering scheme in US political campaigns. This involves the use of “smurfs” – thousands of individuals who make numerous small donations to liberal PACs, committees or directly to candidates’ campaigns, in order to launder large sums of money. The report claims that over $200m has been laundered so far, with many of the smurfs being unaware their names and addresses are being used for donations. Investigation found that the smurfs tend to be primarily white, retired, liberal, and of middle to lower economic class.”
Note: Peter Bernegger is, in my opinion the absolute authority on identifying “straw donors” AAK “smurfs”. I encourage readers to visit the following website: You will be amazed at the data that has been composed for your benefit! Peter is without question one of the leading Patriots in this country fighting for election integrity!
Letter to James Comer: Fast forward to September of 2024. This author composed a letter to James Comer – Chair of the Congressional Oversight Committee. In this letter I stated the letter’s purpose as follows: “As a citizen journalist/investigative reporter, I have spent several hundred hours, in the past few years, researching and reporting on the subject matter of your investigation. I am responding to your announcement with some of my work in hopes that it may prove helpful to your investigation. The most important aspect of laundered money in the campaign finance sector is that our right to be represented by our elected officials has been stolen in large part by massive amounts of laundered money! This cannot be overstated! I believe there have been billions of dollars illegally laundered by ActBlue in the last two decades, and more recently and to a much lesser degree, by WinRed! I think it highly likely that the FEC is complicit or at the very least, guilty of malfeasance in this regard.”
To view the letter to James Comer see the following:
In my data research I discovered 20 smurfs that I labeled as the Corey Booker Smurfs. A summary of these smurfs is as follows:
All of these so called donors are seniors with the average being 80 years old. Amazingly these 20 persons have been accused of donating over 2.6 million dollars in over 187,000 separate donations. It should be noted that conventional wisdom indicates that these elderly persons had their identities stolen and that they did not actually make anywhere close to this ridiculous amount of donations/money. Investigations by many, including James O Keefe, Peter Bernegger and myself have shown that most, if not all, of individuals similarly involved are actually “straw donors” AKA “smurfs”.
Trump Orders DOJ to Investigate ActBlue! Fast forward to April of 2025 In April 2025, President Donald Trump ordered the Justice Department (DOJ) to investigate foreign money flowing through campaign funds, specifically targeting ActBlue, the Democrats’ main fundraising platform, citing “straw donor” schemes and illegal foreign contributions.
Seditious Six – Recipients of Money Laundering Fast forward to December – 2025.
After conducting many hours of “spreadsheet analysis” this author issued a report in which I state: “It now appears that the six lawmakers have been found to have been heavily involved in money laundering. Investigative Reporter/Citizen Journalist, Bob Cushman, has just released an FEC data analysis that strongly suggests that Mark Kelly, Elissa Slotkin, Jason Crow, Chris Deluzio, Chrissy Houlahan and Maggie Goodlander have been recipients of illegally laundered campaign funds. In the initial investigation, Cushman cites 22 Smurf examples that have “allegedly” contributed almost three million dollars in more than 95,000 separate donations to Democratic coffers. All six members of the Seditious Six have received funds from one or more of these “smurfs”.”
This report can be viewed at:
The data contained in this report is summarized in this following chart:
In this analysis, I labeled the 22 smurfs the Mark Kelly Smurfs since he was the only one in this study that received donations from all 22 smurfs. Once again the average age of these smurfs is senior level 77 years of age. Does anyone really believe that these 22 seniors contributed almost three million dollars in 95,000 separate donations? It is inconceivable to me that the FEC was not aware of this treachery! Perhaps one day we will see what person or persons at the FEC are indicted for these crimes!
Shocking Revelation by Jason Roe – Campaign Strategist
n a very informative news discussion between Pulitzer Prize Winning Journalist Charlie LeDuff in a “No BS Newshour Episode #395” and campaign strategist Jason Roe (Fraudette Smurf – YouTube) it was stated that ActBlue has allegedly received over 16 billion dollars since 2004. It was also revealed that several senior members of ActBlue have abruptly resigned since allegations of fraud have come forward and several federal investigations have begun in 2025.
Jason Roe stated that people working within political campaigns for many years have been aware of the money laundering that was enabled by ActBlue and that Charlie LeDuff had, within the first few minutes of Episode 395, done a far better job of explaining how ActBlue had laundered money than any mainstream media ever had!
Jason Roe further states that:
- This activity is fraud
- This activity is money laundering
- This activity is funneling money from outside the US
- That Republicans are now outraising Democrats for the first time in a decade
Jason Roe explains that easy to obtain “soft money” is converted into hard to obtain “hard money”, in part, because candidates can use their campaign “hard money” to make television advertising buys at 40% of the rate that soft money manipulators can. If you are a campaign, you would give your bottom dollar to be holding hard dollars when it comes to “winning”. According to Jason Roe’s own testimony, persons like himself that actually run campaigns, have been aware of the illegal conversion of “soft money” to “hard money” through the use of straw donors, also known as “smurfs” for many years!
U.S. Senators are Guilty of Using (or Conducting) Massive Money Laundering! The following chart may be downloaded at the following link:
As I was comparing the two groups of smurfs that I previously uncovered, I decided to see what other Senators that may be involved in this Massive Money Laundering scenario. Please note that this Summary is but my initial effort and is expected to be expanded as time allows. I believe the average viewer will be a surprised as I was at the magnitude of this revelation.
Discussion Regarding Eight Senators’ “Contributions” from 42 Smurfs
- Does anyone really believe that Michael Berger of Pennsylvania really donated $1,324,205 in 24,680 separate donations?
- Does anyone really believe that Susan Law of Fishers, Indiana donated a total of $1045.83 in 73 separate donations that average $14.33 each?
- Does anyone believe that Susan Law would actually donate to these entities and about 75 others? ABBY FOR IOWA, ALSOBROOKS FOR SENATE, BENNET FOR COLORADO, BLUEWAVEAMERICA LLC, BOB CASEY FOR SENATE INC, BOLLIER FOR KANSAS, CATHERINE CORTEZ MASTO FOR SENATE, CHC BOLD PAC, CHERI BEASLEY FOR NORTH CAROLINA, CHRISSY HOULAHAN FOR CONGRESS, CORY BOOKER FOR SENATE, DAGA PAC, DCCC, DEBBIE FOR FLORIDA, DEMOCRATIC ACTION, DNC SERVICES CORP / DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE, DSCC, ELLIOTT FOR WEST VIRGINIA, EQUALITY PAC, FETTERMAN FOR PA, FRIENDS OF KATRINA CHRISTIANSEN, FRIENDS OF SHERROD BROWN, GALLEGO FOR ARIZONA, GILLIBRAND FOR SENATE, HALEY STEVENS FOR CONGRESS, JAIME HARRISON FOR US SENATE, JON OSSOFF FOR SENATE, KLOBUCHAR FOR MINNESOTA, MARCUS FOR GEORGIA, MRVAN FOR CONGRESS, OCCUPY DEMOCRATS ELECTION FUND, PETERS FOR MICHIGAN, SARA GIDEON FOR MAINE, SCHIFF FOR SENATE?
- Does anyone believe that Wendy Zorn of NJ would really donate over $8,000.00 in 1,335 separate donations that only average $6.36 each?
- Does anyone believe that Wendy Zorn made over 390 donations that were less than $2.00 each?
- Does anyone really believe that Dave Hutton of California actually made 14,000 separate donations that total over one third of a million dollars? Of course not!
We could go on ad nauseum but any cognitive able person will see that these small donations were originally designed to “stay under the radar” of financial sleuths such as myself. Truth be told it worked for almost two decades! Alas, no more!!!!!
Epilogue It now can be seen that Senators Cory Booker, Mark Kelly, Elissa Slotkin, Raphael Warnock, Adam Schiff, Jon Ossoff, Elizabeth Warren and Amy Klobuchar are heavily and possibly criminally involved as recipients of what is obviously a massive money laundering effort that probably spans the past two decades! This grouping of 42 seniors, AKA “smurfs” reveals the dedicated efforts of some very determined, corrupt individuals to launder money into the Democratic sphere of campaign finance. These 42 persons are “alleged” to have donated over 7.4 million dollars in over 32,000 separate donations. The ActBlue scheme of “Too Small, Too Many To Find” has been discovered! This current revelation is just a current snapshot of what will be an ongoing and probably ever growing investigatory effort.
Stay Tuned Fellow Patriots and please share this as you are able! The Best (Or Worse) is Yet to Come!
Bob Cushman – Investigative Reporter The Freedom Press https://michiganscorruption.com
Chart: Cory Booker Smurfs
No. Name State Age of Smurf Total FEC Donations No. of Donations Average Donation Amount 1 Waters-Appel, Solveig CA 87 $91,620.37 7,491 $12.23 2 James Watson NJ 89 $276,703.58 34,615 $7.99 3 Sarah Weathersby NC 78 $27,481.17 5,601 $4.91 4 Joan Wofford MA 89 $432,082.64 10,717 $40.32 5 Cleveland Woodson MD 92 $20,799.64 1,561 $13.32 6 Gwen Yeo CA 89 $31,282.90 1,083 $28.89 7 Barbara Zaborowski NM 77 $38,647.56 3,886 $9.95 8 M Zebre CA 76 $49,865.13 2,568 $19.42 9 Maxine Zinder NY 90 $117,403.69 2,921 $40.19 10 Wendy Zorn NJ 69 $8,488.44 1,335 $6.36 11 Stan Allen FL 100 $18,575.00 1,234 $15.05 12 Stephen Switzer NJ 67 $101,030.20 19,400 $5.21 13 Delores Parron-Ragland MD 80 $97,285.84 10,490 $9.27 14 Cynthia Marshall CA 72 $45,856.05 2,306 $19.89 15 Linda Luna TX 75 $23,444.35 5,233 $4.48 16 Armor Fair NJ 72 $71,513.05 6,933 $10.31 17 Nancy Dyer PA 78 $44,646.62 10,129 $4.41 18 Nancy Doonan MD 76 $306,881.91 35,279 $8.70 19 Anthony Cookson CA 71 $679,044.46 12,493 $54.35 20 Raymond Buckner NJ 78 $119,997.15 12,696 $9.45 Totals $2,602,649.75 187,971 Chart: Combined Cory Booker and Mark Kelly Smurfs
No. Name State Age of Smurf Smurf Group Total FEC Donations No. of Donations Average Donation Amount Cory Booker Mark Kelly Elissa Slotkin Raphael Warnock Adam Schiff Jon Ossoff Elizabeth Warren Amy Klobuchar 1 Waters-Appel, Solveig CA 87 Cory Booker Smurfs $91,620.37 7,491 $12.23 Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes No No 2 James Watson NJ 89 Cory Booker Smurfs $276,703.58 34,615 $7.99 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes 3 Sarah Weathersby NC 78 Cory Booker Smurfs $27,481.17 5,601 $4.91 Yes No Yes No No Yes No Yes 4 Joan Wofford MA 89 Cory Booker Smurfs $432,082.64 10,717 $40.32 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No 5 Cleveland Woodson MD 92 Cory Booker Smurfs $20,799.64 1,561 $13.32 Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes 6 Gwen Yeo CA 89 Cory Booker Smurfs $31,282.90 1,083 $28.89 Yes Yes No Yes No Yes Yes No 7 Barbara Zaborowski NM 77 Cory Booker Smurfs $38,647.56 3,886 $9.95 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes 8 M Zebre CA 76 Cory Booker Smurfs $49,865.13 2,568 $19.42 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes 9 Maxine Zinder NY 90 Cory Booker Smurfs $117,403.69 2,921 $40.19 Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes No No 10 Wendy Zorn NJ 69 Cory Booker Smurfs $8,488.44 1,335 $6.36 Yes No No Yes Yes No No No 11 Stan Allen FL 100 Cory Booker Smurfs $18,575.00 1,234 $15.05 Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes No No 12 Stephen Switzer NJ 67 Cory Booker Smurfs $101,030.20 19,400 $5.21 Yes Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes 13 Delores Parron-Ragland MD 80 Cory Booker Smurfs $97,285.84 10,490 $9.27 Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes No No 14 Cynthia Marshall CA 72 Cory Booker Smurfs $45,856.05 2,306 $19.89 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No 15 Linda Luna TX 75 Cory Booker Smurfs $23,444.35 5,233 $4.48 Yes Yes No Yes No Yes No No 16 Armor Fair NJ 72 Cory Booker Smurfs $71,513.05 6,933 $10.31 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes 17 Nancy Dyer PA 78 Cory Booker Smurfs $44,646.62 10,129 $4.41 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes 18 Nancy Doonan MD 76 Cory Booker Smurfs $306,881.91 35,279 $8.70 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes 19 Anthony Cookson CA 71 Cory Booker Smurfs $679,044.46 12,493 $54.35 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes 20 Raymond Buckner NJ 78 Cory Booker Smurfs $119,997.15 12,696 $9.45 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes 21 Hutton, Dave CA 71 Mark Kelly Smurfs $344,339.00 14,047 $24.51 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes 22 Sanderson, Daphne NJ 72 Mark Kelly Smurfs $24,018.00 1,878 $12.79 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes 23 Hardy, William NH 69 Mark Kelly Smurfs $148,768.00 3,189 $46.65 No Yes No Yes Yes No No No 24 Degrasse, Robert MD 71 Mark Kelly Smurfs $78,972.00 1,510 $52.30 No Yes Yes Yes No No No No 25 Gibbons, Mary CA 93 Mark Kelly Smurfs $374,020.00 5,660 $66.08 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes 26 Ditz, Elizabeth CA 73 Mark Kelly Smurfs $31,841.00 2,040 $15.61 No Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes No 27 Kramarsky, Sarah Ann NY 91 Mark Kelly Smurfs $135,434.00 1,478 $91.63 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes 28 Lynn, Marjorie MI 83 Mark Kelly Smurfs $27,492.00 1,598 $17.20 No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No 29 Rosenstein, David CA 72 Mark Kelly Smurfs $308,030.00 1,242 $248.01 Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes No Yes 30 Lesser, Margo MI 75 Mark Kelly Smurfs $359,011.00 6,049 $59.35 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes 31 Waffle, Elizabeth MI 87 Mark Kelly Smurfs $126,775.00 13,604 $9.32 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes 32 Hutchinson, Robert NC 80 Mark Kelly Smurfs $97,660.00 2,631 $37.12 No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes 33 Grimaldi, Karen NJ 68 Mark Kelly Smurfs $189,980.00 7,618 $24.94 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes 34 McDonnell, Paul NY 66 Mark Kelly Smurfs $14,050.00 1,171 $12.00 No Yes No Yes Yes Yes No No 35 Berger, Michael PA 65 Mark Kelly Smurfs $1,324,205.00 24,680 $53.65 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes 36 Law, Susan IN 77 Mark Kelly Smurfs $113,484.00 7,222 $15.71 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes 37 Hughes, Sarah IN 76 Mark Kelly Smurfs $86,697.00 3,117 $27.81 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes 38 Oelerich, John IL 78 Mark Kelly Smurfs $55,932.00 7,166 $7.81 Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes 39 Ung, Geri HI 71 Mark Kelly Smurfs $113,814.00 3,801 $29.94 No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes 40 Smith, Loren FL 87 Mark Kelly Smurfs $159,242.00 7,695 $20.69 No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No 41 Busse, Richard CA 76 Mark Kelly Smurfs $484,686.00 4,213 $115.05 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes 42 Stucky, Galen CA 88 Mark Kelly Smurfs $213,588.00 12,380 $17.25 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Average Age 78 Total $7,414,687.75 321,960 $23.03 Notes:
- Evidence is available at FEC.GOV as well as: and
- 30 donations occurred after Linda Luna’s Death on May 5, 2024!
- 785 Donations were made after Joan Wofford’s death on January 30, 2023!
- Bob Cushman – Investigative Reporter – The Freedom Press
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