WASHINGTON — The CEO of the largest Democratic fundraising platform pleaded the Fifth Amendment Wednesday rather than testify before Congress about allegations that her firm illegally funneled foreign donations to federal campaigns.
“On the advice of my counsel, I respectfully decline to answer this question pursuant to my Fifth Amendment rights under the Constitution,” ActBlue boss Regina Wallace-Jones said in response to the first question posed during the House hearing.
House Administration Committee Chairman Bryan Steil (R-Wis.) said in his opening remarks there was “significant concern that ActBlue may have allowed foreign donations on their platform, lied to Congress and withheld responsive documents from a congressional subpoena.”
“All three of those actions are illegal,” Steil declared.
The panel issued a subpoena compelling Wallace-Jones’ testimony after ActBlue lawyers indicated she wouldn’t answer questions on a voluntary basis.
Steil and other Republican committee chairmen looking into ActBlue have claimed that Wallace-Jones also misled Congress about the strength of fraud safeguards on its platform.
Rep. Joe Morelle (D-NY), the top Democrat on the Administration Committee, dismissed the hearing as a partisan exercise and accused his GOP colleagues of refusing to investigate possibly illegal foreign donations on their party’s biggest platform, WinRed.
In a video statement posted on the platform’s website Wednesday, Wallace-Jones accused “President Trump and his allies” of “abusing their power to target ActBlue.”
“Invoking the Fifth Amendment is not an admission — or even an insinuation — of guilt,” she said.
“Last year, President Trump directed the Justice Department to investigate ActBlue, not based on facts, but dislike. Republican committee chairs wrote to Trump’s attorney general pledging to work collaboratively together,” Wallace-Jones added.
“These attacks did not start with ActBlue. And sadly, we know they are not stopping here. They are part of a much bigger trend of retaliation and retribution. It was universities. It was law firms. Then civil rights organizations.”
She concluded: “We will not be intimidated.”
The fundraising site has helped Democratic campaigns and causes raise more than $19 billion since it was founded in 2004.
Nearly $2 billion of those funds flowed to Democrats during the 2024 election cycle, at the same time that internal records, later obtained by The Post, showed ActBlue made its fraud standards “more lenient.”
https://nypost.com/2026/06/10/us-news/actblue-ceo-pleads-the-fifth-as-house-probes-illegal-foreign-donations-to-dems/
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