Congressman Bryan Steil, R-Wis., on Wednesday raised concerns about individuals being “unwitting straw donors” to Democratic nonprofit ActBlue.
“The great concern is that people would be unwitting straw donors, meaning an individual is simply typing in their information and then using a financial payment not associated with that individual,” Steil said on the “John Solomon Reports” podcast.
Steil, who chairs the House Administration Committee, uncovered a suspicious pattern of donations from individuals with net worths too small to donate what has been credited to them via ActBlue reports to the Federal Election Commission.
“This investigation focused on potential unlawful exploitation of unwitting ‘straw donors,’ whose identities may have been used to channel illicit funds into campaigns in your state,” Steil wrote to top law enforcement officials in five states. […]
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