Leading Democratic fundraising platform ActBlue is “all but declaring war” on a law firm it fired last year that raised alarms over the group potentially concealing foreign donations from Congress, the New York Times revealed Thursday.
The firm, Covington & Burling, sent a pair of “startling” memos in early 2025 warning that ActBlue President and CEO Regina Wallace-Jones may have misled Republican Wisconsin Rep. Bryan Steil on how the platform makes sure donations are actually coming from U.S. sources, as required by law, according to the NYT.
The move reportedly triggered a “meltdown” at what the NYT described as “one of the Democratic Party’s most vital financial organs.
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“An aggressive prosecutor may view the November 2023 letter not just as a false statement but as an effort to conceal the foreign contributions,” the firm wrote in one of the memos, the outlet reported.
Covington also indicated in a 2025 memo
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