ActBlue CEO Invokes Fifth Amendment During Hearing
Regina Wallace-Jones, the CEO of ActBlue, frequently declined to answer questions on Wednesday during a Congressional hearing focused on claims that the Democratic fundraising platform has accepted donations linked to foreign sources.
She particularly resisted Congressman Jim Jordan’s inquiries about alleged foreign donations, potential fraud regulations, and the resignation of ActBlue’s legal team. “On the advice of my attorney and in accordance with my Fifth Amendment rights, I respectfully decline to answer this question,” she stated, when pressed on these issues.
Jordan highlighted reports suggesting that millions of donations processed by ActBlue in 2024 indicated foreign origins. He mentioned, “The chairman of the board said that 38 million donations in 2024 showed signs of foreign source. How much cheating is too much cheating?”
When Jordan asked Wallace-Jones how many foreign donations ActBlue has accepted, including from Russia, she again chose not to respond.
The Ohio Republican also pressed her about the full resignation of ActBlue’s in-house legal team and whether this signified a decline in anti-fraud measures by the platform. Jordan wanted to know, “Why did the entire legal team quit?” Wallace-Jones invoked the Fifth Amendment once more. He followed up by asking if ActBlue weakened its fraud standards for the benefit of Democratic candidates, receiving a similar reply.
This hearing comes after a Congressional report accused ActBlue of accepting illegal foreign donations and hiding these activities during the 2024 election cycle. The report pointed out that all members of the legal and compliance teams had either resigned, been terminated, or gone on sabbatical. ActBlue noted that subsequent media stories suggested these departures were linked to worries about its donation practices.
A separate report released in 2025 indicated that two changes ActBlue made in 2024 were believed to have led to a surge in fraudulent donations on its platform. Investigators accused the platform’s internal training materials of directing staff to find reasons to approve donations rather than flagging potentially suspicious transactions.
The House Administration Committee launched an inquiry into ActBlue in October 2023. In a letter to the committee’s chairman, Rep. Brian Still, then-CEO Regina Wallace-Jones affirmed that “only donations with passport information will be processed.” Since launching in 2004, ActBlue has raised over $19 billion for Democratic candidates and campaigns.
