{"id":1914610,"date":"2023-04-14T02:25:59","date_gmt":"2023-04-14T06:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rubio-urges-federal-election-commission-to-investigate-allegedly-fraudulent-actblue-donations\/"},"modified":"2023-04-14T02:32:32","modified_gmt":"2023-04-14T06:32:32","slug":"rubio-urges-federal-election-commission-to-investigate-allegedly-fraudulent-actblue-donations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rubio-urges-federal-election-commission-to-investigate-allegedly-fraudulent-actblue-donations\/","title":{"rendered":"Rubio Urges Federal Election Commission to Investigate Allegedly Fraudulent ActBlue Donations"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frubio-urges-federal-election-commission-to-investigate-allegedly-fraudulent-actblue-donations%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1914610&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<div class=\"post_content\">\n<div class=\"aplayer_app\" data-source=\"https:\/\/vs1.youmaker.com\/assets\/2023\/0413\/8e828da2-6a5e-4448-88be-b08905463626\/audio.mp3?length=1981773&#038;duration=165\"><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Senator Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) has urged the Federal Election Commission (FEC) to initiate an investigation following allegations by journalists that people listed as donating tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars to Democrats did not actually donate nearly as much. ActBlue, a nonprofit that facilitates donations to Democratic candidates, has been implicated in these fraudulent activities.<\/p>\n<p>Rubio wrote to FEC officials about the \u201cdisturbing reports\u201d indicating that ActBlue was reporting \u201cfraudulent donations\u201d to the FEC. According to investigative reports, multiple individuals, including senior citizens, were duped into having their names and addresses used to donate thousands of dollars in political contributions, with most of these donations going to ActBlue. <\/p>\n<p>Journalist James O\u2019Keefe played a significant role in uncovering the fraudulent activities when he reported on his discussions with multiple people listed as having donated substantial funds to candidates, who said they did not donate nearly as much as they were said to have contributed.<\/p>\n<p>As other reporters began to probe further, they found that the donations of more individuals did not match their statements.<\/p>\n<p>An FEC spokesperson refused to comment on the allegations, and ActBlue has not responded to any requests for comment.<\/p>\n<h2>\u2018No Surprise\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>Rubio stated that he was not surprised by what was uncovered.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt should come as no surprise that ActB<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A U.S. senator is urging the\u00a0Federal Election Commission (FEC) to investigate after journalists found people listed as having donated tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars to Democrats saying they did not donate nearly as much. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) told FEC officials that the \u201calarming reports\u201d indicate that there were \u201cfraudulent donations being reported<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":1914611,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[23495,4845,3734,4303,3728,3974,16169,4235,5438,4399],"class_list":["post-1914610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times","tag-actblue","tag-allegedly","tag-commission","tag-donations","tag-election","tag-federal","tag-fraudulent","tag-investigate","tag-rubio","tag-urges"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1914610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1914610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1914610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1914611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1914610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1914610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1914610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}