Paxton sues ActBlue, alleging platform enabled illegal foreign donations to Democrats

Source: Dallas Morning News

AUSTIN – Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton sued the national Democratic fundraising platform ActBlue on Monday, accusing it of allowing fraudulent and foreign donations through its system.

The suit alleges the platform – which raised more than half a million dollars in the first three months of this year – knowingly permitted untraceable prepaid cards and “straw donations,” and misled investigators about safeguards meant to block illegal contributions.

Leaders at the platform, which has processed more than $16 billion in donations since it launched in 2004, denied any wrongdoing and called the suit “a thinly veiled attempt to distract from Ken Paxton’s numerous legal and ethical issues ahead of next month’s runoff.”

Paxton and Sen. John Cornyn are in a heated GOP runoff May 26, with the winner taking on Democratic nominee James Talarico in November.

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