Five ActBlue Employees Plead the Fifth on 146 Questions During House Judiciary Depositions – EVERY Member of Legal & Compliance Was Fired, Quit, or on Extended Leave From Platform in 2025

On Monday, The Gateway Pundit reported that Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued ActBlue, the Democrat fundraising platform, for “deceiving Americans by lying about its donation processes that allow fraudulent and foreign donations.”  This was following an internal investigation that “prove[d] that ActBlue continues to process gift card donations” without proving identification of the donor.

The same day, the House Judiciary Committee deposed five employees after subpoenas were issued to two employees in June 2025 by Reps. Jim Jordan, Bryan Steil, and James Comer.  The recent depositions included “top staff responsible for fraud prevention” and sought to “learn more about the platform’s acceptance of illegal donations – and the subsequent cover-up,” according to a post on X by the House Judiciary GOP.

The Committees deposed five ActBlue employees, including top staff responsible for fraud prevention, to learn more about the platform’s acceptance of illegal donations—and the subsequent cover-up.

In total, we asked them 146 questions.

They refused to answer a single one,… pic.twitter.com/aIpoJvvfuZ

— House Judiciary GOP (@JudiciaryGOP) April 20, 2026

The House Judiciary GOP account states that the five employees were asked 146 questions and that the ActBlue employees “refused to answer a single one, invoking their Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination every time.”

The questions included:

• Is there any reason you are unable to provide truthful answers to today’s questions?
• Have ActBlue executives ever instructed you to allow more fraud on the platform or weaken ActBlue’s fraud-prevention defenses?
• Have you ever been part of a conspiracy to launder foreign money into fraudulent donations for campaigns using ActBlue?
• Did members of ActBlue’s legal and compliance teams leave ActBlue after the 2024 election because of the platform’s inability to prevent fraud during previous election cycles?

 

Entire Legal & Compliance Team Was Fired/Quit/On Leave Since Early 2025

The House Judiciary GOP also disclosed for the first time that ActBlue’s entire legal and compliance team was either fired, quit, or went on extended leave in early 2025.

In March 2025, the New York Times reported that “at least seven senior officials” had left the Democrat fundraising platform, noting in the article that Zain Ahmad “was the last remaining lawyer in the ActBlue general counsel’s office.”  He was reportedly on leave and “his access to email and other internal platforms had been cut off” and the messages he had on Slack had been deleted.

Former General Counsel Darrin Hurwitz left ActBlue in November 2024, according to the post, and received a “generous severance package” while promising to “cooperate with ActBlue…in connection with any current or future investigation” – including the House Judiciary’s investigation.

Aaron Ting replaced Hurwitz as the “head of legal,” moving up from an advisor to the fraud prevention team.  When offered the job full-time, he instead left ActBlue.

Ting’s resignation letter, “which ActBlue continues to improperly withhold from the Committees,” stated grave “concerns” about its “past practices for screening political donations from abroad and its past representations to Congress regarding foreign donations and related matters,” according to the House Judiciary GOP thread.

Following Ting’s departure, Ahmad was the only remaining lawyer at ActBlue, verifying the New York Times’ reporting.  An internal message alleging that Ahmad has been retaliated against for making a whistleblower claim has been withheld from the Committees as well.

In an image posted in the thread, it states, “in an incredibly alarming development this week, our only remaining Legal Counsel on staff posted in a Slack channel and alluded to possible violations of our Time Off and Leave Policy, Non-Retaliation Policy, and Whistleblower Protection Policy.  Their messages were swiftly deleted from the channel without acknowledgment.”

One employee called this practice “sad,” “avoidable and preventable,” and noted that “historically, this hasn’t been the standard practice (we have receipts)” while stating, “Frankly, this looks like blatant retaliation, and people are noticing.”

Subsequent messages suggest that Candace King, ActBlue’s top HR official, relented and allowed Ahmad access to his accounts “on one condition:  she could spy on Ahmad’s emails and keep the cover-up intact.”

 

 

Following Ahmad going on extended leave, the Director of Compliance Eric Hoke “either quit…or was fired.”  Hoke had been at ActBlue for more than 12 years.  A week later, legal and compliance’s last staffer, a junior analyst, left the company.

The House Judiciary GOP concludes the thread by stating:

Add it all up, and the story is simple:

ActBlue accepted illegal foreign donations, misrepresented its fraud-prevention practices to Congress, and withheld documents responsive to the Committees’ subpoenas.

All three of those are federal crimes.

NEW REPORT: ACTBLUE EMPLOYEES TAKE THE FIFTH WHEN ASKED ABOUT FOREIGN FRAUD AND WHISTLEBLOWER RETALIATION AT THE DEMOCRAT DONATION PLATFORM

THREAD:

— House Judiciary GOP (@JudiciaryGOP) April 20, 2026

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