VIDEO: James O’Keefe’s Latest Expose’ Blows Up The ActBlue Scam

The last we’d heard from conservative investigative journalist and impresario James O’Keefe was something of a headscratcher; namely, that the board at Project Veritas, the media organization he’d founded, had forced him out as CEO over what seemed to come down to a personality difference – and this happened in the wake of possibly O’Keefe’s finest moment since his brilliant takedown of ACORN back in 2009. You would have thought nobody at Project Veritas would want to change much of anything after O’Keefe got video of a Pfizer employee talking about how the pharmaceutical company was conducting “directed evolution” research on COVID-19, but you’d be wrong.

And so O’Keefe is now back on his own with a new media operation, this one called O’Keefe Media Group, and he’s got a new project.

This one is potentially a big deal as well.

ActBlue has always come off as a shady vehicle for the Democrats. It’s essentially a catch-all for people on the Left to donate to candidates and causes, and it’s way more successful than the GOP’s WinRed, which is supposed to be the analog. For years, Republicans have been trying to figure out how Team Blue has managed to leverage so many small-dollar contributions for so much money, but yet before O’Keefe came along there hasn’t been a ton of investigation into the guts of the operation.

Which is not to say that conservative watchdogs haven’t been screaming about this. Nobody’s been listening.

Now that O’Keefe has come along, and he’s encouraging people to chase down all of these leads and get them on video, what you have is something which might become pretty delicious.

Essentially, what this looks like is that if you donate money to something through ActBlue, your name an address then becomes a filter for God-knows-who to funnel money to Democrats.

For example, it took us no time at all to find a New Orleans resident named Cornelius Maneaux who’s listed as “not employed” but nevertheless donated to ActBlue some 847 times between January 4, 2021 and December 31, 2022 in amounts ranging from $1 to $100 for a total of $18,276.54.

And here’s the house listed as the address on those donations. We found it by looking up the address on Google Maps.

Nobody who lives in that house and is listed as “not employed” has $18,000 to give to ActBlue over a two year period. That’s clear.

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Then there’s Gail Hester, who’s listed alternatively as “not employed” or employed by “Gray Line,” and whose LinkedIn says she’s a former schoolteacher. FEC data has Hester making 396 donations through ActBlue for $5,068.74 from January 22, 2021 to December 31, 2022, in amounts ranging from 50 cents to $100.

It doesn’t look, based on Hester’s address, that she wouldn’t be able to afford five grand in political donations. But why would anybody bother donating 50 cents or 60 cents? That isn’t worth the time to do.

All in all, there are 116,232 ActBlue donations listed from January 1, 2021 through December 31, 2022 just from New Orleans addresses alone.

And while many of them look legitimate, a lot of them don’t. There are strange donation amounts – somebody donating $17.76 seems to make some sense, for example, but $7.06 really doesn’t, and yet there were 24,910 donations of $7.06 to ActBlue nationally in 2021 and 2022.

This is the kind of thing which should have been looked into a long time ago, and not by James O’Keefe but by law enforcement agencies.

Maybe O’Keefe’s new venture will spark such investigations. Maybe they’ll be undertaken here in Louisiana by the appropriate authorities, because clearly something strange is happening.

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