Interested me enough to download some raw data on individual contributions, from the FEC, to see what I could find. I focused on AZ since it seems to be the most relevant example of some sort of fraud.
Didn’t take me long to find some interesting items, this cat isn’t the only one. So far the data seems to show it started in 2018.
Look at this “unemployed” person in Arizona for example. Been pretty busy contributing I would say…There is some generic looking empty profile to a University in AZ.
Just checked my zip and one person made every donation from pg 31-103 in 2020. Their donations started on pg 30 and ended on pg 104, but there was one other doner on each of those pages. This person was listed as “not employed.” A bunch of Act Blue charges.
Nope. Click the link above and type zip code. I actually came across the one “donor” by accident. I was looking for my name and was clicking about every 10 pages across. I was on page 40 something and accidentally jumped down to the complete next row on the next click instead of the over on the row I was on. When I noticed the name was the same, that’s when I started actually going page by page.
Maybe all those new IRS agents were hired to look into all these donations to see what hidden incomes these unemployed/retired people have that they can donate hundreds of thousands of dollars. I’m middle class and those neighborhoods O’Keefe went into look a lot like mine. I can’t afford what they were putting in and a mortgage over the course of a year. Hell a bunch of the donations alone were apparently above our household annual income.
I just watched my neighbor across the street go from GOP to nothing to DNC…. Good to know.
He also may have been in prison for a bit, so there is that… unusual name, but in 2016 an only then, a lot of activity under his name, and then it goes a way.
Can we swamp ActBlue with $1 donations? What is their processing cost?