ActBlue, a Democrat fundraising group that raised millions for Democrat presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris, is being sued by a GOP strategist who says the group stole his identity to make almost $1,000 in fraudulent donations.

Mark Block, a Wisconsin strategist who worked for the presidential campaign of Herman Cain, has filed a racketeering lawsuit against ActBlue and is seeking an injunction to prevent the group from making any other donations in his name.

Block said the donations are known as "smurfing," which is a form of money laundering that involves breaking up larger donations into smaller ones that don't individually surpass the contribution limits and disguise the actual donor of the funds.

Wisconsin law considers smurfing a form of racketeering activity, which is illegal.

Big problem

Block found the donation receipts in his old email account linked to the Cain campaign. There were 35 receipts for donations earmarked to Harris and one for an LGBTQ campaign.

This type of donation in the names of others who don't know they are happening is already under investigation by the House Committee on House Administration.

Experts hired by the committee have used AI to look at over 200 million FEC records from the last 14 years, looking for suspicious trends such as hundreds of $2.50 donations from the same person and frequent donations by the elderly and first-time donors.

Other lawsuits are expected to be filed in a number of states over the same type of activity.

"Part of a larger pattern"

“While fraudulent donations of such small amounts may seem inefficacious, this pattern is able to exploit a loophole for federal reporting requirements,” says Block’s lawsuit. “The ActBlue Donations appear to be part of a larger pattern of suspicious activity.”

The defendant named in the lawsuit is "John Doe," an unidentified donor from whose American Express card most of the donations came.

“By making these fraudulent donations, John Doe participated in the operation of ActBlue’s particular business model: providing small donor campaign contributions to Democratic campaigns and organizations to advance left-leaning policies," the complaint read. "Defendant John Doe has used [Block’s] personal identifying information to benefit the ActBlue Campaigns and circumvent federal requirements prohibiting the use of another person’s name to make political contributions.”

Chairman of the House Administration Committee Bryan Steil (WI) said he referred his findings of “potential criminal activity” to the Republican attorneys general of Arkansas, Florida, Missouri, Texas and Virginia for further investigation.

So now we know how Democrats have been able to rack up such large donations even when they don't have as much support as they want everyone to think.

They just don't seem to be able to do anything the right and proper way, so we probably shouldn't be surprised that once again, they are trying to cheat their way to the presidency and as many other downstream offices as possible.