COLUMBIA — A major Democratic fundraising platform says allegations of fraud by South Carolina’s attorney general are false and part of a broader campaign to discredit it.
Massachusetts-based ActBlue — a platform that processes donations to Democratic campaigns — dismissed allegations from Alan Wilson, the state attorney general, in an eight-page response that his office shared with the SC Daily Gazette. Wilson’s office did not provide any comment on the letter or information about next steps the attorney general might take...
...In late August, Wilson sent ActBlue a letter alleging the platform may have split large donations into smaller donations to avoid campaign limits, which he likened to a “smurfing” money-laundering scheme.
He also says the platform may have allowed for “straw donors,” when one person makes a donation on behalf of another. Wilson also said he was concerned about apparently large donations being made in South Carolina by people listed as unemployed.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/democratic-fundraising-platform-says-allegations-185821047.html
