Acting Blue: evidence of fraudulent political donations targeting retirees

Acting Blue: evidence of fraudulent political donations targeting retirees

Dominic Rapini, a cybersecurity professional and 2022 Republican candidate for Connecticut’s secretary of the state, has been investigating straw donors—individuals who pose as a second-party and fraudulently make a donation in their name—and has identified $2 million in donations through ActBlue made in the name of 18 different Connecticut residents, most of whom are elderly or retired.Rapini believes all of them are straw donors, and five have…