Vir­ginia attor­ney gen­er­al demands answers about sus­pect­ed ‘dum­my accounts’ donat­ing to Democ­rats

Vir­ginia Attor­ney Gen­er­al Jason Miyares demand­ed answers about sus­pi­cious donor activ­i­ty on Act­Blue, a Demo­c­ra­t­ic polit­i­cal action com­mit­tee.
In July, con­ser­v­a­tive activists sound­ed the alarm on sus­pi­cious dona­tions made through Act­Blue, includ­ing some cas­es in which sin­gle donors made tens of thou­sands of sep­a­rate dona­tions worth hun­dreds of thou­sands of dol­lars. Miyares said Mon­day that he was aware of the alle­ga­tions and sent a let­ter to Act­Blue demand­ing answers Fri­day.
In the let­ter, he said the orga­ni­za­tion has been accused of “fraud­u­lent, decep­tive, and/or oth­er­wise ille­gal activ­i­ties in the Com­mon­wealth of Vir­ginia and/or have aid­ed and abet­ted oth­ers in doing so,” point­ing to instances of “hun­dreds of thou­sands of dol­lars of con­tri­bu­tions through indi­vid­ual donors in the …