The CEO of the Democratic fundraising platform ActBlue was a font of absolutely no information during a Capitol Hill hearing on Wednesday.
Regina Wallace-Jones gave the same answer to every question — invoking her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination — throughout the hearing, provoking a shocked response from Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-GA) when she offered the same response to a question about her name.
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Apparently, even the preferred usage of the ActBlue CEO’s name is protected under the 5th Amendment. pic.twitter.com/9tJhqRcwCQ
— Rep. Barry Loudermilk (@RepLoudermilk) June 10, 2026
“So I do have a series of questions for you, but I want to make sure I’m respectful. Is it Miss Jones or Miss Wallace-Jones?” Loudermilk asked.
“On the advice of my counsel, I respectfully decline to answer this question pursuant to my Fifth Amendment rights under the Constitution,” Wallace-Jones replied, prompting a few laughs in the room.
“Okay, wow! Okay, didn’t, uh … expect that one,” Loudermilk reacted in surprise.
But Wallace-Jones also refused to answer the more substantive questions — including a series of questions from Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) about whether ActBlue had allowed illegal foreign donations to pass through the platform or had weakened fraud safeguards to help Democrats.
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After Rep. Garcia (D-CA) claimed that the hearing on ActBlue is nothing more than a charade, Rep. Jim Jordan made him eat his own words.
“Let’s be clear. We’re here because ACTBlue’s legal counsel said Ms. Wallace-Jones lied to Congress, willfully and knowingly misled the… pic.twitter.com/493tQJLH0R
— Andrew Kolvet (@AndrewKolvet) June 10, 2026
Jordan, pushing back on claims from Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) that the hearing was more of a political performance than substance, pointed out that statements from ActBlue’s former legal counsel had prompted the hearing.
As laid out in a press release from the House Judiciary Committee in April, former ActBlue general counsel Darrin Hurwitz, ex-director and associate general counsel Aaron Ting, and former counsel Zain Ahmad all parted ways with ActBlue after warning that unspecified changes to fraud standards could leave the political action committee and fundraising platform open to legal risks.
In the investigation that followed, ActBlue employees invoked their 5th Amendment rights at least 146 times — and Wallace-Jones did the same throughout her hearing on Wednesday, declining to answer questions such as:
- “How much fraud is too much fraud?”
- “How many foreign contributions did ACTBlue accept?”
- “How much money did ACTBlue accept from Russia?”
- “Why did your entire legal team quit, your in-house legal team?”
- “Did your legal team quit because of reduced fraud standards?”
- “Did you weaken your fraud standards to help Democrats?”
“The crux of this misconduct is simple: ActBlue appears to have accepted illegal foreign donations en masse and tried to cover it up, lying to and withholding information from Congress in the process,” the Judiciary Committee’s report concluded.
