On a Saturday morning last year, several of ActBlue’s lawyers and executives gathered on a video call to discuss a sensitive matter with the fundraising platform’s president and CEO.
A review by an outside law firm had raised questions about whether the organization had always taken the steps to stop illegal foreign contributions that Regina Wallace-Jones had told Congress it had.
Wallace-Jones was urged to alert ActBlue’s board of directors about a potential legal vulnerability. But according to people with familiar with the discussion, Wallace-Jones flatly rejected the idea.
“I refuse to let you
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