Matt Gaetz Introduces Legislation To Prevent Campaign Donation Fraud
The bill is titled the "Put Zombie Donors to Rest Act"
https://dailycaller.com/2023/05/24/matt-gaetz-legislation-prevent-campaign-donation-fraud-okeefe/
https://twitter.com/henryrodgersdc/status/1661377317766062081
“Through the diligent efforts of citizen journalists, OMG has uncovered potentially millions of dollars in campaign donation fraud. Unidentified entities or individuals are using the identities of American citizens to perpetrate fraudulent campaign contributions. Termed as ‘zombie donors,’ these fraudulent transactions exploit payment methods that possess scant or negligible identity authentication mechanisms,” Rep. Matt Gaetz (@ RepMattGaetz) told the @ DailyCaller before introducing the bill.
“The ‘Put Zombie Donors to Rest Act’ aims to amend the Internal Revenue Code and mandates the inclusion of both a credit verification value (CVV) and a billing address as mandatory requirements for confirming the donor’s true identity, cross-referencing it with the corresponding address or banking information,” Rep. Matt Gaetz
“The corporate press, who regularly combs through publicly available FEC data, had an opportunity to uncover this but did not.
It took citizen journalists to not just flag the data but to corroborate findings in states across the country. Rep. Gaetz’s bill is a reminder of what journalism can do when in the hands of the people. If it weren’t for the citizen journalists inspired by O’Keefe Media Group’s Maryland investigation who hit the streets and highlighted this apparently fraudulent scheme in other states, we might not have arrived at this moment.
This story, however, is far from over and questions remain. I look forward to transparency from Act Blue and other major credit card processors in our political system because through that transparency lies the answer of who may be the funders and architects of this scheme which targets senior citizens,” O’Keefe added.