{"id":77661,"date":"2026-08-20T11:56:50","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T16:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/20\/actblue-co-founder-pleads-fifth-amendment-in-closed-door-house-gop-grilling\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T11:56:50","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T16:56:50","slug":"actblue-co-founder-pleads-fifth-amendment-in-closed-door-house-gop-grilling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/20\/actblue-co-founder-pleads-fifth-amendment-in-closed-door-house-gop-grilling\/","title":{"rendered":"ActBlue co-founder pleads Fifth Amendment in closed-door House GOP grilling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>FIRST ON FOX:<\/strong> ActBlue co-founder Matt DeBergalis pleaded the Fifth Amendment during his closed-door deposition before three key House committees, sources familiar with the matter told Fox News Digital.<\/p>\n<p>The Committee on House Administration, House Oversight Committee, and House Judiciary Committee are conducting a joint investigation into ActBlue, a massive fundraising platform for Democrats, over allegations that lax fraud prevention standards may have allowed foreign donations to seep into U.S. campaigns.<\/p>\n<p>DeBergalis&#8217; deposition, which was scheduled for Thursday morning, lasted less than half an hour. He was seen entering and exiting the committee room within roughly 25 minutes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/foxnews.com\/politics\/far-left-politicians-still-using-actblue-88-year-old-disputes-donating-nearly-150000-fundraising-giant\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>FAR-LEFT POLITICIANS STILL USING ACTBLUE AS 88-YEAR-OLD DISPUTES DONATING NEARLY $150,000 TO FUNDRAISING GIANT<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>This story is breaking and will be updated&#8230;<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FIRST ON FOX: ActBlue co-founder Matt DeBergalis pleaded the Fifth Amendment during his closed-door deposition before three key House committees, sources familiar with the matter told Fox News Digital. The Committee on House Administration, House Oversight Committee, and House Judiciary Committee are conducting a joint investigation into ActBlue, a massive fundraising platform for Democrats, over &#8230; <a title=\"ActBlue co-founder pleads Fifth Amendment in closed-door House GOP grilling\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/20\/actblue-co-founder-pleads-fifth-amendment-in-closed-door-house-gop-grilling\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about ActBlue co-founder pleads Fifth Amendment in closed-door House GOP grilling\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}