BOMBSHELL Part 1: Billion-Dollar “Magic Mortgage” Fraud Scheme Unveiled by Arizona Election Watchdog

TUCSON, AZ- It appears that Black Lives Matter wasn’t the only left-leaning organization that was allegedly committing fraud using donor money

The Gateway Pundit reports that Arizona State Senator Mark Finchem, who also serves as the executive director of the Election Fairness Institute (EFI), along with former Tennessee assistant police chief Shawn Taylor, senior research analyst for EFI, have been probing ActBlue, the fundraising arm of the Democratic Party.

The outlet reports it “may be the largest money laundering and real estate fraud scheme in U.S. history. 

According to exclusive evidence shared with The Gateway Pundit and Unleashed.news, “suspicious property transactions totaling in the billions are now under review,” with evidence thus far pointing squarely in the direction of top leadership at ActBlue, its donor network, and a number of accomplices. 

Investigators have uncovered something called the “Magic Mortgage” money laundering scheme, which is tied directly to ActBlue and its donor channels.

By using inflated property sales and same-day flips, funds are directed to channel illicit funds through U.S. financial and political systems. 

The investigation, spanning multiple years, saw Finchem’s team and whistleblower Taylor, a former police officer from Millersville, Tennessee, uncover “patterns of multiple same-day property transfers where values were inflated by as much as 100 times the original sale price,” sometimes within the same day, or even hours. 

The evidence appears to be incontrovertible.

EFI obtained sales histories from LexisNexis, considered “one of the most trusted, top–tier real estate and public records platforms,” and is “widely regarded as the gold standard in aggregating property and deed records directly from county recorder and clerk offices” nationwide, The Gateway Pundit reported. 

Unleashed.news conducted interviews with Finchem and Taylor and reviewed a significant amount of documentation.

They have already shared their evidence with the Department of Justice and the FBI, which indicates that a federal probe is forthcoming, along with the possibility of congressional hearings. The latter appears to already be in motion. 

According to a media release on July 22, three House committees were seeking to subpoena ActBlue, accusing the platform of having accepted “fraudulent or illegal” donations for far-left candidates.

On April 2, 2025, the Committees “requested documents and communications related to internal misconduct and whistleblower retaliation at ActBlue.” While the organization initially cooperated, it later suspended its cooperation, leading to the subpoena. 

The subpoena was issued by Committee on House Administration Chair Bryan Stell (R-WIs.), House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky.), and House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan (R-Ohio). 

In March, the House committees sent a letter to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent where they raised concerns about ActBlue. They noted in the previous Congress that they had made requests from then-Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen for Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) relevant to their probe of ActBlue. They told Bessent that the Biden administration “initially stalled the Committees’ requests in its entirety for months.”

However, shortly before Biden left office on January 2, 2025, “Treasury allowed the Committees to review only limited documents.” The committees requested the remaining documents. 

“What we are seeing looks like the motherlode of all money laundering schemes,” Finchem said. “It’s so vast that it touches everything: political slush funds, cartel money, human trafficking proceeds, and possibly even CCP [Chinese Communist Party] cash being funneled into the U.S.”

“There are just too many of these 100% same-day spike transactions for this to be dismissed as a simple scrivener’s error,” Taylor said. “When the numbers jump by a factor of 100 in a matter of hours, across multiple properties and states, it points to something deliberate and systemic.”

Those real estate transactions included multi-million dollar transactions across numerous properties in California and Texas, a press release read.

A majority of those sales were made with private cash lenders, which is a red flag for money laundering. Often, a property was sold at market value and, within the same day, transferred again for 100 times the amount.

EFI believes the suspicious value spikes are “estimated to hit billions of dollars.” 

Moreover, the transactions coincided with major election cycles, which EFI says were done to circumvent the McCain-Feingold Act safeguards against soft-money contributions. 

“This isn’t just about real estate fraud. This is about the financial pipelines that fuel everything rotten in America right now,” Finchem said.

“When you see numbers this big, you’re looking at cartel money, you’re looking at human trafficking cash, you’re looking at foreign adversaries buying influence through corrupted systems. We are going to follow the money.” 

The Gateway Pundit noted this was the first in a series of reports that will follow this story. Law Enforcement Today will follow up as additional information becomes available.

The outlet asked any “whistleblower, real estate professional, or government official with knowledge of suspicious property transactions” to contact Unleashed.news at jsullivan@legalbrains.com. 

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