Here’s how it works:

  • A person makes a donation to a left-leaning politician or organization.
  • Bogus donors then continue to make donations — sometimes thousands of them — using the original donor’s identity.
  • Many of the exploited donors are elderly and/or unemployed and have no idea their names and addresses are being used in the bogus donation scam.

The top “donor” in Arizona supposedly made 18,672 contributions in only three years, which breaks down to just over 17 donations per day.

Another person allegedly donated more money than the value of her home. Still another Tuscon woman claims she did not make the 18,000 donations made in her name, to the tune of $170,000, despite what the Federal Election Commission (FEC) records show.