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Federal investigators raided a Soros-funded voter mobilization group on Thursday as part of an ongoing fraud investigation.
MS Now reported that on June 11, FBI agents raided the Ohio Organizing Collaborative (OOC) headquarters and went across the state questioning members of the group, sometimes with subpoenas or electronic devices.
Multiple sources familiar with the events told CBS News a day later that the operations were part of a fraud-related investigation.
The raid is the latest flashpoint in the Trump administration’s expanded use of federal law enforcement to probe alleged voter fraud and election-related misconduct.
The push has been cheered by conservatives who have long argued such cases were underenforced and condemned by Democrats and voting rights groups who say the effort risks turning the FBI into a political weapon against liberal voter registration operations.
OOC is a nonprofit organization that partners with the Democratic Party in Ohio on voter mobilization and registration efforts. It is especially active in ballot referendums, using its huge network of donors, including the philanthropies of the Soros family.
The Justice Department declined to comment on the specifics of the alleged investigation.
“Search warrants are authorized by a judge, and anything said by any organization or others in the media is unfounded speculation, as the target of any investigation is not privy to the search warrant affidavit until after indictment,” a DOJ official told Fox News.
Last year, the group spent $250,000 to oppose a GOP-led effort to block codifying the right to an abortion in Ohio’s constitution and another $300,000 on a subsequent Republican redistricting effort.
OOC funds these things by tapping a deep well of liberal donors at the very top level.
Recent tax documents show the organization had more than $10 million in revenue in 2024.
OOC’s considerable financial resources are derived from a host of high-profile Democratic-aligned donor organizations like the Soros family’s philanthropies, New Venture Fund, and the Tides Foundation, as well as unions including the American Federation of Teachers and the Service Employees International Union.
Between 2019 and 2020, the Soros family’s Foundation to Promote Open Society gave OOC around $1.9 million.
In 2021, the Open Society Action Fund gave another $1 million to OOC’s sister organization, the Ohio Organizing Campaign, and followed up with another $1 million in 2023.
OOC has described the federal scrutiny as an example of the Trump administration politicizing the justice system.
OOC faced criticism in 2017 when a paid canvasser working with the group pleaded guilty to his involvement in a fraudulent voter registration operation.
Republicans, however, have yet to produce conclusive evidence of widespread voter fraud in recent election cycles.
“How can they distract and intimidate civil rights leaders and voters and community leaders who are helping people get registered to vote, and create a national spectacle about it?” Prentiss Haney, an OOC board member authorized to discuss the matter on behalf of the group, told MS Now.
“That is the only reason why they would choose to do that, do it now, in the middle of a contested political election in the state. There’s no other reason. They have no evidence of that,” Haney added.
Earlier this year, President Donald Trump called for federal racketeering charges against Soros and his son, Alexander.
“George Soros, and his wonderful Radical Left son, should be charged with RICO because of their support of Violent Protests, and much more, all throughout the United States of America,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
“We’re not going to allow these lunatics to rip apart America any more, never giving it so much as a chance to ‘BREATHE,’ and be FREE. Soros, and his group of psychopaths, have caused great damage to our Country! That includes his Crazy, West Coast friends. Be careful, we’re watching you! Thank you for your attention to this matter!” Trump added.
McConnell Health Cover-Up? Neighbor Goes Public with Shocking Eyewitness Stretcher Footage!
Neighbor Describes McConnell’s Condition Before Hospitalization
It’s been nearly a month since former GOP Senate leader Mitch McConnell was admitted to a hospital for an undisclosed illness.
Initial reports said that the retiring Kentucky senator, 84, had suffered a “cardiac arrest” requiring CPR.
But a neighbor has come forward after claiming they witnessed a “troubling scene” just days before McConnell was rushed to the hospital.
A male neighbor told the Daily Mail that McConnell appeared to be in bad shape even before June 14, when he was found unconscious at home and taken to a hospital.
Days before that, the neighbor said, he saw McConnell slumped in a wheelchair while staff carried him.
“I was able to get a good look at his face,” the man said. “He was pale, with a blank stare, and his mouth hanging open.”
Another neighbor, a woman who lives on McConnell’s block, told The Mail that she saw him get carried into an ambulance on June 14—while his staffers appeared “obviously distraught” and “crying.”
“When he came out, I actually wondered if he was dead. He did not look good. He was not conscious. His eyes were closed, he had oxygen [tubes] strapped to his nose,” she said.
“I knew by [his aides] running in and out that it was something serious,” she went on. “There weren’t a lot of sirens. That was the thing that was interesting.”
The woman said she witnessed two police officers carrying medical packs rush into McConnell’s home, adding that a police vehicle is “pretty well always” parked down the street when the senator is in town.
Other neighbors told The Mail they were stunned that McConnell has insisted on remaining in office.
“God bless them,” one neighbor who watched the stretcher go by said of McConnell and his team. “I would have retired. But for them, this is their life. They don’t know anything else.”
On Sunday, McConnell attempted to quiet rumors with a statement and a “proof of life” photo featuring him smiling and sitting up in what appeared to be a hospital bed alongside his wife, Elaine Chao.
The statement and photo came, strangely, shortly after the death of Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.).
It said:
To my fellow Kentuckians –
When you elected me to a seventh term and made me our Commonwealth’s longest serving Senator, you did so trusting that I’d keep showing up to fight for you every day. And over the past several weeks, Elaine and I have appreciated both your well wishes and your honest questions about what was keeping me away from the Senate.
You all know how folks of my generation often hesitate to share the vulnerability that comes with growing older. Even in the public eye, I feel that same instinct – I can’t help it.
McConnell went on to say he was hospitalized not because of any cardiac event, but because of a fall. He also said he had since developed a “mild case of pneumonia”:
But at the same time, I’ve had more than my share of experience with physical vulnerabilities. Surviving childhood polio meant spending my entire life with mobility challenges. They haven’t exactly gotten easier to manage with age. And last month, I took a fall which landed me in the hospital.
My doctors have confirmed that I didn’t break any bones or suffer a concussion. I didn’t have a heart attack or a stroke. I don’t have any tumors or hemorrhages. But I was briefly unconscious and was taken to the hospital. While receiving excellent care over the past several weeks, I’ve also had to deal with a mild case of pneumonia.
McConnell continued:
I can assure you that I’ve been a good patient. At my age, I tend to do what my doctors tell me to do. I’ve submitted to every test they can think of to help figure out what caused this incident. And I’m continuing to do everything they ask to speed my recovery. In fact, with signs of continued progress, I’ve been able to move from hospital care to a rehabilitation center where I’ll keep regaining my strength.
As much as it frustrates me, this process takes time. And on the advice of my doctors, I won’t be able to return to the Senate floor to vote quite yet. But rest assured that, in the meantime, I’m not taking a break from the Senate business that matters to you. I’ve been working closely with my legislative staff on current issues, and with my Kentucky team who help me provide timely constituent services across our Commonwealth. I’ve also been keeping in touch with my Senate colleagues on the appropriations process, midterm politics, and everything in between.
May you like
You’re right to expect your representatives to work hard for you. And part of my decision to retire at the end of my term this coming January was being honest about the demands of Senate work. But I still have unfinished business to complete on your behalf, and I have every intention of finishing the job you elected me to do.
I’ll keep working hard to get back on the Senate floor as soon as possible. And I’ll keep you posted on the progress of my recovery. Until then, I’m so grateful for your prayers and well wishes.
