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Federal investigators raided a Soros-funded voter mobilization group on Thursday as part of a reported ongoing fraud investigation.
FBI agentsraided the headquarters of the Ohio Organizing Collaborative (OOC) on June 11. deployed across the state to question members of the organization, sometimes bearing subpoenas or demanding to seize electronic devices, MS Now reported. A day later. multiple sources familiar with the events told CBS News that the operations were part of a fraud-related investigation.
The raid marks the latest flashpoint in the Trump administration’s expanded use offederal law enforcementto scrutinize alleged voter fraud. election-related misconduct, a push cheered by conservatives who have long argued such cases were under-enforced 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 works closely with the Democratic Party in Ohio on voter mobilization and registration efforts. It is especially active in ballot referendums. tapping its vast donor network that includes the Soros family's philanthropies, to do so.
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Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche speaks during a news conference about the Trump administration's fraud crackdown as he's flanked by federal. state officials in Ohio on Thursday, June 4, 2026.(WBNS via NNS)
TheDepartment of Justicehas declined to comment on the specifics of the purported investigation.
"Search warrants are authorized by a judge. 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 Digital.
A voter fills out a mail-in ballot at the Board of Elections office in the Allegheny County Office Building in Pittsburgh. Pennsylvania, on Nov. 3, 2022.(Jeff Swensen/Getty Images)
The group previously spent $250,000 in 2023 to oppose a GOP-led effort to block the right to anabortionfrom being enshrined in Ohio’s constitution. spent a further $300,000 against a Republican redistricting effort a year later.
OOC finances these expenditures by tapping a deep network of top-level liberal donors.
Recent tax documents show that the organization had over $10 million in revenue during 2024. OOC’s considerable financial resources are provided by a variety of high-profile Democratic-aligned donor organizations, including the Soros family’s philanthropies, New Venture Fund. the Tides Foundation as well as unions such as the American Federation of Teachers and the Service Employees International Union.
The Soros family's Foundation to Promote Open Society gave OOC roughly $1.9 million between 2019 and 2020. In 2021. Open Society Action Fund gave an additional $1 million to OOC's sister organization, the Ohio Organizing Campaign, followed by another $1 million donation in 2023.
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OOC has characterized the federal scrutiny as an example of the Trump administration politicizing the justice system.
"How can they distract. intimidatecivil rightsleaders 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."
OOC previously came under fire in 2017 when a paid canvasser working with the group pleaded guilty over his involvement in afraudulent voter registration operation. Republicans, however, have yet to produce conclusive evidence of widespread voter fraud in recent election cycles.
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The Ohio State Capitol building stands in Columbus, Ohio.(Joe Sohm/Visions of America/Universal Images Group)
OOC did not respond to a request for comment when reached by Fox News Digital on Monday.
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