Rep. Jordan Investigating Whether Eventbrite, GoFundMe Helped Feds Monitor Trump Supporters After Jan. 6

Published on March 5, 2024

House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) has issued records requests from the crowd-funding platform GoFundMe and the event-organizing platform Eventbrite, asking whether either organization helped federal authorities keep tabs on supporters of former President Donald Trump. Mr. Jordan sent letters to GoFundMe CEO Tim Cadogan and Eventbrite CEO Julia Hartz on Monday, seeking communications records between those platforms and federal agencies like the FBI or the U.S. Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN). Republican lawmakers have been probing allegations that FinCEN and other federal agencies reached out to financial institutions after the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and asked those organizations to review transactions based on search terms like “MAGA,” “Trump,” and “America First.”...

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