A class action filed without legal representation accuses the DNC of rerouting donations meant for Senator Sanders's presidential campaign.

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A Fort Wayne, Indiana resident who last year contributed $30 to Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaign filed a proposed class action on October 26 against DNC Services Corp., more commonly known as the Democratic National Committee (DNC), and some of its top officials and key IT employees.

The plaintiff, a registered Democrat and self-described citizen journalist who filed the complaint in the District of Columbia without attorney representation, alleges the defendants “hacked the DNC services, copying critical information” on the group’s entire donor and volunteer database while engineering a “sophisticated email phishing attack against Bernie Sanders supporters nationwide” by changing the URL of the DNC’s donation processing company, ActBlue, by one letter. This URL change, from ActBlue.com to ActBlues.com, the plaintiff claims, routed donations intended for Sanders “to bank accounts controlled by Debbie Wasserman-Schultz and/or Imran Awan.”

From the lawsuit:

“[The defendants] (sans [one individual]) concocted a false narrative that the Russian government had been responsible for the hacking and phishing attacks. [The defendants] (sans [one individual] intended that the false statements and omissions would induce the DNC Donor Class Plaintiffs, the Sanders Donor Class Plaintiffs, and members of the DNC Donor Class and the Sanders Donor Class, to rely on them for continuing contributions and these conspiratorial attacks.”