According to the January 14, 2025, Times Union, Saratoga Springs Accounts Commissioner Dillon Moran is under investigation by the New York State Board of Elections (NYSBOE) regarding an obscene entry in the financial report for Joe Seeman’s recent unsuccessful New York State Assembly campaign.
The report (see above) has an entry that records that someone calling themselves Jack Meehoff made a $100.00 contribution. The donor’s address is listed as Dillon Moran’s home. The NYSBOE was able to determine that the payment came from the website ActBlue and was drawn from Moran’s PayPal account.
Moran told the Times Union, “I have never made any such donation…None of it makes any sense… [I] can’t find any logical reason [aside from a hack].”
Seeman defended Moran, claiming that Moran’s PayPal account must have been hacked.
“He was not approaching any limit; it’s not like he needed to be a hidden donor,” Seeman said. “… I can only attest to Dillon being a person of integrity and there is no reason why he would try to hide this.”
The story reports:
According to the state Board of Elections, making a contribution under a false name is a violation of state Election Law 14-120, which states that “no person shall in any name except his own, directly or indirectly, make a payment or a promise of a payment to a candidate or a political committee.”
In a full-throated defense of Moran, Seeman, without any evidence, blamed the Republican Party.
“My only take in this is given the GOP is the party of lying, corruption, Machiavellian attempts to do anything to win, it sounds and smells like another GOP dirty trick,” Seeman said.
To elaborate on the obvious, if someone were to hack Moran’s PayPal account, they would buy Rolex Watches from Amazon and not just make a modest contribution to Joe Seeman’s campaign that few people will even know about.
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Has Dillon Moran filed a report with the SSPD and with the security department of PayPal regarding the $100 allegedly stolen from his account? PayPal would be especially concerned about Jack being able to circumvent their system in order to steal $100 from Dillon to benefit the Joe Seeman campaign. Jack is in big trouble!
Chris Mathiesen
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Would a FOIL request be a way to find that out? This whole thing is bizarre to say the least.
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PayPal is not subject to FOIL
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John,
I meant to suggest doing a FOIL request for the SSPD not PayPal. Thanks.
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What specifically would you ask for?
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I just want to make sure I am understanding this correctly – on Halloween, a hacker decided to target Dillon Moran’s PayPal account, such that they could make a $100 donation via Dillon’s Act Blue account to Joe Seeman’s campaign. And this alleged hacker used Jack Meehoff as the name under which they donated, presumably because they are 12 years old and thought it was hysterical – then logged out of Dillon’s accounts without taking any more money from his PayPal account. And all the while, Moran got no alerts of suspicious logins or strange activity… no two step verification prompts, nothing, nada?
Someone must think we were all born yesterday and don’t realize this moment of idiocy is completely on brand for him. Reads to me like it was a stupid late night joke that a stressed out, embattled city council member made and forgot about.
Or he was hacked. lol.
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The hack is not Jack. There was no Jack hack.
In spite of this hysterical quote “I can only attest to Dillon being a person of integrity and there is no reason why he would try to hide this.” ……the only reasonable conclusion is that Jack is really Dillon. As I said before, the word integrity, and Dillon, don’t belong in the same sentence.
So, how many investigations are there involving Dillon already? The attorney overpayment, without authorization. The on-call pay dispute. And now this?
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Interesting scenario. There is absolutely no way to conclusively prove Dillon typed that alias into a computer. There is also no justification to spend a single investigative or judicial dollar to look into this.
Dillon should simply request that Act Blue change the database entry to his correct name and look into its cyberlogs to note any unauthorized activity.
Any Detective will note that whomever brought this attention to the media may have a connection to the act.
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