Stacey Abrams’ nonprofit hit with largest fine in state history for illegally using funds to support her 2018 bid for governor
http://nypost.com/2025/01/15/us-news/stacey-abrams-nonprofit-hit-with-largest-fine-in-state-history-for-illegally-using-funds-to-support-her-2018-bid-for-governor/
A voter registration nonprofit founded by former Georgia state Rep. Stacey Abrams secretly boosted her 2018 gubernatorial bid in violation of campaign finance law and was slapped with a $300,000 fine Wednesday.
The New Georgia Project and its action fund fessed up spending $3.2 million to foot the bill for canvassers and fliers supporting Abrams, 51, and others without disclosing those contributions. It agreed to pay the fine from Georgia’s ethics commission. ...
New Georgia Project also neglected to register as an independent campaign committee in a breach of state law. In total, there were at least 16 instances of infractions, the ethics panel concluded.
In 2019, a year after the governor’s race, both groups also failed to divulge $646,000 worth of donations as well as $174,000 worth of spending to back a failed referendum for Gwinnett County to join the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority.
The ethics fine slapped against the two groups is the largest of its kind in the ethics commission’s 38-year history, according to executive director David Emadi. It concludes a six-year battle between the ethics commission and the nonprofits. ...
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