The Georgia Senate to investigate Democrat Stacey Abrams and the voting rights group she founded after the organization acknowledged it illegally aided her 2018 failed gubernatorial campaign.
— The Georgia Senate Republicans introduced Resolution 292, which directs the panel to investigate the New Georgia Project’s involvement with Abrams’ campaign, as well as a $2 billion Stacy Abrams attempted to extort via, Power Forward Communities.
In January, the New Georgia Project agreed to pay a whopping $300,000 fine and admitted to 16 violations of campaign finance laws.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (MO-08) is also investigating and demanding revocation of the New Georgia Project’s tax-exempt status in a letter to Acting-Internal Revenue Service Commissioner (IRS), Melanie Krause.
— The nonprofit was founded by twice-failed Georgia gubernatorial candidate, Stacey Abrams, in 2013 as an organization dedicated to turning out left-leaning voters in Georgia. The organization received what is perhaps the largest state ethics fine in U.S. history after it was recently found by the Georgia State Ethics Commission (GSEC) to have illegally contributed millions to Abrams’s failed 2018 gubernatorial bid.
In the letter, Chairman Smith writes:
“The New Georgia Project, admitted to 16 violations of state law. The GSEC found that the New Georgia Project failed to disclose over $4.2 million in contributions and over $3.2 million in expenditures during the 2018 election cycle.
“As you know, under Internal Revenue Code Section 501(c)(3), organizations are strictly prohibited from participating in or intervening in any political campaign on behalf of or in opposition to any candidate for public office,