A dubious voter rights group founded by race-baiting political opportunist Stacey Abrams has been hit with the heftiest ethics fine in Georgia history for campaign finance violations that election law experts are describing as “disgusting,” “shameful,” and hypocritical.

Pro-Stacey Abrams groups to pay record fine for breaking Georgia campaign finance law ATLANTA — The Georgia Ethics Commission voted unanimously on Wednesday to fine two advocacy groups that were founded by Democrat Stacey Abrams and led by Raphael Warnock before voters elected him to the U.S. Senate. The commission found that the New Georgia Project and its affiliated New Georgia Project Action Fund illegally did election work for Abrams and others without disclosing their campaign contributions and spending. The groups' current leadership admitted 16 instances of illegal activity in...

A nonprofit founded by former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams agreed on Wednesday to pay a record $300,000 fine for violating state campaign finance laws. The Georgia Ethics Commission voted unanimously to impose the fine after it found that the nonprofit New Georgia Project, and the related New Georgia Project Action Fund, did not disclose its campaign contributions to Abrams' candidacy for governor in 2018 despite advocating for her, NBC News reported. Abrams, who founded the New Georgia Project in 2013, lost the election to Georgia GOP Gov. Brian Kemp....

A nonprofit organization founded by Stacey Abrams has agreed to pay a $300,000 fine for violating campaign finance laws over its spending in support of the Georgia Democrat's candidacy during the 2018 governor's race. The Georgia Ethics Commission voted unanimously Wednesday to impose the penalty after finding that the New Georgia Project, which Abrams founded in 2013, and the affiliated New Georgia Project Action Fund had not disclosed their campaign contributions and spending after advocating for Abrams during the race that she lost to Gov. Brian Kemp. "These expenditures included,...

A charity led by Sen. Raphael Warnock (D., Ga.) in 2018 illegally campaigned in support of Democrat Stacey Abrams's failed Georgia gubernatorial campaign that year, the group admitted before state authorities on Wednesday. Warnock was the chairman of the New Georgia Project when the charity and its affiliated dark-money group engaged in a full-bore effort to elect Abrams in 2018, the groups admitted during a hearing Wednesday. The charity, which Abrams founded in 2014 and from which she stepped away just before running for governor, effectively operated as an arm...

The New Georgia Project, a grassroots organization founded by former gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams, has been hit with a record-breaking $300,000 ethics fine. The State Ethics Commission alleges that the group functioned as an illegal Super PAC for Abrams's campaign, marking the largest fine in the commission's history and possibly the largest state ethics fine ever issued in the U.S. The New Georgia Project fined by State Ethics Commission What we know: The New Georgia Project, founded by former gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams in 2013, has been fined $300,000 by...

A pair of voting advocacy groups founded by failed Democrat Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams were hit with a historic fine by the Georgia Ethics Commission for violating campaign finance laws to bolster Abram's 2018 election. "Today the State Ethics Commission entered into a consent agreement with the New Georgia Project and the New Georgia Project Action Fund for a total of $300,000," the Georgia State Ethics Commission posted in a statement on Wednesday. "This certainly represents the largest fine imposed in the history of Georgia's Ethics Commission, but it...

A nonprofit organization founded by former Georgia state Rep. Stacey Abrams, who unsuccessfully ran for governor in 2018 and 2022, will pay $300,000 for illegally supporting her 2018 gubernatorial campaign. The New Georgia Project and an affiliated group, the New Georgia Project Action Fund, admitted to 16 violations of state campaign finance. The fine is the largest ever assessed for violating Georgia campaign finance laws. According to a consent order approved by the State Ethics Commission on Wednesday, the New Georgia Project admitted it raised and spent millions of dollars...

A group founded by Democratic Party activist and two-time election loser Stacey Abrams was assessed the largest campaign finance fine in Georgia history, a state ethics commission announced Wednesday. The record $300,000 fine was for spending related to Abrams’ first failed gubernatorial run in 2018. During that campaign, the New Georgia Project and affiliated New Georgia Project Action Fund admittedly raised and spent millions of dollars on Abrams’ behalf. Under Peach State law, the group should have filed as an independent committee and report both its fundraising and spending. In...

Mayor Brandon Johnson said Friday he was opposed to job cuts, but by Sunday, his new budget plan proposed $3.8 million in staff reductions. Photo: Monica Eng/Axios After canceling Friday's budget vote due to a lack of alder support, Mayor Brandon Johnson has presented a new plan that cuts his, once $300 million, property tax hike to zero, according to sources close to the talks. Why it matters: The proposal eliminates the property tax hike through, among other things, staff cuts that Johnson had vehemently opposed but alders wanted. •...