Georgia State Ethics Commission: ‘This is the biggest and most significant example of an illegally influencing Georgia’s statewide election.’

Georgia Ethics Commission fined a pair of voting advocacy organizations founded by Stacey Abrams, a failed Democrat Georgia gubernatorial nominee. The groups violated campaign finance laws in order to support Abrams’ 2018 election.

The Georgia State Ethics Commission released a statement Wednesday stating that the State Ethics Commission had entered into an agreement for $300,000 with the New Georgia Project Action Fund and the New Georgia Project. This is the largest fine in Georgia’s history, and it appears to be the biggest ethics fine imposed by any state in the United States in relation to an election or campaign finance case.

Abrams launched the New Georgia Project (NGP) in 2013 to encourage more minorities and young people to vote. The New Georgia Project Action Fund was the fundraising arm of the organization. It was established as a charitable organization that accepts tax-deductible contributions.

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According to the consent order of the commission, these groups acknowledged that they failed to disclose $4.2 million worth of contributions and $3.2 millions in expenses used to support Abram’s 2018 election campaign. The groups were cited for 16 violations including failure to register as political committees and failure to disclose millions in political contributions.

They were accused of similar activities in 2019 when they failed to disclose $646, 000 in contributions as well as $174,000 in donations while advocating a ballot initiative.

The ethics commission said in a statement released Wednesday that “this represents the largest and the most significant instance that we have ever found of an organization illegally interfering with our statewide Georgia elections.”

Abrams stepped away from the group in 2017. Sen. Raphael Warnock took the reins from 2017 to 2019 as the New Georgia Project CEO, the Associated Press reported. Warnock became a U.S. Senator from Georgia in 2020.

Warnock’s Senate office spokesperson told the AP he worked “as a champion for voting rights for a long time” and was unaware of any campaign violations. A spokesperson for Warnock’s Senate office told the AP that he was working “as a longtime champion for voting rights” and that he was not aware of campaign violations.

Abrams was a candidate for Georgia governor in both 2018 and 2022 but lost out to Republican Gov. Brian Kemp won both elections. Abrams attracted national attention when she refused, despite losing the 2018 election by 60,000 voters, to concede to Republican Brian Kemp.

She promoted the New Georgia Project in the run-up to the 2018 election on her X, or Twitter, account.

“When Abrams notices a problem she doesn’t just wait for someone to help – she takes action herself. Abrams, upon realizing that 800,000 Georgians of color were not registered to vote, immediately set out to solve the problem and founded The New GA Project,” tweeted she.

In a statement provided to Fox News Digital, the New Georgia Project stated that it is “glad” to have finally “put this matter behind us”, so that the group “can fully devote its attention and time to its efforts to engage civically and register young, black and brown voters in Georgia.”

The group said that while they were disappointed by the fact that the Federal Court ruling on the constitutionality Georgia Government Transparency and Campaign Finance Act had been overturned solely on procedural grounds, they accepted the outcome and were eager to move on from activities that occurred more than five year ago.