THE MORNING RANT: Stacey Abrams Has a History of Illegal Slush Funds Predating the Recent $2 Billion Revelation from DOGE

Conservative media has extensively covered the recent DOGE revelation that in 2024 the Biden administration steered a $2 billion grant to a newly-created “non-profit” associated with perennial Georgia political candidate Stacey Abrams. In its first three months of operations, this organization had raised just $100 before the Biden administration decided to steer $2 billion to it.

But lost amidst all this coverage is the fact that just a few weeks earlier another slush fund incident was revealed involving Ms. Abrams, and although the dollar amount was less, it was criminally worse, because it involved an intentional and illegal diversion of $3 million from a “non-partisan” organization created by Stacey Abrams to help fund her 2018 gubernatorial campaign. The state of Georgia just imposed a massive $300,000 fine on this organization for its illegal efforts to interfere in an election.

“Nonprofit founded by Stacey Abrams secretly campaigned for her in 2018” [The Hill – 01/15/2025]

The commission found the nonprofits raised upward of $4 million and spent more than $3 million to help Abrams and other 2018 candidates. The groups did not file as a campaign committee before receiving donations and failed to file campaign finance reports before the election, the commission found.

I wrote about this story a few weeks ago, but I framed it in terms of Senator Raphael Warnock, who was at that time the head of Ms. Abrams’ corrupt campaign money laundering operation. But the story is ultimately about Stacey Abrams’ history of financial corruption.

“To Be Consistent with the George Santos Precedent, Raphael Warnock Must be Expelled from Congress” [Buck Throckmorton – 02/02/2025]

Senator Raphael Warnock (D – GA) was Chairman of a “non-partisan” group that engaged in a massive violation of campaign finance laws in 2018. The “non-partisan” group led by Warnock spent millions of dollars illegally attempting to influence the outcome of the 2018 Georgia gubernatorial election between Stacey Abrams and Brian Kemp. Despite the dishonest and illegal spending by Warnock’s “non-partisan” group on behalf of Ms. Abrams, she lost that race. Raphael Warnock, who was Chairman of the “New Georgia Project” at the time, is now professing total ignorance of the actions his organization was engaged in.

News broke a few weeks ago that the Georgia Ethics Commission unanimously voted to fine the New Georgia Project and its affiliated spinoff, The New Georgia Project Action Fund, $300,000 for violating state campaign laws and for failing to register as a political committee. As reported in a piece at The Hill titled “Nonprofit founded by Stacey Abrams secretly campaigned for her in 2018” these groups admitted that they violated the law by campaigning for Abrams.

Further, according to the mission statement at the New Georgia Project’s website, ”New Georgia Project is a nonpartisan effort to register, civically engage, and build power with the New Georgia Majority–the large and growing population of Black, brown, young, and other historically marginalized voters in the Peach State.”
Raphael Warnock led this organization in a massive financial and political fraud. Donors who thought they were giving to a non-partisan organization to help “marginalized” voters were actually giving to an organization actively, and illegally, assisting the Stacey Abrams campaign. The New Georgia Project, with Raphael Warnock serving as its as Chairman, was also actively violating federal tax laws.

Stacey Abrams was not only the creator of this entity, she was also the beneficiary of its illegal diversion of tax-free charitable giving to her political campaign back in 2018.

Ms. Abrams has a history of illegally diverting funds to benefit her political ambitions. $2 billion would go a long way toward further interfering with the integrity of Georgia elections.

[buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com]

posted by Buck Throckmorton at 11:00 AM

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