A Georgia voter registration group founded by failed Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams in 2013 has been embroiled in a hotbed of corruption allegations in the lead-up to Tuesday’s midterm elections, according to a report Friday.
The New Georgia Project — which was once helmed by Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock — fired its top financial, legal and operation officials in late June, The Washington Free Beacon reported.
“In 2020 alone, it raised nearly $25 million from donors including the left-wing dark money behemoth Tides Foundation and the George Soros-bankrolled Center for Popular Democracy,” the report said.
While they’re no longer formally affiliated with the organization, Abrams and Warnock — both of whom are on the ballot Tuesday — have maintained ties with the group’s leaders, including board chairman Francys Johnson.
A former executive who spoke on condition of anonymity told the Free Beacon that CFO Randall Frazier was fired “after warning the group’s leaders that they were engaged in potential financial impropriety.”
Shortly before he was axed, Frazier had urged the nonprofit organization to hire an independent forensic accountant to analyze potential fraud. Notably, Frazer said he couldn’t do his job without breaking the law.
“I was in the room when he brought it up to all the leadership again and again and again, and was there when he was fired,” the former official told the Free Beacon.
NEW: Stacey Abrams’s “poster child” voter registration group New Georgia Project is in turmoil just days ahead of the midterms.
We’re told NGP’s former CFO was fired after saying he couldn’t do his job w/o violating the law.@FreeBeacon w/ @SaysSimonsonhttps://t.co/hAMiqVdmdV
— Andrew Kerr (@AndrewKerrNC) November 4, 2022
Another former official said in September that New Georgia Project’s CEO Kendra Cotton rejected her request to let an independent auditor review the group’s accounting software.
Let this sink in: Two top executives claim they were fired after urging the left-wing organization to hire outside forensic accountants to ascertain if financial fraud was being committed by the nonprofit group, according to the report.
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