Stacey Abrams Faces Georgia Senate Investigation: 'Nobody Is Above the Law, Even If They Were a Darling of MSNBC'
The Georgia Senate introduced a resolution Thursday to investigate twice-failed gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams (D.) and the New Georgia Project, a voting rights group she founded, after the organization admitted to illegally aiding her 2018 campaign.
Senate Resolution 292 would authorize the Special Committee on Investigations to examine Abrams's ties to the nonprofit, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported. In January, the New Georgia Project agreed to pay a record $300,000 fine after it admitted to more than a dozen campaign finance violations, including failing to disclose $4.2 million in campaign contributions and $3.2 million in expenditures. The group made those contributions under the leadership of then-chairman Raphael Warnock, now Georgia's junior senator.
The resolution, which is expected to pass in the Republican-majority chamber, marks a major escalation in efforts to scrutinize Abrams, who claimed for years that the 2018 race, which she lost to Republican governor Brian Kemp, was "rigged" and "stolen."
It also directs the committee to investigate a $2 billion federal grant awarded to Power Forward Communities, another nonprofit linked to Abrams. Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency revealed earlier this month that the Biden administration had allocated the funds to the green energy organization.
Lieutenant Governor Burt Jones (R.), who leads the State Senate, has vowed to hold Abrams accountable.
"The people of Georgia were defrauded by Stacey Abrams," Jones said in a statement Friday. "She's now been forced to admit it and tried to get it to go away."
"But Georgians want real accountability," Jones went on. "With these subpoena powers, my office is going to get to the truth. In Georgia, nobody is above the law, even if they were a darling of MSNBC. Anyone who broke the law and stole from taxpayers, including Stacey Abrams, should go to jail."
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