EXCLUSIVE: GOP Rep Calls On IRS To Punish Stacey Abrams-Linked Nonprofit For Illegally Aiding Her Gubernatorial Run

Republican Georgia Rep. Buddy Carter is demanding additional consequences for a nonprofit founded by Stacey Abrams that was slapped with a record fine Wednesday for illegally aiding her failed 2018 gubernatorial campaign.

The Georgia Republican wrote to Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner Daniel Werfel Wednesday night urging the agency to revoke the nonprofit’s tax-exempt status and investigate the entity for additional violations of federal law, according to a letter exclusively obtained by the 🏢Daily Caller News Foundation.

The Georgia State Ethics Commission fined the allegedly nonpartisan voting advocacy nonprofit and its affiliated action fund $300,000 Wednesday, the largest penalty levied on an entity for violating state campaign finance laws in Georgia’s history. The nonprofit admitted to 16 violations of state campaign finance laws for supporting Abrams’ campaign without registering as an independent political action committee and filing regular disclosure reports.

Democratic Georgia Sen. Raphael Warnock notably ran the New Georgia Project during the period the nonprofit engaged in illegal campaign activities until he ran for Senate in 2020.

“The abuse of the organization’s tax-exempt status and violation of federal campaign finance laws are serious violations of the public’s trust that undermine our country’s tax code and election system and must be fully examined by the Internal Revenue Service,” Carter wrote in the letter. “Considering the facts already reported, I believe the tax-exempt status of the New Georgia Project and its related Action Fund should be revoked and that it should be subject to further penalties.”