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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.

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.

On June 17, the Georgia Government Transparency and Campaign Finance Commission filed a complaint accusing the New Georgia Project of failing to disclose more than $3 million in electioneering expenses and more than $4 million in political contributions it had pocketed between 2017 and 2019.

According to leaked texts and other internal communications, the group’s paranoid leaders didn’t want anyone to peruse their books, the report said.

As a reminder, nonprofit groups are required to be transparent about how they’re using their donations to reassure donors and the public that fraud isn’t being committed.

In an Aug. 30 text message viewed by the Free Beacon, Cotton sent this reply in response to a request from the group’s COO urging it to hire a new accountant: “We are HYPER SENSITIVE about who we let around our financial info.”

Employees were also warned in a text message Thursday that they were required to alert Cotton “immediately” if they were contacted by the media because talking to reporters was a violation of New Georgia Project policy.

The Free Beacon said Frazier and Cotton declined to comment on the report.

The New Georgia Project is the third Abrams-founded group to be accused of financial impropriety.

https://www.westernjournal.com/leaked-texts-stacey-abrams-founded-voter-org-chaos-major-executives-dismissed/