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State Ethics Commission approves $300,000 consent order with New Georgia Project, citing undisclosed millions in 2018–19 election activity
Summary
The State Ethics Commission approved a consent order with New Georgia Project and its Action Fund resolving allegations that the organizations failed to register and disclose millions in 2018–19 election-related activity; the entities agreed to a $300,000 civil penalty.
The State Ethics Commission on Jan. 15 approved a consent order with New Georgia Project, Inc. and New Georgia Project Action Fund, Inc., resolving multi-year enforcement proceedings that alleged widespread failures to register and disclose independent-committee and ballot-committee activity during the 2018 statewide election cycle and the 2019 MARTA referendum.
Commission staff said the investigation and litigation began in September 2019, produced bank records in March 2022, and led to an amended complaint and a preliminary reasonable-grounds finding in August 2022. Staff told commissioners the respondents admitted to multiple violations and agreed in the consent order to pay a $300,000 civil penalty.
Staff summarized the admissions in the consent order as including failure to register as an independent committee and failure to file required…
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