A voting rights group founded by Stacey Abrams has been dealt the largest campaign violation fine in Georgia history. The New Georgia Project, once a major organizing force, will pay the state $300,000 for illegally spending millions to bolster Abrams' 2018 gubernatorial campaign to settle a complaint filed with the Georgia Ethics Commission,

New Georgia Project, a grassroots organization founded by former gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams, has been hit with a record-breaking $300,000 ethics fine.

A Democratic advocacy group founded by former Representative Stacey Abrams and once led by Senator Raphael Warnock were fined $300,000 on Wednesday for breaking Georgia’s campaign finance law. Georgia’s ethics commission found that the New Georgia Project and its affiliated action fund raised $4.