The New Georgia Project is being exposed for its shady finances and suspect expenditures.
According to a six-month long Politico investigation, the New Georgia Project, a “voting rights” organization founded by failed gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams and supervised by Georgia Sen. Raphael Warnock for over two years, is facing serious allegations of financial misconduct and spending irregularities.
One of its two board chairs, Frank Wilson, stated that the organization is conducting an internal investigation into its finances in response to allegations of misappropriation of funds. The organization was instrumental in registering the new voters required to transform Georgia from a red state to a swing state with two Democratic senators.
The decision is made in light of the fact that the organization’s tax returns reveal that its former executive director, whom Abrams personally selected in 2014 but terminated without cause last year, owes the group “non-work-related” reimbursements totaling thousands of dollars. Nsé Ufot, the organization’s former director who departed last year after eight years in charge, refutes any financial obligations and dismisses the allegation as a “f**ing lie.”
The debt ascribed to Ufot, a prominent political commentator and nationally acknowledged leader in voting rights advocacy, is among several instances