Stacey Abrams subpoenaed in Georgia Senate campaign finance investigation
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FIRST ON FOX: The Georgia Senate is stepping up its investigation into allegations of campaign finance violations tied to Stacey Abrams’ voter outreach group; A senior lawmaker vowed to “follow the facts wherever they lead” as subpoenas were served on Abrams and other prominent figures.
The Senate Special Investigations Committee announced Monday that Abrams, along with New Georgia Project leaders Lauren Groh-Wargo and Nsé Ufot, must appear before lawmakers at 10 a.m. Friday at the State Capitol.
“This committee has a responsibility to follow the facts wherever they lead,” said Republican state Sen. Greg Dolezal, the committee’s vice chairman. “Georgia law requires transparency and accountability in our elections.”
The subpoenas stem from findings by the Georgia State Ethics Commission that the New Georgia Project and its Action Fund violated campaign finance laws during the 2018 election cycle.
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Democratic candidate for governor of Georgia, Stacey Abrams, speaks to reporters at Georgia State University in Atlanta on November 7, 2022. (Elijah Nouvelage/Getty Images)
The groups pleaded guilty to 16 violations earlier this year and agreed to pay a $300,000 fine, the largest campaign finance penalty in Georgia history.
The New Georgia Project was closed and dissolved in 2025 following mounting financial and legal problems.
The goal of the investigation is to uncover details about who was involved in the decision-making process behind the violations, how the funds were managed and who was aware of the activity, Republican lawmakers explained in the press release.
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“The people of Georgia deserve to know who was involved, what decisions were made, and how millions of dollars flowed through organizations that admitted to violating our campaign finance laws,” Dolezal said.
“No one in Georgia is above the law,” Georgia’s Republican Lt. Gov. Burt Jones said in the statement.
He added: “For organizations to secretly spend millions to influence elections and evade disclosure requirements undermines trust in our democratic process. The Senate will continue to pursue the truth and ensure accountability regardless of political party or influence.”
Former Georgia House Representative Stacey Abrams attends the Fort Valley GOTV Community Fish Fry at the Agricultural Technology Conference Center on October 13, 2024 in Fort Valley, Georgia. (Julia Beverly/Getty Images)
Lawmakers say additional hearings and witness testimony are expected in the coming weeks.
“Today, the Georgia State Senate issued a subpoena for me to testify in a partisan, executive hearing designed to intimidate and disarm voting rights advocates in Georgia and across the country,” Abrams wrote in response to the subpoena. Published on X. “Despite hollow, cynical intentions, I will indeed do so on a mutually agreeable date.”
“I realized I was being summoned just days after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down protections for minority voting rights and to testify against the unconscionable voter suppression that was unfolding in several states across the South.”
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Abrams, a two-time Democratic gubernatorial candidate in battleground Georgia, ruled out another run for governor earlier this year, saying she would instead focus on her work combating what she warned was the country’s slide toward authoritarianism under President Trump.
Abrams, the former Democratic Party leader in the Georgia state legislature and a nationally known suffragist, narrowly lost to the Republican Gov. Brian Kemp In the 2018 gubernatorial election. He lost his 2022 rematch with Kemp by almost eight points.
Fox News Digital’s Paul Steinhauser contributed to this report
