The New Georgia Project, founded by Stacey Abrams, has been fined $300,000 by the State Ethics Commission for allegedly functioning as an illegal Super PAC during Abrams's 2018 gubernatorial campaign.

According to the consent order, which was made public on Wednesday following the ethics commission’s vote to approve it, the New Georgia Project and its fundraising arm, the New Georgia Project ...

The commission found that the New Georgia Project and its affiliated New Georgia Project Action Fund illegally did election work for Abrams and others without disclosing their campaign ...

The organization, New Georgia Project, "violated various provisions of the Georgia Government Transparency and Campaign Finance Act," according to a copy of the consent order obtained by 11Alive News.