{"id":1801580,"date":"2023-01-10T18:05:25","date_gmt":"2023-01-10T23:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1801580"},"modified":"2023-01-10T18:05:58","modified_gmt":"2023-01-10T23:05:58","slug":"federal-judge-orders-stacey-abrams-group-to-reimburse-georgia-230k-for-spurious-election-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/federal-judge-orders-stacey-abrams-group-to-reimburse-georgia-230k-for-spurious-election-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal Judge Orders Stacey Abrams Group To Reimburse Georgia $230K for Spurious Election Lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffederal-judge-orders-stacey-abrams-group-to-reimburse-georgia-230k-for-spurious-election-lawsuit%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1801580&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>On Tuesday, a federal judge ordered Stacey Abrams\u2019s Fair Fight Action pay more than $200,000 to the state of Georgia to cover legal fees related to a spurious suit that claimed Governor. Brian Kemp (R.), stole the 2018 gubernatorial elections.<\/p>\n<p>Abrams formed the group after he lost to Kemp, then-secretary-of-state. She claimed Kemp used the position to disenfranchise minority voter voters in the run-up to the election. In September, Fair Fight Action was discredited on all counts by a federal judge. This decision came after a four-year legal battle. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/09\/30\/us\/politics\/voting-lawsuit-georgia.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Provided<\/a> There is no evidence to suggest that Georgian voters were unable to vote.<\/p>\n<p>Fair Fight Action must pay $192,628.85 for transcription fees and $38,674.86 for copying costs Georgia incurred when it defended itself against the group\u2019s lawsuit. According to a bill, costs <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Fair-Fight-Fine.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">submitted<\/a> Tuesday, by the U.S. District Court of the Northern District of Georgia<\/p>\n<p>Brad Raffensberger (R.), Georgia secretary-of-state, hailed the order for its positive impact on the state&#8217;s voters and taxpayers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Stacey Abrams&#8217;s voter suppression claims were false. It has never been easier to vote and harder to cheat in the state of Georgia,&#8221; Raffensberger made the statement in a statement. &#8220;This is a start, but I think Stacey Abrams should pay back the millions of taxpayer dollars the state was forced to spend to disprove her false claims.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Fair Fight Action&#8217;s finances were under scrutiny after October. <em>Politico<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/10\/24\/stacey-abrams-fair-fight-action-00061348\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">revealed<\/a> The group paid $9.4million in legal fees to Allegra Lawrence-Hardy&#8217;s law firm, which was close friends of Abrams. She also chaired her failed 2022 and 2018 gubernatorial campaigns. In 2019 and 2020, the group spent over $25 million in legal fees. The bulk of that went towards its failed Georgia lawsuit.<\/p>\n<p>According to ethics watchdogs, Fair Fight Action spent approximately a &#8220;shocking&#8221; amount on the case, and that the close relationship of Abrams to Lawrence-Hardy raises concerns about conflict-of interest.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Fair Fight Action ought to explain why this lawsuit cost so much,&#8221; Kathleen Clark, Washington University in St. Louis law ethics professor &#8220;I think there are significant questions about this choice of firm and just why this lawsuit was so much more expensive.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Fair Fight Action is not the only Abrams-linked organization accused of financial fraud.<\/p>\n<p>Abrams started the New Georgia Project in 2013 and half of its leadership team was fired in October due to a lack funds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal judge on Tuesday ordered Stacey Abrams&#8217;s Fair Fight Action to pay over $200,000 to reimburse the state of Georgia for legal fees related to a spurious lawsuit that claimed Gov. Brian Kemp (R.) stole the 2018 gubernatorial election.<br \/>\nThe post Federal Judge Orders Stacey Abrams Group To Reimburse Georgia $230K for Spurious Election Lawsuit appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":108,"featured_media":1801583,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[14317,4547,4092,3728,3974,4977,5387,4585,12560,14316,4603],"class_list":["post-1801580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-230k","tag-abrams","tag-beacon","tag-election","tag-federal","tag-georgia","tag-judge","tag-lawsuit","tag-reimburse","tag-spurious","tag-stacey"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1801580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/108"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1801580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1801580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1801583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1801580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1801580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1801580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}