'Gov' Stacey Abrams charity has a big problem

The not really Governor of Georgia, Stacey Abrams (D) has a half million dollar problem. That is how much money is missing from the New Georgia Project, a large enough discrepancy for state and federal investigations to be launched into the group Abrams founded and the woman she picked to run it.

[H/T Washington Free Beacon]

The New Georgia Project filed its 2021 Form 990 financial disclosure in January, two months late to the IRS, and three months after the charity’s board chairman fired CEO Nse Ufot, Abrams’s hand-picked leader for the group. 

In the disclosure, the New Georgia Project reports a $533,846 consulting payment and a $67,500 grant to the Black Male Initiative, an obscure charity run in part by Ufot’s brother, Edima, a former New Georgia Project employee. 

Nepotism much?

However, the Black Male Initiative says it never received any such consulting payment and even provided the Washington Free Beacon with its IRS financial disclosures, indicating they collect zilch in consulting income and $255,000 in contributions from all sources in 2021.

The Free Beacon reported in November that the New Georgia Project was in turmoil as former senior staff accused the group’s leadership of engaging in rampant financial misconduct, [perhaps as rampant as Black Lives Matter, but that was left unsaid]. Georgia's state ethics commission alleges that the group illegally worked to elect Abrams during her failed 2018 gubernatorial bid, which she contends that she won in spite of the 55,000 vote majority going to Brian Kemp (R).

"This is something that the Internal Revenue Service should be interested in," Alan Dye, a nonprofit attorney, told the Free Beacon, "particularly with the added element of the former officer possibly pocketing the money."

Nse Ufot "fotting"

"Something’s rotten in the state of Denmark," Dye added, noting that it is a crime to knowingly file a false statement with the federal government.

Not Gov. Abrams founded the New Georgia Project in 2013 and has been in the forefront of her party's efforts to turn Georgia blue by expanding the state's non-white electorate [even if it takes illegal aliens to do so].

The group and its affiliated New Georgia Project Action Fund are some of the largest left wing voter registration efforts in the country, having raised a combined $54.7 million since 2020.

Central to that effort was Nse Ufot, a community organizer from Nigeria [much like Barack Hussein Obama from Kenya]. 

 Ufot was living in Canada in 2014 when she claims Abrams convinced her to pack up for Georgia to run the New Georgia Project. But her tenure with the New Georgia Project came to an abrupt end in October 2022, when she was dismissed under disturbing shady circumstances.

At some point, Nse’s brother joined the endeavor. It is not clear when Edima Ufot joined or left the New Georgia Project, but the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported in January 2020 that he served as the group’s community organizing director. Edima Ufot no longer works at the New Georgia Project and is now the lead organizer for Black Male Initiative.

The missing $533,000 is not the only discrepancy on the New Georgia Project’s tax forms, which contains information that accountants say is "just not possible." The group’s 2020 financial disclosure, for example, states that the New Georgia Project paid zero dollars in payroll taxes that year.

"I have no idea how a charity can have 173 paid employees and pay no payroll taxes. It’s just not possible," said Dye. "I can’t answer that question. There should be no excuse for that."

Nse and Edima Ufot did not respond to requests for comment to Brain Flushings, merely saying, "No English. No English."

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