Report: Stacey Abrams’ Group Attempted To Purchase Multi-Million Dollar Real Estate In “Bizarre Deal”
The New Georgia Project then fired their top earning staff citing lack of funds.
Twice-failed Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams appears to have taken a page out of BLM co-founder Patrisse Cullors’s playbook.
According to the Washington Free Beacon, Abrams’s nonprofit (ha!) attempted to purchase multi-million dollar real estate . . . and then fired its chief operations officer as well as its directors of design and digital marketing, citing a lack of funds.
The Washington Free Beacon reports:
The New Georgia Project had $11 million in its investment account in August when it set out to pay $2.45 million in cash for a sprawling Atlanta compound. Less than two months later, the organization dismissed half its leadership staff, citing a lack of funds.
A series of internal documents and correspondences obtained by the Washington Free Beacon reveals the bizarre circumstances surrounding the real estate deal, which several parties close to the matter say are indicative of a leadership crisis within the Stacey Abrams-founded group. The deal was spearheaded by Erin Ferguson, a junior New Georgia Project staffer who in a group text urged senior leadership in late August to sign a letter of intent to purchase the two adjacent properties and swiftly pay a $30,000 non-refundable deposit.
But a former New Georgia Project senior executive told the Free Beacon that the rush to purchase the properties was strange, noting that the buildings needed at least $288,000 in repairs to be compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act. The group was already locked into a $15,000-per-month lease at its current office through 2025, the former senior executive said.
And the strangeness just gets stranger.
The Free Beacon continues:
The real estate deal is the latest murky financial situation involving the New Georgia Project. The group, which was founded to register non-white voters and once helmed by Sen. Raphael Warnock (D., Ga.), missed the deadline to file required financial disclosures to the IRS. The Free Beacon reported this month that the group’s top accountant was fired after claiming he was unable to work there out of fear of breaking the law.
According to an Aug. 26 letter of intent obtained by the Free Beacon, the New Georgia Project sought to purchase the properties from Global Resource Partners, LLC. But Global Resource Partners never owned the properties. A real estate agent representing the Sheet Metal Workers Building Association, which owns the compound, told the Free Beacon that Global Resource Partners went under contract to buy the properties for around $1.92 million during the same timeframe the LLC was ostensibly trying to sell the properties to the New Georgia Project.
The real estate agent was surprised to learn that Global Resource Partners was simultaneously trying to flip the properties for at least $530,000. He added that he couldn’t recall hearing about the New Georgia Project until contacted by the Free Beacon on Nov. 21.
“It makes you wonder why someone would go so far, put something under contract, not close on it, and not tell you any good reason why they didn’t do it,” the real estate agent said. “They kept saying they had to go out of town. Well, a bank wire can be sent anywhere in the country.”
Something is definitely strange here.
It’s not clear if New Georgia Partners ever signed the letter of intent or submitted the $30,000 earnest money deposit to purchase the properties from Global Resource Partners. It’s also not clear why Global Resource Partners dropped out of purchasing the properties at the last minute.
On Oct. 7, the New Georgia Project’s director of human resources during a video conference fired its chief operations officer as well as its directors of design and digital marketing. The reason given was that the organization could no longer afford their salaries.
Fired top staff during a video conference? Citing lack of funds?
This whole thing is surreal. Investigations should be launched, but I would be surprised if they are.
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I am so confused by this story.
A big lady makes a big deal.
The big lady is bizarre. So is the big deal.
It’s still not clear to me. That’s because it’s not clear to anybody.
“Give ‘em the old razzle dazzle….”
No way! These 501c entities are all pure as the driven snow, without one iota of corruption. /S
Was this to be an enormous Golden Corral buffet complex?
Wait! What? She’s a race hustler and grifter? Who coulda known!?!
As Gomer Pyle said, “Surprise, surprise, surprise.”
Gee thanks, now that is gonna be on a loop in my head the rest of the day.
The hustlers just can’t help using the money for personal gain. The justice brothers, BLM all of them never dropped a dime to help the downtrodden.
“The Free Beacon reported this month that the group’s top accountant was fired after claiming he was unable to work there out of fear of breaking the law.”
This definitely sounds like something illegal, but IANAL
Accounting is a professionally licensed occupation in many jurisdictions, and a licensed professional who knowingly colludes in illegal behaviour is running great personal risk. The payoff has to be private Caribbean island money to make it worth the risk of never being able to work again.
I don’t know about accountancy but professional engineering usually has a duty to report as well, making quitting an employer blatantly engaging in criminal activity the only option.
It doesn’t say he quit. It says he was fired.
It says that he said he couldn’t go on working there for fear of breaking the law. AND it says he was fired.
It might come down to who was quicker at the draw.
So who is Global Resource Partners, LLC? Per the OpenCorporates website (https://opencorporates.com/companies/us_ga/08026161), the agent is ‘Haywood Smith’. They were incorporated in 2008. The Georgia LLC last filed papers with the state in March 2022, but I can’t get these (filing #22975507).
There are a number of similarly-named LLCs filed in other states, though some of these were dissolved since their incorporation.
It does make me wonder if the idea here was to push money from the New Georgia Project to the LLC. But I can’t find who controls/owns the LLC today.
My thought was that whoever the individual is within New Georgia Project who was pushing for the real estate transaction to go through is in cahoots with the entity that was trying to purchase/flip the property. The $500+K is grift.
You have good insight. I think you might be on to something.
Didn’t you two have a hit in the 60’s?
Oh yes,
We go together
Like two straws in a coke
Why not come over
And you’ll meet my folks
Let’s go steady
You are my first love
What exactly does this person DO?
I read elsewhere that she is now lobbying for a job on FCC.
Frightening!
But do they keep their money in the Caymen Islands?
Same bank the SPLC uses.
Well, they had good references.
I don’t find this murky at all. That person at the Georgia Project saw a chance to buy two adjoining properties and must have thought the price was good enough that it could be fixed and flipped for profit and be a hero. They didn’t do the research on the property well enough, though and talked to who they thought owned it. Those people said “hmmm, if we can buy it from the actual owners for under what that group wants to spend we can flip it and make a profit”. Everyone saw some money in it maybe enough to keep Abrams in Golden Corral buffets for a year or two.
I couldn’t get past the $228K needed to likely make it possible for her to get up the steps and through the door in a timely fashion.
A conveyer belt would be faster and less expensive.
One that just brought the food out to the sidewalk would be more efficient.
Thanks for the chuckle … John Deere with a grapple … Slip’n’Slide and a couple gallons of Wesson’s …
I couldn’t get past the “$2.45 million in cash for a sprawling Atlanta compound.” That’s about the price of a quarter-section of unimproved Arizona desert.
You know how much it costs to install freight docks, ramps and pour reinforced concrete floors?
Sounds suspiciously like Realtor Suppression!
Information which would have been useful to know a month ago.
They just pried it off Hunter’s laptop yesterday.
Stacy has nothing to worry about, her sister is a Judge!
Vile Abrams is committed to displaying the same pathological narcissism and obnoxious entitlement as her father, Idi Amin.
No one who should care, cares
Hustlers gonna hustle.
That space between her front teeth….. That’s the credibility gap.
Stacey Y. Abrams is current a member, in good standing, of the Georgia Bar Association. I wonder if they have a code of ethics.