Two Georgia voter advocacy groups founded by Democrat Stacey Abrams and led by Raphael Warnock before he was elected to the U.S. Senate have admitted to campaign finance violations and will pay a $300,

ATLANTA — A voting rights organization founded by Stacey Abrams was hit with the biggest fine in state ethics commission history after admitting to violating Georgia campaign finance laws. Channel 2′s Richard Elliot was at the State Capitol on Wednesday for the end of six years of legal battles.

A Democratic advocacy group founded by former Representative Stacey Abrams and once led by Senator Raphael Warnock were fined $300,000 on Wednesday for breaking Georgia’s campaign finance law. Georgia’s ethics commission found that the New Georgia Project and its affiliated action fund raised $4.