Stacey Abrams Just Got Hit With 6-Figures!

A federal judge in Georgia has ordered failed gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams to pay up after issuing false claims that the 2018 election was stolen from her.

The judge on Tuesday required Abrams’s Fair Fight Action to pay over $200,000 in reimbursement of legal fees related to a lawsuit that claimed Gov. Brian Kemp (R) stole the election.

Fair Fight Action must reimburse $192,628.85 in transcription fees and $38,674.86 in copying costs that Georgia incurred to fight the lawsuit.

Read the bill of costs submitted Tuesday by the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia below:

Abrams claimed that Kemp used his former position, secretary of state, to disenfranchise minority voters during the election cycle.

However, a federal judge in late September ruled against Abrams’s group, saying there was no direct evidence to support her claims.

Now, Fair Fight Action must pay up after the four-year legal battle.

NEW: Stacey Abrams's nonprofit group Fair Fight Action has been ordered to reimburse the state of Georgia $231,000 for legal fees the state incurred defending itself against her failed 2018 voter suppression lawsuit.https://t.co/Kqn88hL3wJ

— Andrew Kerr (@AndrewKerrNC) January 10, 2023

Fair Fight Action, as reported by @HoustonKeene, was “ordered to pay $231,303.71 in legal fees after their longtime predominate case, Fair Fight Action v. Raffensperger, came to a close with a federal judge ruling against them in their remaining three claims”

— Kyle Morris (@RealKyleMorris) January 10, 2023

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensberger (R) said the ruling was a win for Georgia voters and taxpayers.

“Stacey Abrams’s voter suppression claims were false. It has never been easier to vote and harder to cheat in the state of Georgia,” Raffensberger said in a statement.

“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.”

The Washington Free Beacon provided further details:

Fair Fight Action’s finances came under scrutiny in October after Politico revealed the group doled out $9.4 million in legal fees to a law firm run by Allegra Lawrence-Hardy, a close friend of Abrams and the chairwoman of her failed 2018 and 2022 gubernatorial bids. The group spent more than $25 million on legal fees in 2019 and 2020, the bulk of which went toward its failed Georgia lawsuit.

Ethics watchdogs said that Fair Fight Action spent a “shocking” amount on the case and that the close relationship between Abrams and Lawrence-Hardy raises conflict-of-interest concerns.

“Fair Fight Action ought to explain why this lawsuit cost so much,” said Washington University in St. Louis legal ethics professor Kathleen Clark. “I think there are significant questions about this choice of firm and just why this lawsuit was so much more expensive.”

Fair Fight Action isn’t the only Abrams-linked group accused of financial impropriety.

The New Georgia Project, which Abrams founded in 2013, dismissed half its leadership team in late October because of a lack of funds after raising nearly $25 million in 2020. A former senior executive at the New Georgia Project told the Washington Free Beacon that the group’s chief financial officer was fired in June 2022 after saying he couldn’t do his job without violating the law.

The New Georgia Project is nearly two months late in filing its IRS Form 990 financial disclosure, which would shed light on its financial activities in 2021. The group’s charitable solicitation license has expired in at least 17 states due to its lack of required financial transparency, and the liberal states of Washington and Colorado have ordered the charity to cease all in-state fundraising activities.

After two failed gubernatorial campaigns and millions in wasted funds, you’d think Stacey Abrams would have learned a lesson.

That doesn’t appear to be the case.

Abrams teased a third run on Monday, telling talk show host Drew Barrymore, “I will likely run again.”

Barrymore excitedly cheered upon hearing the news while the masked audience gave a round of applause.

“So, are you going to go up against some tough men who kinda don’t always play fair,” Barrymore said.

“Well, if at first you don’t succeed, try, try again,” Abrams replied.

“And if it doesn’t work, you try again.”

WATCH:

BUCKLE UP!

WATCH – Perpetual loser Stacey Abrams tells Drew Barrymore and her entire masked audience she "will run again!" pic.twitter.com/tphPpv6kWp

— The First (@TheFirstonTV) January 9, 2023