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Last week The Georgia Record reported on the discovery of many small donations to the Georgia GOP as shown in TransparencyUSA.com.

How many? 91 pages containing these Anonymous contributions.

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National researchers around the country have been tracking campaign funding flow for a number of years. They now use specialized systems and AI to spot trends and anomalies present in campaign funding flow to and through various entities.

One of these experts is Chris Gleason who for the past three years has been reporting on campaign funding flow.  His studies have included Raphael Warnock, Fani Willis, Alvin Bragg, Brian Kemp and many others.

The Georgia Record contacted Chris Gleason and asked for his assessment of these odd very small donations.  Over the past week he has applied his specialized systems and techniques to the question.

Beginning yesterday, Chris Gleason began releasing posts on X which draw parallels between "Smurfing" patterns previously seen and these tiny donations going into the GAGOP.

In part of his assessment, Gleason introduces the concept of “warming up” the money flow.  Starting with very small transactions and then ramping over time.

Notably the ANONYMOUS contributions seen associated the Georgia Republican Party, Inc. include transactions down to twenty cents (0.20)

https://www.transparencyusa.org/ga/committee/georgia-republican-party-inc-66575/contributions?by=amount&order=asc

What about these ANONYMOUS Donations?

The GAGOP itself published a Handbook of requirements for State Candidates in 2022.  The document was sent out under the names:   Brandon Moye, Executive Director, and Karen Hentschel, Accounting Director. See below:

Within The document they specify that ANONYMOUS contributions are “strictly prohibited”

The entire document may be viewed or downloaded below:

Given that these (in many cases tiny) ANONYMOUS contributions flowed to the Georgia Republican Party, Inc., how is it that so many very small contributions could have been overlooked and not questioned as they were received by the GAGOP?    Especially since Executives of the GAGOP had previously provided written guidance.

Why are some of these tiny contributions attributed to known individuals in the Georgia Republican Party, Inc.?  One such example below shows a $0.20 contribution from a John Nance, former District Chair of the 7th District of the GAGOP?

Additionally, The Georgia Record spoke to a member of the GAGOP Executive Committee who is shown as having made one of these tiny transactions, and they confirmed that while they had contributed other amounts on other occasions, they had never made the tiny donation in question.

Again, how is it possible that 91 pages of tiny ANONYMOUS contributions were received without raising red flags within the Georgia Republican Party, Inc. processes?

What is SMURFING?

Smurfing can be as simple as using a known identity, usually in another State, usually without the person’s knowledge, to send many small contributions to NGOs, candidates, PACs and others.  Why?  To conceal the original source of the funding.

By making these contributions small, the process may evade/avoid certain reporting requirements at the Federal and/or State level.

Read an example our previous reporting regarding ANONYMOUS contributions and to whom they have been channeled within Georgia, (Fani Willis and Brian Kemp have been recipients.)

The Georgia Record will continue to report on this story as further facts are uncovered. Nothing herein is an assertion of wrongdoing by any individual or organization.

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