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Recently, my friend and National Committeewoman Amy Kremer, published the following press release on X, calling for the removal of all Frost family members from positions of responsibility in the Georgia Republican Party:
My friend realizes, as well as I do, that these Frost family members, caught in a major financial scandal and clinging ever-so-loosely to their party positions, will never voluntarily give them up. Republicans can expect no apologies, no resignations, no contrition, not even the first acknowledgment of questionable behavior out of the Frost siblings, Brant V and Katie. For the siblings to leave their positions in the party, as Ms. Kremer demands, that eventuality will likely take place only in accordance with a physical extraction, accompanied by much gnashing of teeth by the young Frosts.
Leaning on my personal experience with the one sibling, it is my opinion that Brant V will never apologize, and certainly never leave office voluntarily. I hold to that position because of what has long appeared, at least to me, to be an incapacity on young Brant’s part to recognize that he was ever part of anything questionable in the first place. According to one Ponzi scheme victim, however, as was recently published in the Newnan newspaper, Brant V knew what was going on, and aided his father in running the Ponzi scheme for a term the SEC published to be a decade or longer, apparently becoming a pure Ponzi scheme around 2021.
Brant V also served in many ways as the family business “pitch man,” this according to that same local newspaper.
Over that time, $140 million disappeared, yet no statements have come from either Brant V or Katie, no apologies, no voiced regrets. And now, apparently, both intend to carry on in the party as if nothing happened.
Remember, concerning his activities during the Dalton Republican State Convention, Brant V publicly demonstrated that he does not care whether his actions may have been hurtful or harmful to others. According to Brant V, whether others were harmed by his behavior was purely on them for being out-smarted. Perhaps you recall the lack of concern exhibited in Brant V’s boastful social media post shortly after the Dalton convention:
Confirmed by his own words, the Brant V whom I know is exactly the boastful egocentric any reasoned observer might imagine after reading his post above. In that post, Frost contends unabashedly that convention losers are merely victims of their own envy of him and his superior political skills, never recognizing that what he did, and admits to doing, was cheating. This is an individual who apparently possesses no remorse for destroying convention rules in order to obtain the election results he desired.
And, friends, try as one might, it is my experience with Brant V that no one will be able to sufficiently explain to him why violating those rules was wrong.
And now that dear old dad, Brant Frost IV, has agreed to be the fall-guy, offering to take full responsibility for the entire family’s apparent corruption, Brant V apparently believes he is free and clear to form a new lending business, as if nothing has happened, having registered such an enterprise with Georgia’s Secretary of State the week following the FBI raid and closing of operations of the family business.
You see, that’s what I mean. To Brant Frost V, apparently nothing has changed since the SEC closed the family Ponzi business doors. Daddy took the rap, so apparently, that’s all over. Bad for dad. As such, by all indications Brant V is oblivious to consider that his career running an investment/loan business is likely over for a good long while. Apparently, he cannot consider the possibility that very few customers in their right minds would look forward to investing with members of the Frost family again.
A decade or so ago I joined the Georgia Republican Assembly (GRA). I joined on the promise that the organization was all about holding politicians accountable. Maybe you have noticed, holding politicians accountable is sort of my hobby. So, joining the GRA seemed a natural fit.
Little did I know at the time that the GRA was already infested with such as the Frost family, and in particular Brant V.
In keeping with the behavior we are seeing today, soon after joining I began receiving First Liberty loan and investment solicitations, directly from Brant V. As the apparent keeper of the GRA membership list, Brant V had access to my email, and soon migrated that information to his personal use like nothing would be wrong with that, and used it to solicit my business for the family operation. After receiving his solicitation, I called young Brant to express personal outrage that he would use my GRA contact information to market his family’s loan and investment operation. Did Brant V apologize? Of course not. Apparently, there is no apology in this person. All Brant V would do was to ask whether I wanted my name taken off the list. Amazed by his lack of concern, I responded that he was missing the point, the point being that one should not abscond with contact information given to one organization and use it for other than it was intended, without permission. Understanding none of what I said, Brant responded asking, “So, you want to stay on the list?” It was precisely that moment when I arrived at the personal judgment that I was talking to someone who had very little ability, or willingness, to understand that what he had done was wrong, or that I was owed an apology in the very least. And in the ensuing years, nothing in that regard has changed my opinion.
In another instance, I recall that shortly after Trump was elected in 2016, a friend of mine was able to get Brant V an interview, representing the GRA during a segment on WDUN in Gainesville. After the interview, several of us had planned to meet, along with Brant V, for lunch. I recall listening to the show, during which Brant V informed the Northeast Georgia area that electing Trump was a mistake and that Ted Cruz would have been a much better choice. Dumbfounded hearing such public statements, during lunch I took the opportunity to address the judgment Brant had exhibited. Trump took 75% of the vote in Hall County. The primary had been over for a year. Brant V was speaking to the listeners as a representative of the GRA. Again, the person to whom I addressed my remarks could not seemingly understand a word I said. It was almost like I was speaking a foreign language. He just kept on smiling, and talking past my part of the conversation, never hearing a word.
Then there was the 2017 GRA Convention held at a church in Brant V’s back yard of Coweta County. Brant V is a perennial member of the GRA executive committee. As such, the rules required him to remain neutral at the convention. I will never forget my arrival, driving the long road into this facility, seemingly most of a mile. Along both sides of the drive I discovered hundreds of signs, one after another, urging GRA members to endorse Brant’s choice for governor, Hunter Hill. It was obvious, Brant V had arranged for the signs, disregarding all GRA rules requiring him to remain neutral, just like he admittedly disregarded the Dalton convention rules by blocking the microphones from delegates.
Now, I will leave mental diagnoses for others, but whatever the diagnosis for Brant V’s behavior, if what we saw out of sister Katie in Dalton is representative of her personality, she apparently has whatever Brant V has as well.
So, where is Georgia Republican Party Chairman Josh McKoon in all of this? Good question. So far, the chairman has not uttered a word. Let’s explore that.
First of all, here’s how that fine specimen, Josh McKoon, thinks. In Dalton, McKoon lost in his effort to unseat Laurie McClain from her office as party treasurer. The importance of that is that the treasurer is empowered under party rules to maintain custody over all the money. As such, McClain is officially vested to oversee party finances. But, apparently, McKoon can’t have someone who is honest and trustworthy to occupy such a position of responsibility. So, what did he do? Soon after a certifiable tornado ripped the doors off the Dalton Convention Center the afternoon the party steal took place, McKoon created a new “Financial Oversight Committee” and placed Katie Frost as its chairperson. So get this, Chairman Josh McKoon has now entrusted the financial oversight of the Georgia Republican Party to a member of a family whose business was just seized by the Feds for running a decade-long Ponzi scheme, in the end leaving hundreds of investors in the cold, some now apparently penniless in their retirement.
Now, ask yourself, why would McKoon do that? You see, by placing his own people in a supervisory capacity over the actual ELECTED party treasurer, McKoon can effectively keep Ms. McClain in the dark regarding party finances without himself appearing to be the bad guy, Katie Frost instead becoming the audacious and extremely unpleasant gate-keeper of all financial information McClain might seek, thus insulating McKoon from McClain and her requests, making it extremely uncomfortable for the elected party treasurer to seek information, while placing an entire committee of stooges between McClain and himself. Going forward, if his plan works Josh McKoon will rarely, if ever, have to speak to Laurie McClain and McClain will no longer have access to McKoon, or have McKoon to directly criticize.
And speaking of money, is it not thought-provoking that the Frosts accrued over $34K in legal expenses with the firm of Georgia Republican Party General Counsel Alex Kaufman, and that Federal Court Judge, Michael L. Brown, allowed Kaufman’s firm to be paid out of the few Ponzi dollars remaining, for services rendered First Liberty prior to the consent judgment?
That lawyers will always take care of other lawyers is apparently an unwritten law. Every dollar paid to Kaufman’s firm was one invested by trusting customers of First Liberty. Should not those funds be clawed back with all others? And by the way, what kind of work was Kaufman’s firm providing for the Frost Ponzi enterprise in the first place? Doubtful we will ever know.
So, why did I go through all of this? I did so for you to better understand who Chairman Josh McKoon is. Regarding Georgia Republicans, McKoon is the big fish here, not Brant V or Katie. A year and a half ago, Josh McKoon broke every party rule in the book to run ELECTED First Vice Chairman Brian Pritchard out of his rightful position in the party. McKoon based his arguments on the notion that the Democrats might use Pritchard’s presence as a political weapon during the 2024 elections. The evidence McKoon used was a hyper-technical interpretation of Georgia law which could be construed to have disallowed Pritchard from voting in a certain election in which he voted many years ago, believing he was an eligable voter. But now McKoon has the son and daughter of an admitted Ponzi scheme operator, each who apparently played significant roles in a family business operation that lost over $140 million for its trusting investors, sitting in the respective chairmanships of the Coweta County Republican Party, and the 3rd District Republican Party, and McKoon has placed the Ponzi operator’s daughter in charge of statewide financial oversight of the Georgia Republican Party. And ever since the FBI raid on First Liberty, Chairman McKoon has remained silent. If the Democrats were thought to make hay of Pritchard, they will spin that hay into gold over the Frost sibling’s roles in the party.
I submit for your consideration that the difference in Josh McKoon’s attitude toward the case of Pritchard, as compared to his attitude toward the case of the Frost siblings, aptly indicates who Josh McKoon really is, and provides meaningful incite as to his true purposes as Chairman of the Georgia Republican Party (Inc.), as well as the reasons he found it so important to plan and execute such an elaborate, redundant plan as I have previously described to ensure his reelection as head of the party.
There is something truly rotten going on with the Georgia Republican Party (Inc). I have been writing to inform you of that since September of 2023 when I first called for Josh McKoon’s resignation. Perhaps one reason McKoon felt it so important to destroy the rules of the party to ensure his reelection as chairman, may have been to protect against any succeeding chairman investigating and discovering what has really been going behind the doors and in the accounts of the GRP, Inc. During the 2024 election cycle, some $23 million, that we know of, flowed through those accounts. Likely an equal amount will flow through leading up to the 2026 elections. Some very questionably-scrupulous players have taken control of how that money might be channeled. You do the math.
If Josh McKoon is smart (???), he will force the Frost children out of their positions in the party. The big question we should be asking is whether factors about which we are unaware might be forcing McKoon to allow them to stay.
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