This story was originally published by the WND News Center.

A tax-writing member of Congress has recommended that the Internal Revenue Service revoke the tax-exempt status of a nonprofit linked to failed Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams, an election denier who long after the votes were counted still claimed she won.

A report at Fox News noted the organization founded by Abrams, New Georgia Project, recently was fined $300,000 for violating state election laws, as determined by the Georgia Ethics Commission.

Rep. Jason Smith, R-Mo., and the chief of the House Ways & Means Committee, described the punishment as "the largest penalty in the Ethics Commission's history and possibly the largest ethics fine ever issued in the United States."

His comments, the report said, came in a letter to IRS Commissioner Melanie Krause.

At issue in the case was the organization's failure to reveal some $4 million in campaign contributions and more than $3 million spending during the time it backed Abrams' failed 2018 run for governor.

"As you know, under Internal Revenue Code Section 501(c)(3), organizations are strictly prohibited from participating in or intervening in any political campaign on behalf of or in opposition to any candidate for public office," the member of Congress explained. "The IRS may revoke an organization's tax-exempt status or assess excise taxes for certain types of violations if it determines the organization is noncompliant as it relates to political campaign intervention."

Abrams started the group in 2013 and apparently left sometime in 2017.

A New Georgia Project affiliated group, the New Georgia Project Action Fund, accepts donations that are not tax-exempt, and it is allowed to endorse.

Smith charged, 'The New Georgia Project's intervention in the 2018 election cycle in support of Stacey Abrams and other candidates' campaigns amounts to a clear violation of their tax-exempt status."

He said that's cause for the group to lose the privilege of being tax-exempt.

He said, "it is clear that the New Georgia Project crossed the line into prohibited activity by intervening in the 2018 election cycle on behalf of Stacey Abrams and several other candidates."

It's not only the controversy that has been linked to Abrams recently.

WND reported when it was revealed she was behind one of the more egregious spending schemes that happened with tax money during Joe Biden's administration.

In her program, taxpayers bought new appliances for residents of a Georgia town so their energy bills would do down.

In an MSNBC interview, she said, the "program" was to lower costs for residents of De Soto, Georgia.

It was in 2023 and 2024, she said, "We worked in a tiny town in south Georgia to demonstrate that by replacing energy inefficient appliances with efficient appliances you can lower your costs," she said.

That's what happened when EPA-controlled tax funding went to that enterprise, she said. One woman's electricity bill was halved to $98 because she was given new appliances, by taxpayers.

The EPA then said such a program should be expanded.

Added another, "This is a ridiculous theft! Of course new appliances are more energy efficient! My household saved money for new washer, dryer, refrigerator, and our energy bills WERE less. BUT…the EPA has no business 'giving' my tax $ to others for this purchase. She needs be prosecuted."