Overview

• The Georgia State Ethics Commission rejected the Carr campaign’s ethics complaint, concluding it did not allege any violation of the Government Transparency and Campaign Finance Act
• Commission Director David Emadi explained that Jones’s 2022 financial disclosure offered no legal basis to probe the 2025 campaign loan
• Jones’s $10 million personal loan was issued through his leadership committee, authorized by a 2021 law allowing certain state officials to raise unlimited funds
• Attorney General Chris Carr’s campaign challenged the loan’s source, prompting the complaint that Jones’s team dismissed as a political ploy
• Carr’s campaign has also requested a formal advisory opinion on whether leadership committees can legally lend money to candidate campaigns