FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 17, 2025
Contact: Julia Mazzone
Carr Campaign Calls for Legal Scrutiny of Jones’ $10 Million Mystery Loan
The Lt. Governor reported $700,000 in liquid assets but now claims he can write a check for 14 times that amount
(Atlanta, GA) – Legal counsel on behalf of Carr for Georgia filed a formal ethics complaint and a request for an advisory opinion this week with the State Ethics Commission, calling on the Commission to investigate the source of a $10 million loan Burt Jones made to his leadership committee.
In his 2022 financial disclosure, Jones reported a $12 million net worth with only $700,000 in liquid assets. Now he claims to have loaned $10 million to his leadership committee — fourteen times what he previously disclosed. Either he misrepresented his finances then or he’s misrepresenting them now, and Georgians deserve the truth.
“This $10 million loan raises serious ethical concerns about Burt Jones’s willingness to play by the rules,” said campaign spokeswoman Julia Mazzone. “Public office requires public trust. If Burt Jones isn’t honest about his own finances, how can Georgians trust him to be honest about other important matters?”
In addition to the complaint, Carr for Georgia’s legal counsel filed a request for an advisory opinion urging the Commission to clarify if candidates can use leadership committees in this way — a tactic that appears to violate both the letter and spirit of Georgia’s campaign finance laws and erodes public trust.
View the full ethics complaint and request for an advisory opinion here.
About Chris Carr
Chris Carr has served as Georgia’s Attorney General since 2016 with a mission of protecting Georgians’ lives, livelihoods and liberties.
He has won statewide election two times (2018 and 2022) based on his strong, conservative record of prosecuting violent crime, keeping the economy open, defending Georgia’s election integrity law, supporting law enforcement, protecting Georgians’ liberties, going after fraud and corruption, and fighting back against the liberal Biden agenda.
In 2019, he created the first-of-its-kind Human Trafficking Prosecution Unit, which has rescued and assisted over 200 children and secured lengthy prison sentences for their traffickers.
Building off of this successful model, Chris created Georgia’s first statewide Gang Prosecution Unit in 2022 and has obtained more than 100 convictions across the state so far.
His Statewide Opioid Task Force, which includes more than 300 public, private and nonprofit entities, has been cited as a national model. Georgia is now poised to receive more than one billion dollars for treatment after Chris initiated legal action against those who contributed to the opioid crisis.
In protecting Georgians’ liberties, Chris has fought back against egregious federal overreach from Washington and has sued the Biden administration over its failure to secure our borders.
Chris previously served as Commissioner of the Georgia Department of Economic Development (GDEcD) under Governor Nathan Deal from November 2013 to November 2016. Georgia was recognized as the top state in the nation in which to do business for each of the three years Chris served as commissioner. Under his leadership, GDEcD helped to facilitate 1,069 projects across the state that represent approximately $14.4 billion in investment and the creation of more than 84,000 jobs.
Prior to joining GDEcD, Chris was Chief of Staff for U.S. Senator Johnny Isakson for six years. During his time in Washington, Chris advised the Senator on federal legislation and numerous judicial nominees for the U.S. Supreme Court and lower federal courts in Georgia and across the country.
Chris began his career with Georgia Pacific, then practiced law with Alston & Bird LLP in Atlanta, and later served as Vice President and General Counsel for the Georgia Public Policy Foundation.
Chris is a graduate of the University of Georgia’s Terry College of Business and Lumpkin School of Law.
Chris and his wife, Joan, have two grown daughters.
