NEWNAN — Brant Frost V faces dozens of state ethics complaints accusing a political action committee he led of illegally influencing Georgia elections. His father, Brant Frost IV, has publicly apologized for orchestrating what authorities say was a $140 million Ponzi scheme .

Yet on Thursday evening, Frost V presided over a tense Coweta County GOP meeting without a word about the collapse of the family business, First Liberty Building & Loan — or the hundreds of investors regulators say were bilked out of their life savings.

By the end of the two-hour meeting, Frost V had stepped down as county party chair. But in a show of his continued influence, he was overwhelmingly elected as a district committee member — a post that keeps him tethered to a county Republican Party his family has l

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