When Brian Kemp entered the governor’s mansion in 2019, he carried significant debt. But by the end of his first term, much of it had vanished.
New reporting by Courier Georgia has found that one of the ways he shed it was by selling lakefront properties in a series of six-figure transactions. Kemp’s company, Shelter Rock, had struggled to sell the properties for more than a decade. But two years into his term as governor, he sold them—all to buyers who later received something from the state.

















