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Brant Frost V, Chairman of the Coweta County GOP and First Vice President of the Georgia Republican Assembly (GRA), has marketed the company along with his father, Brant Frost IV, to be a faith-based firm in the financial world, promoting conservative, Christian values and claiming to be the answer towards funding the “Patriot economy” through funding local businesses. Records from the GRA show that they received a donation of $124,000 from an organization titled First National Investments, which shared an address with First Liberty Building and Loan.

Fayette County School Board Vice Chair Randy Hough, representing District 1, was also involved with the company as a senior development officer.

According to testimonies provided by the Newnan Times-Herald of individuals affected, many clients feel hopeless and panicked about whether they will see their money again. Judy Stanton and her husband, for example, have put $450,000 into the firm in installments from last October to this past April. Stanton noted that she believes the company knew they were in trouble while still accepting clients’ funds. Additionally, she saw that two weeks ago Brant Frost V had posted on social media photos of him and his wife vacationing in England, seemingly not in a panic regarding their company that would be completely in shambles two weeks later.

Unlike traditional banks, First Liberty was not FDIC-insured or regulated by federal banking authorities. The firm raised their money through their clients- who they often had personal meetings with- and creating “First Liberty Notes” that advertised returns of 8-13% annually. These funds were then used to issue short-term bridge loans to local small and mid-sized businesses.



https://thecitizen.com/2025/07/02/first-liberty-building-and-loan-collapses-leaving-clients-in-limbo/


On Real America’s Voice, a sort of online-only version of Fox News, right-wing media personality John Fredericks hosted Frost’s son, Brant Frost V, to tout “First Liberty Notes.” These notes were a new kind of investment product from First Liberty, in which listeners who reached a certain income threshold could buy a minimum of $25,000 worth of the, let’s call them, financial instruments. First Liberty promised purchasers hefty returns of up to 13 percent annually.

All of this was presented as a way to build up the financial foundation to spread conservative causes themselves. In its relentless advertising campaign on talk radio and other conservative media formats, the Frost family promised to funnel the money it received into conservative businesses it billed as part of a Trumpian “patriot economy,” with additional money going to conservative religious and anti-transgender groups.

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/another-blow-conservative-media-financial-foundation-shakeup-brant-frost-first-liberty-erickson-hewitt