JEFFERSON CITY — The prolific campaign donations of Jeffrey E. Smith are now drawing attention in another state where he has worked the political system: Georgia. Last Sunday, the Post-Dispatch reported on Smith’s attempts to use 10 cleverly named political committees to obscure his various donations to Missouri politicians.

Now, an investigative reporter in Atlanta is finding Smith’s donations in Georgia worth some attention. According to the Atlanta Unfiltered Web site, which is run by former Atlanta Journal-Constitution reporter and editor Jim Walls, Smith has failed to report thousands of dollars in donations to various politicians.

Walls tracked the donations through campaign records, and found that a committee called the Fund for Georgia’s Future had failed to record several donations to candidates. One of Smith’s companies is a major donor to the fund.

Wrote Walls:

The committee, registered as the Funds for Georgia’s Future, failed to report at least $73,000 in political donations in Georgia in 2007 and 2008, according to disclosure reports filed by the candidates receiving the money. Nor did it disclose a gift of $50,000 to the Republican Governors Association in 2007 while Gov. Sonny Perdue chaired that organization.

On Thursday, the committee filed five reports listing about $62,000 of those contributions, shortly after Atlanta Unfiltered called the fund’s chairman to ask why the donations had not been disclosed. Those reports were filed four to 13 months after statutory deadlines.

The donations were divided among Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle, the GOP leadership of the Georgia House and Senate, House Minority Leader Dubose Porter and the chairmen and vice chairmen of Appropriations Committees in both chambers.

Smith has been involved in tax credit legislation in both states. Georgia’s law on housing tax credits is modeled after the one in Missouri that Smith helped write. Missouri lawmakers are considering changes to the law, including capping the total number of tax credits available to developers.