Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is now facing a subpoena from House Republicans over alleged misuse of funds and her actions concerning a former employee turned whistleblower.
House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan accused Willis in a letter on Friday of having “failed to comply” with requests for documents related to Department of Justice funds.
“The Committee’s oversight of your office’s use of federal grant funds is particularly relevant in light of public whistleblower allegations that it has misused federal funding. According to a recent report, your office unlawfully ‘planned to use part of a $488,000 federal grant—earmarked for the creation of a Center of Youth Empowerment and Gang Prevention’— to cover frivolous, unrelated expenses,” the Ohio Republican continued, citing a report in The Washington Free Beacon naming Willis aide Michael Cuffe.
— Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) February 2, 2024
According to the Beacon:
Less than a year into her tenure as Fulton County district attorney, in 2021, Willis met with Amanda Timpson, an employee in the district attorney’s office responsible for giving nonviolent juvenile offenders “alternatives to the juvenile court system.” During their conversation, a recording of which was reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon, Timpson claimed to Willis that she had been demoted after attempting to stop a top Willis campaign aide from misusing federal grant money meant for a youth gang prevention initiative.
“He wanted to do things with grants that were impossible, and I kept telling him, like, ‘We can’t do that,'” Timpson could be heard telling Willis in a recording of the Nov. 19, 2021, meeting. “He told everybody … ‘We’re going to get MacBooks, we’re going to get swag, we’re going to use it for travel.’ I said, ‘You cannot do that, it’s a very, very specific grant.'”
“I respect that is your assessment,” Willis told the aide. “And I’m not saying that your assessment is wrong.”
Less than two months later, Timpson was fired and escorted out of the building by seven armed men.
BREAKING: Whistleblower CATCHES Fulton County DA Fani Willis ON-TAPE stealing grant money, then launching coverup plot— THIS is who is prosecuting TRUMP?! pic.twitter.com/cQVzD4QRji
— vanhoa (@vanhoa2272) February 2, 2024
“Do we sense a pattern here?” Fox News host Jesse Watters asked in a monologue. “Fani’s office takes public money, hires unqualified people and the money gets spent on trips and swag.”
“This is the woman who’s prosecuting [former President Donald] Trump,” he pointed out.
“Instead of using these federal grant funds for the intended purpose of helping at-risk youths, your office sought to use the grant funds to ‘get Macbooks … swag … [and] use it for travel,’” Jordan wrote in the letter to Willis. “Moreover, the whistleblower’s direct supervisor stated that these planned expenditures ‘were part of [your] vision.’”
“These allegations raise serious concerns about whether you were appropriately supervising the expenditure of federal grant funding allocated to your office and whether you took actions to conceal your office’s unlawful use of federal funds,” he added.
Willis has fired back at the “false allegations” in responding to the subpoena.
“These false allegations are included in baseless litigation filed by a holdover employee from the previous administration who was terminated for cause. The courts that have ruled found no merit in these claims,” she said in a statement.
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Originally from New York, Powers graduated from New York University and eventually made her way to sunny South Florida. Powers also contributes to BizPac Review.
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