House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) sent a subpoena to Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, seeking documents related to the DA’s office reportedly planning to mishandle federal grant funds. Willis, who’s in charge of the Georgia election interference case against former President Donald Trump, is already embroiled in a scandal involving special prosecutor Nathan Wade, whom she appointed to lead the Trump prosecution and allegedly had an affair with at the time of his hiring.
On August 24, 2023, the House committee wrote to Willis requesting documents in the custody of her office detailing its receipt and usage of federal grant funds issued by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). Since then, the committee sent two follow-up letters, on September 27, 2023 and December 5, 2023, reiterating the requests, with which Willis has failed to comply voluntarily.
According to a recent report by The Washington Free Beacon, an ex-employee has accused Willis’s office of wanting to squander funds—meant for the creation of a youth advocacy center—on “frivolous, unrelated” expenses, such as “swag” and travel.
For the fiscal year 2020, the DOJ awarded the DA’s office a $488,000-plus federal grant to establish the Fulton County Center of Youth Empowerment and Gang Prevention “to work with boys and girls ages 12-17 who are at risk of joining gangs, were exposed to gang violence or victimized by criminal street gangs, or seeking assistance in removing themselves from gang activity,” according to the award information outlined by the DOJ’s Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.
oh no! not another strongly worded letter that means diddlysquat! what a farce this shitshow called washington is!