Fani Willis just found herself in the middle of a new scandal.
It’s Willis’ conduct that is now the issue.
And Fani Willis could face criminal charges over this Jim Jordan letter.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’ arrogance and stubbornness could land her under two different criminal investigations.
Judge Scott McAfee all but invited Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr to indict her on perjury charges, writing that there was an “odor of mendacity” surrounding Willis’ testimony in a hearing to disqualify her from her RICO indictment of Donald Trump over the 2020 election.
Now House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan is threatening to refer Willis for criminal prosecution for contempt of Congress unless she complies with Jordan’s request to turn over documents in an investigation into Willis’ office allegedly misusing federal funds.
“While you have indicated that additional documents may be forthcoming in response to the Committee’s subpoena, the Committee has yet to receive any additional responsive materials in the three weeks since your initial response,” Jordan wrote to Willis. “Accordingly, the Committee expects that you will produce all responsive documents to the subpoena in the categories prioritized by the Committee no later than 12:00 p.m. on March 28, 2024.”
The Judiciary Committee’s investigation grew out of whistleblower allegations made by Fulton County District Attorney’s Office employee Amanda Timpson that a Willis aide named Michael Cuffee misused federal funds for personal use.
“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’s letter added.
A bombshell Washington Free Beacon report revealed Timpson went to Willis with her concerns about how Cuffee allegedly wanted to divert federal funds for a youth gang prevention initiative to pay for personal computers and vacations.
“He wanted to do things with grants that were impossible, and I kept telling him, like, ‘We can’t do that,’” Timpson told Willis in a conversation recorded on Nov. 19, 2021. “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.’”
Willis appeared to be taking Timpson’s side.
“I respect that is your assessment,” Willis is allegedly heard saying. “And I’m not saying that your assessment is wrong.”
But rather than take action, Willis fired Timpson and had armed guards march her out of the building in a move Timpson claimed was an act of intimidation.
Now Willis is under investigation for this potential corruption.
And Willis’ legal and ethical woes are only growing by the day.