WASHINGTON — House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan has subpoenaed Fulton County, Georgia, District Attorney Fannie Willis and requested documents from her office after allegations that Willis’ top campaign aide fired a whistleblower who tried to stop her from misusing federal funds.
A subpoena obtained by NBC News a broader aveobey Jordan, R-Ohio, and House Republicans on whether Willis used federal funds to conduct the more than two-year investigation into former President Donald Trump, who is accused of trying to sway Georgia’s 2020 election in Fulton County last year. was being presidential election results. Trump pleaded not guilty.
In Friday’s letter, Jordan says Willis failed to comply with two previous requests for documents related to his office’s use of federal grant money. The subpoena calls for the district attorney’s office to produce documents and communications that “refer to or relate to the receipt and use of federal funds by the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office” and “refer to or relate to any allegations of misuse of federal funds.”
Willis has an office condemned Jordan’s demands, he wrote in a letter to her last year, “contain no basis for Congress to intervene in a state criminal case.”
Jordan’s request for the documents follows allegations that the district attorney’s office retaliated against a staffer who tried to stop what he said was the misuse of Justice Department grant funding by a top Willis campaign aide.
A former district attorney’s office employee told Willis that he was fired after warning a Willis campaign aide not to misuse federal grant funding for youth gang prevention. call recording This was reported by the conservative Washington Free Beacon. Jordan’s letter cited the report as saying that two months later, the employee was “abruptly fired” and “taken out of his office by seven armed investigators.”
“Instead of using these federal grant funds to help at-risk youth, your office tried to use the grant funds to ‘buy a Macbook…’ [and] Use it for travel,” Jordan wrote. “Furthermore, the whistleblower’s direct supervisor noted that these planned expenses” [your] see.’”
“These allegations raise serious concerns about whether you adequately monitored the spending of federal grant funds allocated to your office and whether you took steps to conceal your office’s improper use of federal funds,” he said.
Willis’ office did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the circumstances of the employee’s departure.
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