NEW: DOJ Subpoenas Fulton County DA Fani Willis

Federal investigators have reportedly issued a grand jury subpoena for all travel records of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who filed a highly controversial racketeering case against President Donald Trump and a number of his key allies relating to their objections to the results of the 2020 presidential election.

The subpoena seeks detailed records related to Willis’ travel in the fall of 2024, around the time of the presidential election, the New York Times reported Friday. The investigation is being run out of the US Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Georgia, which is led by U.S. Attorney Theodore S. Hertzberg.

The scope of the investigation, and whether Willis is a target of it, is unknown as of this report.

Trump and 18 senior allies, including Rudy Giuliani, former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, multiple lawyers, and several Georgia Republican operatives, were indicted in a controversial racketeering case over challenges to the 2020 election. Willis’ case has long been paralyzed due to impropriety involving her lead prosecutor on the case, Nathan Wade, with whom she had a secretive affair.

Bank records and court filings related to Wade’s divorce case revealed that he paid for lavish vacations with Willis in 2022 and 2023, including Norwegian and Royal Caribbean cruises and trips to Napa Valley, Miami and Aruba.

Wade was paid more than $700,000 for two years of work on the case, all of which was only brought to light because of dogged work by Ashleigh Merchant, an attorney for one of Trump’s co-defendants. The revelations severely weakened Willis’ case, which has largely been paralyzed since last spring.

In December of last year, the Georgia Court of Appeals ruled that Willis could no longer participate in the case due to the scandal, as well as revelations that she coordinated with the Biden-appointed special counsel, Jack Smith, who headed up the administration’s doomed cases against their political opponent. Willis was also found to have coordinated with the Democrat-led January 6 committee.

Separate cases against alternate electors have been dismissed in Nevada and Michigan, while a similar case in Arizona is on life support after a recent appellate court ruling.

News of the subpoena came just one day after former FBI Director James Comey was indicted for obstruction of justice and making false statements to Congress in relation to the bogus Russian collusion investigation. Former CIA Director John Brennan is also under investigation over his contributions to the scheme.