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NEW: Jim Jordan Drops Fani Willis Bombshell, Announces Major Whistleblower Development
House Republicans have secured testimony from a whistleblower within the office of embattled Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) announced over the weekend.
The revelation comes as part of the House Oversight Committee’s effort to investigate whether federal funds were misappropriated by Willis in order to continue funding her criminal case against former President Donald Trump. During a forum at the Conservative Political Action Conference over the weekend, Rep. Jordan said his witness is prepared to spill all details about the politically charged environment inside Willis’ office.
“No, we haven’t heard back from her yet. We’ll see what we get,” said Jordan when asked about whether Willis has responded to the committee’s request for various documents, “but there’s a whistleblower in her office who we have talked to, our committee staff. And she, the whistleblower, I think she’s like four foot eleven. But Fani Willis had seven police escort her out when she fired this lady, because this lady raised the concern that Miss Willis was not spending federal funds … not following the grant the rules of the grant and the grant dollars in the appropriate manner,” he said.
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“So she raised this concern and Fani Willis fired her. She’s now talking with our office, and we’ll see where that goes. And that’s why we we subpoenaed for records and documents related to this. We’ll see what we get. There’s still a few hours left in today. She also was interesting. She instead of accepting service on the subpoena, she made us send the US Marshals even though our office had talked with her office, we’ve had correspondence back and forth. She made the US Marshals take the subpoena there. So go figure this is Fani Willis,” Jordan continued, according to the American Tribune.
In a letter announcing the beginnings of its investigation, the Oversight Committee warned Willis about the serious nature of funneling federal funds away from an intended purpose in order to buttress a politically-charged prosecution of Trump.
“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,” Jordan wrote on behalf of his committee.
Willis, who is in the midst of an ongoing struggle to avoid dismissal from the case, has previously said that the allegations she misdirected money to prosecute Trump are “baseless.”
“The courts that have ruled found no merit in these claims,” according to Willis. “We expect the same result in any pending litigation. Any examination of the records of our grant programs will find that they are highly effective and conducted in cooperation with the Department of Justice and in compliance with all Department of Justice requirements.”
