Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has been hit with a $21,578 bill for attorney’s fees after repeatedly failing to comply with Georgia’s Open Records Act (ORA).
The ruling comes as part of a lawsuit filed by conservative watchdog Judicial Watch following an open records request related to communications with the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. At the time, Willis’ office initially claimed that no such records existed.
According to Mediaite, regardless of repeated assurances from the DA’s office, the court found that Willis had withheld crucial documents, including a letter she wrote to the Jan. 6 committee chair.
Under pressure from the court, Willis later acknowledged the existence of some documents but argued that they were exempt from disclosure. The court didn’t buy the explanation, emphasizing that her office failed to search for the records until forced by litigation.
Judge Robert McBurney criticized the DA’s office for its noncompliance, noting that the “Records Custodian’s own admission” proved the office had ignored the records request.
“No one searched until prodded by civil litigation,” he wrote in a scathing ruling.
In the court’s decision on Jan. 3, Judge McBurney highlighted the severity of Willis’ repeated violations and ordered her office to pay Judicial Watch’s legal fees.
“Fani Willis flouted the law, and the court is right to slam her and require, at a minimum, the payment of nearly $22,000 to Judicial Watch,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “But in the end, Judicial Watch wants the full truth on what she was hiding — her office’s political collusion with the Pelosi January 6 committee to ‘get Trump.’”
The payment is due by Jan. 17th.
Last month, Willis was also disqualified from the 2020 election interference case against President-elect Trump over her inappropriate relationship with former special prosecutor Nathan Wade.
This article originally appeared on Great America News Desk. It is republished with permission.
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Fanny is a waste of skin
This article was quite ambiguous regarding who has to pay Judicial Watch. I suspect it is the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office and not Fani Willis personally. Please clarify.
While I would have preferred Fani Willis personally having to pay the $21K, I suspect it was the Fulton County DA’s Office. If that is the case, it is up to the people of the state of Georgia and their representatives to hold Willis accountable as it is quite clear she was the one behind the violation of this court order.
I would love to see her Law License revoked for lying and falsification to bring charges against a citizen, in this case, President Trump.
Wallis is yet another in a long stream of incompetent, uneducated, corrupt minority individuals whose grasp of ethics and morals is practically non-existent. She should be clerking at a McDonalds rather than holding any seat of power even in a leftist city government. She should be ashamed of her actions but doubtless is ignorant of what she did wrong.
Sho should rightly spend some serious time in prison.
I am pretty sure that forcing Willis to pay attorney fees is against the law in Fulton County… after all Willis is a woman of color and is not supposed to be held accountable under her law, just saying!
What about all the money her and her stud embezzled from the state of Georgia for their get away time. They massaged their records, similar to what the communist democrats accused Trump of doing, so they should be held accountable for that. 5-10 in the slammer sounds good to me.