Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis (D) could be facing contempt charges over a subpoena requesting information about her use of federal funds.
House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) threatened the Georgia prosecutor over her failure to turn over documents related to allegations from a now-terminated employee who flagged another former employee’s desire to misuse federal grant money.
The Hill has more:
“We appreciate that you have produced a narrow set of documents in response to the subpoena, but your compliance with the subpoena to date is deficient,” Jordan wrote in the letter.
“If you fail to do so, the Committee will consider taking further action, such as the invocation of contempt of Congress proceedings.”
The allegations center on a former employee of Willis’ who said the district attorney fired her shortly after she raised concerns about how a Willis campaign aide-turned-county employee planned to use federal grants for items outside the scope of a youth violence gang and prevention program.
Willis denied any wrongdoing when the subpoena was first issued in February.
“These false allegations are included in baseless litigation filed by a holdover employee from the previous administration who was terminated for cause. The courts that have ruled found no merit in these claims. 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,” Willis said in a statement.
Thursday’s letter from the House committee highlights Jordan’s focus largely on any documents that could be related to the whistleblower’s claims, including her office’s coordination with the Justice Department offices that oversee the grant funding.
According to Jordan, Willis’s office turned over “15 award letters from the Department of Justice’s Office of Justice Programs and Office of Violence Against, and approximately 27 screenshots of Expense Budget Summaries.”
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