House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) on Thursday threatened to hold Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis in contempt of Congress over her failure to comply with the Committee’s subpoena for documents and communications.
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The Republican-led Judiciary Committee opened an investigation into the DA’s indictments of former president Donald Trump and his associates last August, saying the charges appeared to be politically motivated.
In December, the Committee also announced that had launched an inquiry into her office’s coordination with the partisan January 6 Committee, and in January 2024, the Judiciary Committee announced it was launching an inquiry into her boyfriend Nathan J. Wade, the special prosecutor she hired to lead the Georgia election interference case against Trump and his co-defendants.
On February 2, 2024, the Committee issued a subpoena requesting documents and communications after several attempts to obtain voluntary compliance failed.
The subpoena compelled the production of “documents and communications relating to the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office’s (FCDAO) receipt and use of federal funds and documents and communications relating to any allegations of the misuse of federal funds by the FCDAO.”
The Committee said Willis “produced a narrow set of documents on February 23, 2024,” but failed to produce the bulk of materials requested.
“On February 23, 2024, you responded to the Committee’s subpoena with a letter in which you smeared a former employee of yours who spoke out about your misuse of federal grant funds,” Jordan wrote in a letter to Willis.
We will not dignify your attacks on this brave whistleblower, or your continued attempts to distract from your conduct through misdirection and personal insults. The allegations in the public realm about your misuse of federal grant funding are concerning, and the Committee has an obligation to examine them.
Multiple whistleblowers within the Fulton County DA’s office have reportedly come forward alleging “misuse of federal and state funds.”
The Committee said Willis did not produce any of the following categories of documents:
All documents and communications referring or relating to any allegations of the misuse of federal funds by the FCDAO;
All documents or communications between or among the FCDAO and the Justice Department, including its OJP and OVW components;
All communications between FCDAO employees about the receipt or use of federal grants;
All documents that fall within the scope of the subpoena, such as the FCDAO’s Applications, Proposal Abstracts, Grant Agreements, Financial Management and System of Internal Controls Questionnaire, and Consolidated Budget Summary documents; and
All documents and communications relating to the FCDAO’s Grant Performance Measurement and Progress Reporting Information.
“While you have indicated that additional documents may be forthcoming in response to the Committee’s subpoena, the Committee has yet to receive any additional responsive materials in the three weeks since your initial response,” Jordan wrote in the letter. “Accordingly, the Committee expects that you will produce all responsive documents to the subpoena in the categories prioritized by the Committee no later than 12:00 p.m. on March 28, 2024. If you fail to do so, the Committee will consider taking further action, such as the invocation of contempt of Congress proceedings.”
Trump and the co-defendants are seeking to remove Willis from the Georgia election interference case based on allegations that she and Wade engaged in an improper romantic relationship that financially benefitted the district attorney.
A misconduct hearing over whether to disqualify Fulton Willis from the case concluded on March 1. Fulton County Judge Scott McAfee has pledged to issue a ruling on the case by the end of the week.
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