In response to House Oversight Committee Chair Jim Jordan’s (R-OH) request for information on how her office used national offers, Franklin County District Attorney Fani Willis wrote a scathing email in response to his investigation, which he described as “politically motivated” and compared his efforts to violent acts that were threatened against her and her family.
A version of Willis ‘ letter, which CNN’s Zachary Cohen obtained, helps to illustrate the troubled Democratic attorney who has been the subject of numerous state and federal investigations since being charged earlier this year with having a romantic relationship with a superior attorney, She reproaches Rep. Jordan for requesting the issuance of documents to support her office’s approval of provincial gang-distribution funding, which whistleblowers claim she diverted to aid her investigation into former president Donald Trump.
We have now provided you with in-depth details about our plans, which are funded by national grants, she writes.
Your main complaint, in our opinion, is that we did not finish the production of your extension document requirements ( including five different types of documents over a four-year period ) in less than two months. That need is absurd and uncustomary, and it would require the government to divert resources away from our main goal of prosecuting crimes, she continued.
We wo n’t stop this office from trying to prosecute crimes, including gangland, violent acts, and public corruption, in order to meet unreasonable deadlines in your politically motivated “investigation” of this office.
GOP Rep. Jim Jordan’s request for records is met with by Fulton County DA Fani Willis, who calls his “politically motivated” investigation into her company. photograph. twitter.com/x672ZhbjIP
— Zachary Cohen ( @ZcohenCNN) March 27, 2024
In the end, Willis and Jordan square off, warning him that any investigation that might interfere with her research into Trump would be similar to the harsh and racist dangers she claims to have received as a result of her own investigation.
Nothing you do will stop my team and I from trying to bring the election meddling case to trial so that a jury of Fulton County residents can identify the plaintiffs ‘ guilt or innocence, she writes in her letter. ” My home, my team and I have been threatened repeatedly by persons making violent, often racist, assaults”.
Nothing you say or do, your colleagues, your actions, or any other threats may stop us from carrying out our legal obligations.
Rep. Jordan claimed that his committee had obtained testimony from a leak inside Willis ‘ office after she ordered the redirection of anti-gang funds to increase the cost of her Trump case during a convention speech in February.
” No, we have n’t heard back from her yet. We’ll see what we get”, said Jordan when asked about whether Willis has responded to the agency’s demand for different documents,” but there’s a leak in her business who we have talked to, our commission personnel. And she, the journalist, I think she’s like four legs eleven. However, Fani Willis had seven officers escort her when she fired this woman because she raised concerns that Miss Willis was not using federal money and was not using the grant money in the proper way, he claimed.
According to Jordan, the female journalist was fired after she raised questions about Willis ‘ choice to transfer funds for a youth group diversion program to cover expenses related to her Trump research.
The Oversight Committee warned Willis about the seriousness of diverting federal funds from a stated goal in a letter announcing the start of its investigation to support a Trump case with political ambitions.
These allegations raise serious questions about whether you were properly monitoring the use of federal grant funds by your company and whether you attempted to cover up the use of federal funds by your office, Jordan wrote on behalf of his committee.
A Fulton County prosecutor earlier this month gave Willis permission to continue prosecuting the case, but she also ordered her to fire Nathan Wade, a other prosecutor who was divorcing when the two engaged in an event. Willis ‘ previous partner, Wade’s former partner, testified that his marriage with her extended past, which was implied by the oath, which could have stifled her legal career. Due to the numerous controversy that she has sparked, she has even drawn a Republican contender to run for president.
