It has come to light that several whistleblowers have lined up to testify against Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and told investigators they believe the Democrat prosecutor misused state and federal funds in her crusade against former President Donald Trump.
As per NewsNation, an emergency hearing by the Georgia legislature is scheduled for this week, and lawmakers are saying that quite a few of the whistleblowers are “eager” to share information they claim is being suppressed by Willis.
Ashley Merchant, an attorney representing one of Trump’s co-defendants who accused Willis of hiding an affair with a subordinate, claims the prosecutor lied in an affidavit last week about when the affair began.
Since Willis and [Nathan Wade] were not being forthright about their relationship in the first instance, there is no reason to believe they are telling the truth now,” Merchant wrote in a filing this week.
In his capacity as a special prosecutor in the case, Wade is said to have charged Willis at least $728,000, according to records that Merchant was able to get. Willis has painted the situation as being driven by politics and race since he finally recognized the relationship following weeks of harsh criticism. The evidentiary hearing that is set for this Thursday is being challenged by her office.
The legislature is investigating Willis, led by state senator Bill Cowsert, following the denial of pleas to Republican Governor Brian Kemp. Under the direction of Oversight Committee Chair Jim Jordan (R-OH), U.S. House Republicans have coordinated Willis’s case with a related federal one brought by the Biden Justice Department, launching a separate inquiry into whether or not she misused funds.
“You lose the confidence of the public in the fairness of our criminal justice system if they think prosecutors are engaging in prosecution so that their lovers can get rich and they can share in the benefits of that,” Cowsert said to reporters last week, adding that his investigation is “not a political witch hunt.”
