House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, subpoenaed Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis on Friday, intensifying his pursuit of documents from her office. It’s been a priority for Jordan since the Georgia prosecutor indicted former President Donald Trump and 18 others for attempting to steal the 2020 presidential election in that state. But while his past attempts to extract information from Willis have been blatant in their desire to undercut the case against Trump, this time around Jordan is being a bit more subtle.
Jordan’s letter to Willis cites an alleged whistleblower who was fired from her office in what the former employee claims was retaliation for raising concerns about how federal grants have potentially been spent. An expressed concern about how Willis has been spending federal funds is the thing Jordan has been using as a thin justification for his attempts to undercut her case against Trump. Whatever the merit of the alleged whistleblower’s claims, if there’s any merit at all, there’s no reason to believe Jordan actually cares about them.
An expressed concern about how Willis has been spending federal funds is the thing Jordan has been using as a thin justification for his attempts to undercut her case against Trump.
The former employee, Amanda Timpson, led a program focused on gang prevention and intervention in 2018 under Willis’ predecessor. Timpson claimed in an interview with The Washington Free Beacon that she was demoted and then fired after telling a Willis campaign aide that he couldn’t use money from a federal grant issued for gang prevention programming to buy unrelated materials. Jordan cites that report in his letter, claiming that the “allegations raise serious concerns about whether you were appropriately supervising the expenditure of federal grant funding allocated to your office and whether you took actions to conceal your office’s unlawful use of federal funds.”
Willis’ office said in a Friday-morning…
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