Angry residents demand probe into DA Fani Willis’ ‘funny business’ at fiery district meeting
Residents of Fulton County, Georgia, called for district Attorney Fani Willis to be investigated at a firey meeting of the county’s Board of Commissioners on Wednesday.
During the public input section of the meeting, residents zeroed in on Willis and her relationship with special prosecutor Nathan Wade, who was paid almost $700,000 to investigate election fraud in the county.
Fani, said to be in a relationship with Wade, stands accused of then benefitting by him taking her on lavish trips paid for with the money earned from the county.
“I’m done with Fulton County fumbling our elections… I’m disgusted…at the DA’s apparent love affair with the Special Prosecutor … the gross mismanagement of taxpayer dollars,” resident Derrick Blassingame told attendees, who applauded his remarks.
Several other residents who spoke during the meeting also called for an investigation into Willis’ use of county funds as part of her investigation into interference in the 2020 presidential election, a case which involves former President Donald Trump and over a dozen co-defendants.
Resident Kevin Muldowney, claimed: “It has also come to light special prosecutor Wade billed the county for 24 hours in a single day, I guess his outstanding stamina was a prerequisite for his position.
“Fulton County commissioners never approved the hiring but paid him anyway … I am requesting this board perform a full audit of [Willis’] entire budget.
“It seems she has wasted a ton of taxpayer dollars on non-county business, not to mention the taxpayer dollars spent on Fani’s funny business,” he told the panel.
Another attendee, who wore a wig and glasses to remain “incognito,” pulled a hot dog out of a bag labelled ‘Nathans’ and began to wave it around at the panel.
The remarks came after Governor of Georgia, Brian Kemp, described accusations of misconduct by the District Attorney prosecuting Trump election interference cases in the state as “deeply troubling,” to The Post.
“These allegations are deeply troubling and evidence should be presented quickly in order for [presiding] Judge McAfee to rule and the public to have confidence in this trial moving forward,” the governor’s office said in a statement to The Post.
Fulton County Commissioner Bob Ellis has also launched an investigation and demanded Willis account for how all of the public money her office has spent.
In the note, Ellis asked Willis whether she received gifts from Wade and requested a tranche of documents for full transparency.
“These were fairly straightforward requests which any elected official who is entrusted with public funds should supply that information back,” Ellis wrote.
Ellis, a Republican, said the inquiry into Willis, who is a Democrat, is non-partisan.
“We’re talking about numbers, we’re talking about dollars, we’re talking about facts,” he said.
“We’re not talking partisan, we’re not talking race. We’re talking about the citizens’ money and whether it is being used in the way it was intended.”
The co-prosecutors were first accused of having an “improper” relationship in a motion filed earlier this month by Michael Roman, one of Donald Trump’s co-defendants in Willis’ Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act probe.
Roman’s lawyer, Ashleigh Merchant, accused Willis and Wade of having “violated laws regulating the use of public monies, suffer from irreparable conflicts of interest, and have violated their oaths of office under the Georgia Rules of Professional Conduct and should be disqualified from prosecuting this matter.”
Credit card statements filed in the case of Wade’s divorce from his wife showed he had purchased tickets for him and Willis to fly to San Francisco and Miami, but neither have publicly addressed whether they are in a relationship.
