Scandals are piling up for crooked Trump-hating Fulton County DA Fani Willis.
A newly surfaced audio recording reveals that Fanni Willis was privately warned by a whistleblower about her top aide’s misuse of federal funds.
In 2021, Amanda Timpson, an employee of the Fulton County DA, informed Willis about the aide’s intentions to use a $488,000 federal grant, designated for the establishment of a Center of Youth Empowerment and Gang Prevention, for expenses such as “swag,” computers, and travel.
“He wanted to do things with grants that were impossible, and I kept telling him, like, ‘We can’t do that,’” Timpson can be heard telling Willis. “He told everybody … ‘We’re going to get MacBooks, we’re going to get swag, we’re going to use it for travel.’ I said, ‘You cannot do that, it’s a very, very specific grant.’”
“I respect that is your assessment,” Willis responded. “And I’m not saying that your assessment is wrong.”
However, Fanni Willis evidently disregarded these warnings.
Rather than addressing the allegations or reporting the aide, she chose to “shoot the messenger” instead by firing the whistleblower.
The whistleblower was fired 56 days later and perp walked out of the building.
Listen to the audio recording, obtained by Free Beacon, below:
BREAKING: @FreeBeacon has obtained audio of a whistleblower privately warning Fani Willis in 2021 that her top aide was trying to misuse federal funds.
— Andrew Kerr (@AndrewKerrNC) January 31, 2024
Willis did not dispute the allegations.
56 days later, Willis fired the whistleblower and perp walked her out of the office. pic.twitter.com/YEkKIB2L5f
Free Beacon reported:
Fani Willis may have fired the employee who warned her about mishandling federal funds. But she didn’t deny her allegations.
Less than a year into her tenure as Fulton County district attorney, in 2021, Willis met with Amanda Timpson, an employee in the district attorney’s office responsible for giving nonviolent juvenile offenders “alternatives to the juvenile court system.” During their conversation, a recording of which was reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon, Timpson claimed to Willis that she had been demoted after attempting to stop a top Willis campaign aide from misusing federal grant money meant for a youth gang prevention initiative.
According to Timpson, the aide, Michael Cuffee, planned to use part of a $488,000 federal grant—earmarked for the creation of a Center of Youth Empowerment and Gang Prevention—to pay for “swag,” computers, and travel.
“He wanted to do things with grants that were impossible, and I kept telling him, like, ‘We can’t do that,’” Timpson told Willis in a Nov. 19, 2021, meeting. “He told everybody … ‘We’re going to get MacBooks, we’re going to get swag, we’re going to use it for travel.’ I said, ‘You cannot do that, it’s a very, very specific grant.’”
“I respect that is your assessment,” Willis responded. “And I’m not saying that your assessment is wrong.”
Later in the conversation, Willis apologized to Timpson, and said Cuffee had “failed” her administration.
Less than two months later, Willis abruptly terminated Timpson and had her escorted out of her office by seven armed investigators, according to Timpson. When Timpson filed a whistleblower complaint the following year that alleged wrongful termination, Willis’s office issued a statement describing Timpson as a “holdover from the prior administration” who was terminated because of her “failure to meet the standards of the new administration.”
Timpson’s experience sheds further light on how Willis—who campaigned on the promise of restoring “integrity” to the district attorney’s office—does business. The Democrat has come under fire amid revelations that she tapped her lover, Nathan Wade, to handle the office’s racketeering case against former president Donald Trump. Willis is also alleged to have misappropriated taxpayer funds to facilitate her affair with Wade, a married man with scant prosecutorial experience.
As Breaking Digest previously reported, Fani Willis is currently embroiled in another scandal after it was revealed that she appointed her “lover”, Nathan Wade, as a special prosecutor to handle the case involving President Trump.
According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Fani Willis “financially benefited” from the “improper” romantic relationship.
Georgia Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee scheduled an urgent hearing for February 15 to examine the accusations against Willis and her chief prosecutor.
Nathan Wade’s Capital One credit card statements provided by his wife, Jocelyn Wade, reveal that Nathan Wade purchased plane tickets in Willis’ name.
Wade also spent money on Willis by buying her flowers, and paying for hotels, air travel, a cruise, and Ubers.
The Georgia State Senate is preparing to authorize a subpoena-empowered committee to investigate the alleged criminal misconduct and corruption of Fani Willis.
On Friday, Georgia State Representative Charlice Byrd (R-Woodstock) formally introduced articles of impeachment against Fani Willis.
