Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis allegedly fired an employee in her office who blew the whistle on the misuse of federal funds.

The Washington Free Beacon obtained audio from 2021 of Amanda Timpson, an employee in the district attorney’s office, privately warning Willis that her top aide was misusing a six-figure federal grant.

The $488,000 federal grant was reportedly earmarked for the creation of a Center of Youth Empowerment and Gang Prevention.

“Free Beacon has obtained audio of a whistleblower privately warning Fani Willis in 2021 that her top aide was trying to misuse federal funds. Willis did not dispute the allegations,” investigative reporter Andrew Kerr wrote.

“56 days later, Willis fired the whistleblower and perp walked her out of the office,” he added.

Timpson claimed the aide “wanted to do things with grants that were impossible.”

“And I kept telling him like, we can’t do that, and questioning stuff, and he would take me off projects,” Timpson said.

She said the aide wanted to use the grant for MacBooks, “swag,” and travel.

“I said you cannot do that. It’s a very, very specific grant. Took me off,” she said.

“So I respect that is your assessment,” Willis responded.

“And I’m not saying that your assessment is wrong,” she added.

Listen to the audio obtained by The Washington Free Beacon:

Here’s a YouTube backup:

The Washington Free Beacon reports:

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.

To Timpson, these twin incidents demonstrate “a pattern” in Willis’s conduct.

“My case and Nathan Wade’s case are very similar when you break them down point by point,” Timpson told the Free Beacon. “Ethical violations, abuse of power, and the misuse of county, state, and federal funds.”

According to a new report, Fani Willis and Nathan Wade, her alleged lover, received subpoenas to testify at a court hearing.

From the Atlanta Journal-Constitution:

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and special prosecutor Nathan Wade have been subpoenaed to testify at a Feb. 15 hearing involving motions to disqualify them from the election interference case, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday.

The lawsuit, filed by the law firm of Ashleigh Merchant against the DA’s office, contends the office is intentionally withholding information sought in Open Records Act requests in advance of the upcoming hearing. The DA’s office, in a recent letter, said it has complied with state law.

Merchant represents Michael Roman, one of 15 remaining defendants in the racketeering case that accuses former President Donald Trump of overseeing a criminal conspiracy to overturn the 2020 presidential election results in Georgia.

Earlier this month, Merchant filed an explosive motion that argues Willis and her office should be disqualified from the election case because she has been involved in an improper romantic relationship with Wade. The motion said Willis benefited financially from the relationship, with Wade paying for their vacations and hotel stays with taxpayer money he made for his work on the election case.

Wade was expected to be questioned on Wednesday about the alleged relationship with Willis during a hearing in his divorce proceedings. But on Tuesday he settled with his estranged wife on a temporary basis, cancelling the hearing. Willis had been subpoenaed to testify in the divorce case, but Cobb County Superior Court Judge Henry Thompson said he wants to hear from Wade first before deciding whether Willis needs to testify.

 

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