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Fani Willis Fulton County Democratic DA Primary ends


Disgraced and Embattled Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis faced voters for the first time Tuesday. This is the first of two elections she's got and first since launching her investigation into former President Donald Trump. Willis, a Democrat, has defeated attorney Christian Wise Smith in the Democratic primary district attorney race. Willis will face Republican Courtney Kramer, who is running unopposed in the GOP primary, in the November general election. However, it remains to be seen if the general election will be competitive in Fulton County, a deeply Democratic area home to Atlanta. The primary on Tuesday follows increased scrutiny from some voters regarding her handling of the Trump election interference case in recent months. 

Her case centers on Trump and his allies’ alleged attempts to overturn the outcome of the 2020 presidential election in Georgia, a swing state that narrowly supported President Joe Biden. Trump has pleaded not guilty to all charges and accused Willis of targeting him for political reasons. Willis has had her share of investigations since she decided to prosecute former President Donald Trump and his co-defendants, and the investigations are not stopping. Her office is now being investigated on allegations that it misused federal funds. 

Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Ron Johnson of Wisconsin penned a letter to Willis on Wednesday in which they demanded information about her office’s alleged misuse of federal grant funds “The apparent and significant discrepancy between the purpose of the federal award of taxpayer money and the actual use of that money raises alarms that it hasn’t been used as Congress intended. The waste or misuse of taxpayer funds is unacceptable,” the letter said. “Congress has the right to know where federal tax dollars are sent and how they’re spent,” Sen. Grassley said. “These federal funds were intended to help vulnerable youth and support important law enforcement initiatives, but the Fulton County DA’s office appears to have used them to fulfill their own whims. 

Any official who squanders taxpayer funds should be held accountable.” The Beacon said its own investigation discovered misuse of certain funds. “The Free Beacon uncovered several instances of Willis dipping into federal grants to purchase computers and pay for travel. In 2020, the Justice Department granted the Atlanta Police Department $2 million to help clear its rape kit backlog. County records show Willis’s office pulled nearly $13,000 from that grant to purchase computers, and spent an additional $27,000 on airfare, hotels, and car rentals,” the report said. The investigation comes as an appeals court will hear an appeal from the former president’s attorneys to have her removed from the case. 

 Former President Donald Trump’s legal team has informed the Fulton County Superior Court that he will formally appeal the court’s previous ruling allowing District Attorney Fani Willis to remain on her RICO case she filed against him and 18 others alleging interference in the 2020 election. The issue with Willis began in early January when former White House staff member Michael Roman filed a motion seeking to disqualify DA Willis from prosecuting the case against Trump and his co-defendants. The motion alleged that Willis had an “improper” relationship with then-Special Prosecutor Nathan Wade and claimed that she financially benefited from both the investigation and the relationship. 

 On March 15, Judge Scott McAfee ruled that Trump and his co-defendants “failed to meet their burden” of proving that the romantic relationship between Willis and Wade constituted a “conflict of interest” or that Willis benefited from it. However, McAfee acknowledged a “significant appearance of impropriety” and decided that either Willis or Wade would need to step aside for the case to proceed in Fulton County. A few hours later, Wade resigned. On March 18, Trump and several of his co-defendants sought permission from Judge McAfee to appeal his decision, and on March 20, McAfee granted their request. 

On March 29, attorneys for Trump and his co-defendants filed an application for an interlocutory appeal, arguing that Wade’s departure did not resolve the appearance of impropriety and had “cast a pall over these entire proceedings.” On May 8, the Georgia Court of Appeals agreed to hear the appeal, giving Trump and his 14 co-defendants 10 days to file a notice of appeal, thus transferring the case from Fulton County Superior Court to the Court of Appeals, Fox 5 reported.

Text Message From Fani Willis’ Office Shows Investigator Hitting on Witness



The Fulton County District now disgraced and who should be disbarred Attorney Fani Willis’ and office is facing another scandal. It just came out that text messages produced in court demonstrate that while working on a case, an investigator for Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’s office made advances on a witness. This happened during the RICO trial for Young Slime Life (YSL) against rapper Young Thug (real name Jeffrey Williams) and several co-defendants proceeded on Monday, additional information regarding the actions of an investigator working for Willis’ office surfaced. During Williams’s cross-examination of a female witness known only as A. Bennett, the witness’s lawyer questioned her regarding messages she had received from Hamilton, the county investigator. Among the text messages was one from Hamilton that read: “Hit me up if you’re bored later. We’re not gonna talk shop.” Asked what it was the investigator wanted to talk to her about, Bennett told attorney Keith Adams that Hamilton wanted to discuss going out on “a date” with her.

“And this is February 7 of 2024, this year, when the investigator for the DA’s office is supposed to be talking to you about a case, but in fact, is calling you talking about going on a date. Is that true?” Adams asked the witness. “Yes,” she replied. Bennett also testified that Hamilton had called her “mama” several times. In a text message that was shown to the court, the investigator had texted the witness, “G[ood] m[orning] Mama. Hope you slept well. Again don’t come at 1:30. I have a feeling the defense will keep this same witness from yesterday all day again today. I’ll give you an update at 3pm. You will most likely go up tomorrow morning. I’ll talk 2 u soon.”

Newsweek reported: “Bennett is testifying in the case about a robbery that Williams and two others allegedly committed in 2013. Williams and 27 others were indicted in a sweeping RICO case by Willis in May 2022. The district attorney is accusing Williams of being the kingpin of Young Slime Life, an Atlanta-based street gang affiliated with the notorious national Bloods gang.”

“The YSL trial has been underway since November and is expected to go well into 2024. Monday marks the 54th day of the trial. Monday’s text messages are the latest details in the sexual harassment allegations being raised by Williams’ defense team,” the outlet added.

Bennett testified before the court last month that Hamilton had harassed her sexually and had once told her he wanted to “take her out when the investigation was over.” She explained that the investigator had wanted to discuss the case with her alone at a restaurant, but she didn’t feel comfortable going alone, so she ended up bringing her 2-year-old son along. Adams asked Bennett: “Did the fact that this employee of the district attorney’s office was trying to date you come into your mind as you were thinking about whether you would be coming in and testifying or not?”

“Yes,” she responded. Bennett further stated in her Monday testimony that Adriane Love, the chief deputy district attorney, and other members of Willis’ staff unnerved her. She claimed that even after informing the district attorney’s office that she had nothing further to say regarding the purported robbery, they still harassed her. Last month, Love’s attorneys attempted to have her removed from the case on the grounds that she had “voluntarily and continuously” inserted herself into the case, thereby making herself a witness.

The presiding judge in the case decided last week not to disqualify Love. Willis has also made national headlines in her case against former President Donald Trump and other co-defendants.

Judge will Hold Hearing on Allegations of DA Fani Willis’s ‘Improper’ Use of Funds + Affair



Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee indicated a hearing on what one attorney termed “scandalous” allegations surrounding the district attorney’s relationship with a prosecutor would be held mid-February.

During a hearing the Georgia Judge let it known that he will be holding motion hearings every Friday for the next several weeks in the case Fulton County possible case against D.A Fani Willis. Yes the same one who is prosecuting former President Donald Trump for his constitutional right to challenge the 2020 election results.

The President Trump and 14 codefendants have been charged with violating the state’s Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act and have been accused of operating a criminal conspiracy in their election challenge efforts. Remember this is a witch haunt because all Trump did was to ask them to make sure all votes were accounted for and make sure that they look into the possible rigging done. Like we saw in the footage of people pulling out bags in the middle of the night when all other people were told to go home that they were closed for the night.

We saw on the CCTV there were people who stayed behind and they pulled out secret bags from under the tables in the room and jammed those fake ballots which we now know all were in favor of Joe "BIG GUY" Biden. So we know they helped rig the election in 2020 from these things the left & the M.S.M refuses to admit happened.

So we have Trump being on trial for questioning the events while Stacey Abrams who lost multiple times and has yet to ever admit she lost in a clean election! Only thing different is she's a radical leftists who has a sister who is a Judge, and she's a fat black woman so if you say anything against her it's a tool for the left to be able to attack you with such words as "White Supremacist, racist, misogynists, and so on.

Earlier this week, defendant Michael Roman, a former GOP strategist, made huge accusations of the “improper” use of funds in the district attorney’s office. So this made people see for themselves how corrupt this woman is. He alleged that Nathan Wade, an attorney for the prosecution who has argued at every hearing in the case, had taken lavish vacations with Ms. Willis using state funds. Mr. Wade is currently married and seeking divorce.

Mr. Wade is a partner at his own, private law firm, and would be paid by the district attorney’s office after his appointment as special prosecutor, which the motion alleges is close to $1 million in legal fees. Mr. Wade has been paid at a rate of $250 per hour, and around $650,000 for this case.

Mr. Roman also alleged the funds for the case investigation had been obtained “to clear the COVID backlog” but not used for those purposes. In a 100-plus page filing, Mr. Roman argued this was grounds for dismissal of his charges and dismissal of the district attorney and her team.

Prosecutors have not yet filed a response to the motion but said they would do so. Judge McAfee said a hearing on this motion would not be scheduled until after the court has received the response, and the earliest would likely be mid-February.

In the court hearing, Steve Sadow, attorney for Donald Trump, asked for the option to adopt the motion at a later date. He said he presently had no foundation for the “scandalous and salacious” allegations, the first of which was made public through the court filing, and would certainly wait to see the district attorney’s response filing before making a decision to adopt Mr. Roman’s filing. The judge had no issue with him doing so.

In the court filing, Mr. Roman only cites “sources” and does not provide evidence of Mr. Wade and Ms. Willis’s relationship or proof of such vacation expenditure. “Admittedly, this is a bold allegation considering it is directed to one of the most powerful people in the State of Georgia, the Fulton County District Attorney,” the filing reads.

“Nevertheless, the district attorney’s fame and power do not change the fact that she decided to appoint as the special prosecutor a person with whom she had a personal relationship and who is now leading the day-to-day prosecution of this case.”



Mr. Roman argued that public records don’t show that Ms. Willis obtained county approval to appoint Mr. Wade as special prosecutor, and that he has sealed records in his ongoing divorce case. He argued this was “indefensible conduct” and thus created an “irreparable defect” in the indictment.

Ms. Willis is already under investigation by House Republicans, who have alleged election interference and “colluding” with the Jan. 6 Select Committee. Jan. 12, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) sent a letter to Mr. Wade demanding materials and as part of oversight of “politically motivated prosecutions by state and local officials.”

Mr. Jordan had previously asked Ms. Willis to provide documents and correspondence as part of an investigation, arguing her actions have indicated the case was politically motivated against President Trump, the front runner for the Republican Party nominee. The committee is asking Mr. Wade for documents that show the district attorney’s coordination “with other politically motivated investigations and prosecutions and the potential misuse of federal funds.”

“According to a recent court filing, you have been paid more than $650,000 at the rate of $250 per hour to serve as an ‘Attorney Consultant’ and later a ‘Special Assistant District Attorney’ in the unprecedented investigation and prosecution of the former President and other former federal officials. This filing also alleges that while receiving a substantial amount of money from Fulton County, you spent extravagantly on lavish vacations with your boss, Ms. Willis,” the letter reads, referencing Mr. Roman’s motion.

Mr. Wade’s invoices include expenses incurred to interview investigators with the Jan. 6 Select Committee and hours of interviews at the White House. Politico recently reported on the district attorney’s office meeting with the Jan. 6 Select Committee during their investigation, and Mr. Jordan asked Mr. Wade to provide materials to show whether politically motivated collusion had occurred.

Mr. Sadow had previously requested materials from the district attorney’s office which came out of this meeting. During the Jan. 12 hearing, prosecutors confirmed that some notes taken were work product and not subject to discovery, but any video evidence viewed has since been made public.