Chairman Jim Jordan demanded she hand over documents regarding allegations she had fired a whistleblower who tried to prevent one of her campaign aides from misusing federal funds.
"Instead of using these federal grant funds for the intended purpose of helping at-risk youths," Jordan wrote in a letter obtained by NBC News, "your office sought to use the grant funds to 'get Macbooks ... swag ... [and] use it for travel.'
He added that the whistleblower's direct supervisor "stated that these planned expenditures 'were part of [your] vision'."
"These allegations," Jordan said, "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."
Audio of the whistleblower, Amanda Timpson, warning Willis in November 2021 that the campaign aide in question had been trying to misuse funds was posted to X.
"Once I told him about his ... lack of leadership and the fact that he wanted to do things with grants that were impossible," Timpson said of the aide. "He would take me off projects, tell people I wasn't doing what I was supposed to because I questioned him."
She went on to tell Willis that despite her warnings, the aide said he wanted to use the grant money to "get MacBooks, ... get swag, ... use it for travel," saying he "had no idea what he was doing."
"I respect that is your assessment," Willis replied, adding that she wasn't saying Timpson was wrong.
A little under two months after the recording date, Timpson was fired.
According to NBC News, the committee had requested the documents on two previous occasions, but Willis failed to comply, saying last year that there is "no justification in the Constitution for Congress to interfere with a state criminal matter."
The new subpoena asks for all documents and communications "referring or relating to the Fulton County District Attorney's Office's receipts and use of federal funds" and "referring or relating to any allegations of the misuse of federal funds."
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2024-02-02T11:20-0500 | Comment by: Dean
Let's see: Willis is BLACK, female, liberal. anti-Trump and in Atlanta. Nothing to see here folks. Move along. Even the local paper, the AJC, is trying to bury this.