House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R., Ohio.) is threatening to initiate contempt of congress proceedings against embattled Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis if her office does not fully comply with a subpoena.
Jordan wrote a letter to Willis on Thursday floating the possibility of contempt proceedings because of Willis’s failure to turn over documents from the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office (FCDAO) related to its use of federal funds and allegations the funds were misused.
“The subpoena compelled the production of two specific categories of documents: (1) documents and communications referring or relating to the FCDAO’s receipt and use of federal funds and (2) documents and communications referring or relating to any allegations of the misuse of federal funds by the FCDAO,” the letter reads.
“We appreciate that you have produced a narrow set of documents in response to the subpoena, but your compliance with the subpoena to date is deficient,” the letter adds.
The FCDAO has not produced documents and communications that fall under the subpoena’s scope, such as those related to the alleged misuse of federal funds and internal communications about the usage of federal grants.
A whistleblower came forward in January alleging Willis’ office retaliated against her after she tried to prevent the FCDAO from misusing federal grant money. Jordan’s letter criticizes Willis’ office for disparaging the whistleblower in a letter to the Judiciary Committee last month.
The subpoena was issued last month as part of the Judiciary Committee’s probe into whether Willis misallocated federal funds by hiring onetime lover Nathan Wade to lead the racketeering prosecution of former president Donald Trump and over a dozen co-defendants.
Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee is weighing a motion to disqualify Willis from the Trump election-interference case following a series of hearings on whether Willis and Wade lied about their relationship timeline. Trump’s attorneys have produced cell phone records indicating Wade and Willis held thousands of phone calls in 2021 and spent nights at or near her home months before they claimed their relationship began. Willis and Wade have insisted their relationship did not begin until after she hired Wade in November 2021 to pursue the election-interference case.
McAfee struck down six counts of the indictment against Trump and his co-defendants on Wednesday for not giving the defense enough information to prepare an argument against the charges. Trump himself is named in three of the counts, and Willis will have to resubmit the counts to the grand jury for them to be restored.