Fulton County district attorney Fani Willis defended her decision to fire an employee who blew the whistle on attempted abuse of taxpayer funds in her office, saying in a statement Friday she terminated the whistleblower for poor work performance.
But Willis sang a different tune about the whistleblower, former director of juvenile diversion Amanda Timpson, in the months leading up to her abrupt termination in January 2022, emails obtained by the Washington Free Beacon show.
Willis sang Timpson’s praises in a staff-wide email on Sept. 9, 2021, saying the whistleblower had a "dynamic" skill set that would serve her well in her new role as a liaison between two departments in the office. Timpson told the Free Beacon that "file clerk" was a more appropriate description of the role, to which she said Willis demoted her after she first warned the district attorney in a July 2021 meeting that one of her top aides was trying to misappropriate a federal gang prevention grant to pay for "swag," travel, and computers.
"Amanda Timpson will become our new Liaison between Record Restrictions and Pretrial Diversion," Willis said in the email. "She has been dynamic serving with Valencia Younger and will continue in that role assisting with records, but she will now expand to also working intimately with adult diversion as directed by Deputy Toole and Deputy Chief of Staff Epiffany Henry."
"I am really excited about this dynamic group," Willis added.
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