House Judiciary Committee will investigate embattled Georgia DA following Free Beacon report

Federal and local lawmakers are investigating allegations that Fulton County district attorney Fani Willis (D.) fired a whistleblower who tried to stop a top Willis aide from misusing federal funds, the Washington Free Beacon has learned.

The House Judiciary Committee launched an investigation Wednesday into the whistleblower's claims as part of its wider probe into Willis's alleged misuse of federal funds, a spokesman for the committee confirmed. The Free Beacon on Wednesday published audio of the whistleblower, Amanda Timpson, privately informing Willis in November 2021 that she had been demoted after trying to stop Willis aide Michael Cuffee from taking federal grant funds meant for a youth gang prevention initiative to pay for "swag," computers, and travel.

Willis during the secretly recorded meeting did not dispute Timpson's allegations. But less than two months later, in January 2022, Willis abruptly fired the whistleblower and had seven armed investigators escort her out of the office, Timpson says.

Fulton County commissioner Bridget Thorne on Wednesday told the Free Beacon that she too will be looking into Timpson's "concerning" allegations.

Timpson's allegations of financial malfeasance on Willis's watch couldn't have come at a worse time for the embattled Democrat. Willis faces a slew of investigations by local, state, and federal lawmakers into allegations that she also...

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