Fulton County, Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis has found herself in another scandal and this time the Georgia State Senate is involved.
Republican State Sen. Bill Cowsert, hammered Fulton County Commissioner Robb Pitts and Fulton County Chief Financial Officer Sharon Whittmore with his concerns and questions about how the Willis’ office receives and spends its funds.
Witnesses who testified before the commission said that the District Attorney has wide discretion on how she hires staff and spends the funds, Fox News reported.
“This is sounding to me kind of like the Wild West, very little control from Fulton County over a $36 million budget,” the senator said after asking several questions.
“You don’t know how much of that is spent on professional services, who is hired, how much they’re paid per hour, what their total compensation is. Yet you’re being asked to provide $36.6 million a year that you know encompasses a number of those types of independent contractors that you know you’re funding with no oversight or control, right?” the senator said to the chief financial officer said.
“Yeah, the board of commissioners has no oversight over the district attorney,” she said to the senator.
The county commissioner said that Willis has discretion over how she spends the funds that she is given from the state and does not have to get approval before hiring a special counsel, like her former lover Nathan Wade, to assist her in her investigations.
“And [the district attorney] doesn’t have to even report back to you how the money was spent or who was hired as an independent contractor and how much they were paid?” the senator said.
“That’s correct,” the county commissioner said.
“The Georgia Senate Special Committee on Investigations convened its third meeting on Friday to probe allegations of potential conflicts of interest and potential misuse of public funds by Willis, who indicted former President Trump on conspiracy charges related to his efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election in Georgia,” Fox News said in its report.
