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ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) - Fulton County District Attorney Fani
Willis was defiant Friday morning ahead of a Georgia Senate panel
reconvening to investigate her hiring of a special prosecutor - with whom
she had an admitted relationship - to assist in her investigation of
former President Donald Trump.

“Isn’t it interesting when we got a bunch of African-American DAs, now we
need daddy to tell us what to do,” Willis said at a community event at K&K
Soul Food on Donald Lee Hollowell Parkway. “So y’all can go put that in
your sound bite for today, but today I am here so I can reach my
community, and this is really messing up my business.”

A state senate committee reconvened and continued hearing testimony about Willis’ hiring of now-former special prosecutor Nathan Wade and the timing
of when their relationship turned romantic. The committee is also looking
into allegations that Willis misused state and federal funds.

The panel questioned Fulton County Commission Chairman Robb Pitts and
county CFO Sharon Whitmore Friday about whether they signed off on Willis hiring Wade.

Pitts told the committee that while the county commission allocates
funding to each of their departments, including the district attorney’s,
they have little say over how the money is eventually spent. District
attorneys - like sheriffs - are elected constitutional officers who, by
law, have complete autonomy over their budgets.

On Friday, some state senators suggested that may need to change, and
Pitts, a Democrat, seemed to agree.

“Do I believe that we have proper oversight of county constitutional
officers and state constitutional officers?” Pitts responded to a question after his testimony. “I, as Chairman Robb Pitts, I do not. Because I
believe that we should, after we appropriate money to them, I think we
have an obligation, a fiduciary responsibility, to the taxpaying citizens
of the county to know how that money is being spent.”

https://www.atlantanewsfirst.com/2024/05/03/senate-committee-reconvenes- friday-investigate-fulton-county-da-fani-willis/

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