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Adding to Willis’s challenges, multiple probes into her office’s financial management are underway. Whistleblowers have approached the U.S. House Oversight Committee with allegations that Willis misdirected funds designated for an anti-gang initiative to finance her investigation into Trump, compensating Wade with at least $700,000 over two years. State authorities have also initiated a special committee to investigate the hiring practices concerning Wade and to interrogate other county officials.
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Willis has responded robustly to these investigations. In a letter to Oversight Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) in March, she stated, “We will not shut down this office’s efforts to prosecute crimes — including gang activity, acts of violence, and public corruption — to meet unreasonable deadlines in your politically motivated ‘investigation’ of this office.” The day following the initiation of the Georgia committee’s investigation, Willis sharply criticized the Republican lawmakers, accusing them of attempting to obstruct her legal action against their party leader.
“Isn’t it interesting when we got a bunch of African-American DAs, now we need daddy to tell us what to do,” Willis remarked during a campaign event. “So y’all can go put that in your sound byte for today. But today I am here so I can reach my community and this is really messing up my business.”
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The unfolding drama around Willis also includes a lawsuit from a lawmaker who claims Willis failed to protect her from a stalker, and emerging details that a prosecutor in her office might have deceived a judge in her case against rapper Young Thug, who is connected to a gang member Trump alleged might also have had a romantic link with Willis.
