Justice Department Uncovers ‘Inconsistencies’ in Fani Willis’s Use of Federal Grant Funds

Washington Free Beacon learned that the Justice Department of President Joe Biden has found “inconsistencies in Fani Willis’s use” of federal grant moneys.

This shocking discovery came two years after Willis terminated a whistleblower, who warned her that her office had been misusing a federal grant of $488,000 to pay for “swag”, computers and travel. The Office of Justice Programs at the Justice Department now claims that Willis’s Office has made numerous errors in reporting the grant. These errors were only revealed to the Free Beacon by federal authorities after they provided contradictory statements about awards Willis may have received under the grant.

A Justice Department spokesperson told The Free Beacon that, “We have found some inconsistencies with the information Fulton County provided to the Federal Subaward Reporting System” and are working to correct them.

The Justice Department has not provided any additional details about the “inconsistencies’ Willis reported in his reporting of the $488,00 federal grant that was intended for the creation of the Center for Youth Empowerment and Gang Prevention of Atlanta. The grant expired in September 2023 but the center was never opened.

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Justice Department and Willis’s office are working together to correct “inconsistencies” in grant reporting, as part of an ongoing investigation by the House Judiciary Committee into Willis’s use federal grant funds. Jim Jordan, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, subpoenaed Willis for records relating to the $488,000 grant and whistleblower claims made by Amanda Timpson. She was listed as grant director before the district attorney fired her abruptly in January 2022.

Jordan threatened Willis with contempt on March 14, after the district prosecutor responded to his subpoena by submitting a “short set of documents” which had nothing to do Timpson’s whistleblower claims. Willis responded by writing that Jordan’s requests were “unreasonable” and “uncustomary”, and suggested Jordan was trying to derail Timpson’s election interference case against Donald Trump.

The Free Beacon’s questions, which led to the Justice Department discovering Willis’s “inconsistencies”, centered around subaward payments that the district attorney might have made to Offender Alumni Association (OAA), an Alabama charity run by former prisoners.

Who asks will determine whether or not the Offender’s Alumni Association has received any payments from the federal grant.

Records from Fulton County show that Willis transferred $88,900 of the federal grant for gang prevention to the Offenders Alumni Association. Toni Barnett told the Free Beacon, however, that she did not know why Fulton County reported making payments to the Offender Alumni Association in 2022 or 2023.

Barnett said to the Free Beacon in March that he had no idea from where this information was coming. I have no idea what you are calling about or where you got that information. You should go to the government resource to validate what you are saying or printing. I don’t understand what you are saying.”

Deborah Daniels, co-founder of the Offender Alumni Association and Dena Dickerson, chief operating officer, did not respond to several requests for comments.

A Justice Department spokesperson told the Free Beacon on March 27 that the federal authorities did not have any records of subgrants paid by Willis’ office to the Offenders Alumni Association.

The spokeswoman for the Free Beacon said that the Offender Alumni Association was not listed as subgrantee in the grant awarded, Gang Prevention in Fulton County. This award is valued at $488.594. “Therefore, the questions about the organization as subgrantee do not apply.”

The Justice Department has changed its tune since the Free Beacon told it that Fulton County records show $89,900 as subpayments made to the Offender Association.

A Justice Department spokesperson told the Free Beacon in April that, “after further research, it was discovered that Offender Alumni is listed as a Fulton County Subgrantee” in later documents. “We apologize for the initial error.”

The Justice Department refused copies of “subsequent documentation” that showed Willis’s Office made subgrants payments to the Offenders Alumni Association or the date on which Willis’s Office reported the payments to federal officials.

Willis’s Office did not respond to a comment request.

Willis’ “inconsistencies,” regarding her use of federal grant money, were discovered only weeks after a court ruled that the district attorney embattled could continue to work on Trump’s election interference case. The legal team of the former president petitioned for Willis to be removed from the case because she was having an affair with Nathan Wade. She had paid him $650,000 to prosecute former President Trump while they were in a clandestine relationship.

Scott McAfee, a Fulton County Superior Court Judge, stated in an order dated March 15, that there was still a “smell of mendacity” following weeks of public hearings about Willis’s affair with Wade. Willis was allowed to remain on the case as long as she terminated Wade. The legal team of Donald Trump is trying to appeal the Georgia Court of Appeals ruling.

Willis is now known as the “face” of the feminist movement after being given the go-ahead to continue her fight against Trump.

Willis stated in an interview with CNN that she didn’t know how to be the face of feminist movements. “I think women feel that they are treated differently if they’re professional and they’re proud of someone who is strong and trying the do the right thing.”