Posted on 02/02/2024 7:46:55 AM PST by bitt
The House Judiciary Committee subpoenaed unscrupulous Fulton County Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis to turn over documents from her office following the recent reports of her corrupt activities as Fulton County DA.
Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan tweeted this out on Thursday.
Did Fani Willis misuse federal grant money for personal benefit?
Did she misuse Georgia taxpayer money for personal benefit?
Why aren’t Democrats asking these questions?
— Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) February 1, 2024
On Friday Jordan slapped a subpoena on Willis for failing to comply with document requests related to allegations that Willis fired a whistleblower who tried to stop a top campaign aide from misusing federal funds.
Willis’s office has reportedly condemned the request.
NBC News reported:
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan has subpoenaed District Attorney Fani Willis of Fulton County, Georgia, demanding documents from her office following allegations that Willis fired a whistleblower who tried to stop a top campaign aide from misusing federal funds.
The subpoena, obtained by NBC News, is part of a broader probe by Jordan, R-Ohio, and House Republicans into whether Willis used federal funds in conducting her more-than-two-year investigation into former President Donald Trump, who was indicted in Fulton County last year on charges that he attempted to overturn Georgia’s 2020 presidential election results. Trump has pleaded not guilty.
In a letter Friday, Jordan says Willis has failed to comply with two earlier requests for documents related to her office’s use of federal grant money. The subpoena calls on the district attorney’s office to provide documents and communications “referring or relating to the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office’s receipt and use of federal funds” and “referring or relating to any allegations of the misuse of federal funds.”
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Will she even bother to show up?
If she doesn’t show up will they give a criminal referral to the DOJ?
If they get a criminal referral will they act upon it?
If they act upon it will they arrest her?
Enquiring minds want to know.......................
“If she doesn’t show up will they give a criminal referral to the DOJ.”
This is a State matter. The DOJ has no jurisdiction.
L
The House Judiciary Committee ...........................
Posturing
It’s time to end this “referral for prosecution” fantasy. The House has plenary power to compel testimony all on its own. They can arrest and detain anyone refusing to comply.
No DOJ involvement is necessary. And Jordan knows this.
So ask yourself why he’s not using it.
L
Federal funds are involved so she has to comply by sending the documents.
Potential misuse of federal grant money is involved. There is an audio recording of an Atlanta DA staffer telling Fani that her boss wanted to misuse federal funds.
Bad optics..........................
I like the optics of Hunter Biden in cuffs being dragged into the House just fine. Same with Fani.
L
Me too, but it won’t happen in this universe.
That power hasn’t been used in decades and decades.
She will probably ignore the subpoena and claim racist Republicans be dissin’ her and her main squeeze..................
It’s just miraculous that Wade can still perform, er, ah....
I mean practice law......after all he’s been through.
After they get jailed for laundering federal tax dollars,
Willis and Wade need to be charged as “Public Nuisances.”
Courts look broadly to evaluate whether an action by a party constitutes a nuisance, including whether the action unreasonably interferes with the morals, health, safety, and comfort of the affected parties (in this case taxpayers).
A public nuisance created in a public place or on public land,by public officials, affecting morals, safety, or health, and is considered an offense against the state. For example, operating a house of prostitution is a public nuisance.
Most public nuisances must be brought by government officials (elected officials) on behalf of the public.
Private citizens can bring a class action to enjoin the nuisance in some cases. A private individual can also bring a case on their own, but they must suffer a greater or different nuisance than the rest of the public.
REFERENCE-——nuisances.usalegal.gov
A public nuisance is a crime against the order and the economy of a state. The following is an example of a state statute explaining places and persons constituting the offense of public nuisance, for which a criminal prosecution can be initiated.
1. Every place: wherein any fighting between people or animals or birds shall be conducted; or
wherein any intoxicating liquors are kept for unlawful use, sale or distribution; where vagrants resort;
2. Every act unlawfully done and every omission to perform a duty, which act or omission that: annoy, injure or endanger the safety, health, comfort, or repose of any considerable number of persons; offend public decency; unlawfully interfere with, befoul, obstruct, or tend to obstruct, or render an area dangerous for passage, or in any way render a considerable number of persons insecure in life or the use of property.
3. Acts of public indecency, such as lewdness, exhibiting obscene pictures, being naked in a public place, prostitution, publication of an indecent book, all are indictable and punishable at common law because they outrage public decency and are injurious.
All common and public nuisances, which aggrieve, annoy, or impair the common good and the rights of the community must be punished criminally by indictment.
Counties, municipalities, and other governing bodies in the prosecution of governmental functions are liable for damages resulting from the operation and maintenance of nuisances.
In an action for a public nuisance, any evidence that tends to prove the defendant’s guilt of the offense charged is admissible. One need not have a criminal intent to make her/him guilty of committing a nuisance.
In an attempt to escape liability, a defendant can argue that a particular legislation authorizes his/her activity. However, but legislative authority will not excuse a defendant from liability when the conduct is unreasonable.
A defendant cannot escape liability by arguing that others also contributed to the harm.
When a state does not prescribe punishment for a particular nuisance, the punishment is the one prescribed by statute for common-law offenses. Additionally, a person convicted for maintaining a nuisance of a continuing character is generally ordered to abate the nuisance together with a fine and imprisonment.
He suffers from ED.
Extreme Dumbassery................
LOL.......that is funny.
She’s taking a cue from Hunter Biden. Just ignore everything and get away with it. Seems to work just fine.
Are they going to exonerate her? Probably.
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