Posted on 01/08/2025 1:51:21 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis was ordered to pay over $20,000 to a conservative watchdog group.
The order to pay originated from an open records case from the conservative group Judicial Watch. The group asked Willis’s office to provide it with documents pertaining to possible communications with Department of Justice special counsel Jack Smith, who led a separate investigation into Trump’s actions surrounding his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election with the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.
Earlier this month, Superior Court of Fulton County Judge Robert McBurney ruled that Willis’s office violated Judicial Watch’s open records request by categorizing identifying responsive documents as exempt from the request but previously said none of these documents existed.
“Even if the records prove to be just that — exempt from disclosure for sound public policy reasons — this late revelation is a patent violation of the ORA. And for none of this is there any justification, substantial or otherwise: no one searched until prodded by civil litigation,” he wrote.
McBurney found Willis’s office liable for paying Judicial Watch $19,360 in attorney’s fees related to the group’s efforts in the open records request. Willis was additionally ordered to pay $2,218 in other related legal expenses.
“Fani Willis flouted the law, and the court is right to slam her and require, at a minimum, the payment of nearly $22,000 to Judicial Watch,” Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said in a statement.
In December, McBurney, in a separate order, said because Willis did not provide a timely response to the court, she would have to hand over records of all communications with Smith and the Jan. 6 committee to the group.
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Fine Fani Willia $20,000, fine Rudy Giuliani $148,000,000. That’s “justice” in today’s America.
Just what I was thinking.
They should ask for cash. She says she does everything in cash.
She has ignored every aspect of this process? Will she ignore this as well.
Probably has that much in the sugar bowl.
That’s a drop in the bucket for that bitch. Maybe her squeeze Nate will cough up some of the cash she paid him to screw her.
Fani pays? Or the taxpayers?
The taxpayers should be able to carve that out of Fani’s fanny.
Probably spends that much on manicures annually
Hooves included?
This isn’t coming out of her own pocket. Someone, or several someones, with more money than common sense will gift her the fine.
No hooves and weaves are extra.
The amount is a lie its actually $320K
Just put it on her company credit card.
Fat Fani has to raid her mattress to pay that fine. Before the end of this she will be absolutely disbarred and perhaps end up in prison.
Lol... I laugh, but it’s probably literally true.
At least she will have that stashed at her house. Her daddy told her to do that.
Arrogant black DEI women gets off easy, white man rudy gets the shaft
She hasn’t been ordered to pay anything, her office has which means the taxpayers. Since only about 10% of her constituents actually pay taxes and virtually none of those voted for her this just means that she’s stuck it to them again. That disgusting crook probably laughed herself (more) stupid when she found out.
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