Yet more bad news has come for Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis. Now, the Georgia State Senator who is heading the investigation into DA Willis’ office has said that, after listening to a whistleblower’s testimony, he thinks that some of her statements are “dubious.” That could spell bad news for the embattled Fulton DA, as the Georgia Senate Special Committee on Investigations that Cowsert heads is investigating her alleged misconduct and misuse of funds.
As background, on Thursday, May 23, the special committee held its fourth hearing on the DA and, during that hearing, heard testimony from Amanda Timpson. Timpson is a whistleblower who, at one point, worked for Willis’ office as the director of juvenile diversion programs. Timpson claims that she was first demoted and then fired after she blew the whistle about the misuse of funds by Willis’ office.
Timpson, as background, alleged that a Willis campaign team member “wanted to do things with grants that were impossible, and I kept telling him, like, ‘We can’t do that.'” In a conversation caught on tape, Timpson told Willis, “He told everybody … ‘We’re going to get MacBooks, we’re going to get swag, we’re going to use it for travel.’ I said, ‘You cannot do that, it’s a very, very specific grant.'” Willis dismissed Timpson’s concerns, and Timpson was later fired.
That’s not all. Timpson also alleges, as she testified when speaking to the special committee, that Nathan Wade was on the D.A.’s staff as far back as 2020. That is a problem for DA Willis, as both she and Wade have testified under oath that their relationship only began when Mr. Wade was hired to work on the case in late 2021.
Cowsert now says that he thinks the timeline testified to by Willis and Wade is “dubious.” Such is what state senator Cowsert said when speaking to Fox News Digitial about the whistleblower testimony. He said, during that interview, “[Wade], for a whole year, was her confidant and collaborator on running the office before he gets hired.”
Continuing, Cowsert said that it is “dubious” that the relationship between DA Willis and Wade began so long after he was hired by her office. He said, “And then she’s acting like it was just something that happened in the summer of 2022. That they began a relationship months after the hiring. That’s a dubious claim, you know?”
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Cowsert is not the only one to cast doubt on the credibility of DA Willis’ claims. Ashleigh Merchant, a lawyer for a co-defendant in the case against former President Trump, testified to the committee that there is data from Wade’s cellphone that indicates he visited a condo Willis was renting multiple times before he was hired, indicating that the relationship between the two began far earlier than they claim.
Merchan, testifying on the matter, said, “It’s pinging from his house all the way down to the condo at midnight 1 a.m. And then he calls her when he gets there. And then it goes silent for four or five hours. And then, you know, early in the morning hours, he starts pinging again, driving back, and then he texts her when he gets home.”