A Georgia Senate committee that is investigating Fani Willis held a hearing on Friday during which lawmakers scrutinized Willis's use of taxpayer dollars.
The hearing marked the third of the year for the special committee, and it featured witnesses Robb Pitts and Sharon Whitmore, two Fulton County officials who spoke about Willis’s history of requesting county funds.
Nathan Wade, one of the special prosecutors leading the Trump case, a hefty hourly rate that amounted to more than $650,000 in less than two years. While Willis’s scandal with Wade has overshadowed much of her other work, the district attorney has also faced questions,from Congress, about a whistleblower claim about her use of a $488,000 federal grant.
Cowsert also asked about numerous “enhancement requests,” that is, additional funding requests, that Willis has made during her tenure.
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