Fani Willis Axed Employee Who Blew Whistle
on Misuse of Federal Funds
Washington Free Beacon,
by
Andrew Kerr
Original Article
Posted By: Beardo,
1/31/2024 2:15:03 PM
Fani Willis may have fired the employee who warned her about mishandling federal funds. But she didn't deny her allegations.
Less than a year into her tenure as Fulton County district attorney, in 2021, Willis met with Amanda Timpson, an employee in the district attorney's office responsible for giving nonviolent juvenile offenders "alternatives to the juvenile court system." During their conversation, a recording of which was reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon, Timpson claimed to Willis that she had been demoted after attempting to stop a top Willis campaign aide from misusing federal grant money meant for a youth gang prevention initiative.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Beardo 1/31/2024 2:16:31 PM (No. 1648324)
FTA:
According to Timpson, the aide, Michael Cuffee, planned to use part of a $488,000 federal grant—earmarked for the creation of a Center of Youth Empowerment and Gang Prevention—to pay for "swag," computers, and travel.
"He wanted to do things with grants that were impossible, and I kept telling him, like, 'We can't do that,'" Timpson told Willis in a Nov. 19, 2021, meeting. "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.'"
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 1/31/2024 2:46:01 PM (No. 1648346)
A "youth gang prevention initiative"?
Another incredibly fatuous excuse - - to steal money from hard-working taxpayers. Unbelievable!
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
singermom9 1/31/2024 2:58:00 PM (No. 1648349)
Whistleblower should sue.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 1/31/2024 3:54:57 PM (No. 1648388)
The editors of the O.E.D. are reassessing the basic definition of the adjective, uppity.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Ogden Pod 1/31/2024 4:44:32 PM (No. 1648408)
How may computers does this office need? I Believe there should be an audit of grant spending and an audit and physical location of the computer equipment in the Willis office.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
proactus 1/31/2024 5:07:56 PM (No. 1648411)
What did Fani axe her?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Georgia Peach 1/31/2024 6:26:01 PM (No. 1648440)
And the center for this was never built. Where did my money go?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Georgia Peach 1/31/2024 6:28:55 PM (No. 1648441)
Mr Cuffee is on Facebook...quite a lot of titles does he have..
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Fireboy 1/31/2024 7:44:14 PM (No. 1648488)
I’m starting to get the impression that black leaders ain’t all that interested in helping out black yutes, espec if a womyn is in charge of the $$. List is long(Patrise Cullors, Monica Cannon-Grant, Fani Willis, Catherine Pugh).
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
DaBigGuy 1/31/2024 10:26:40 PM (No. 1648530)
Fani's next canard will be that in her sermon at AME, she was reading from the Book of Ax.
This corrupt idiot still hasn't realized that her 15 minutes are up. Minutes 16 and up will not be pretty. It serves her right.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Trigger2 1/31/2024 11:11:03 PM (No. 1648544)
Now she's getting rid of naysayers who torpedoed her fancy dancy lawsuit.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
mifla 2/1/2024 5:46:37 AM (No. 1648602)
Hey Fani, now you know how Trump feels.
Save your money - if all your victims sue you, the legal costs will be substantial.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Strike3 2/1/2024 8:03:43 AM (No. 1648656)
So Fat Fani not only stole money from the taxpayers of Georgia, she stole it from the rest of us as well. I hope this putrid woman goes down hard. Don't get near her when she hits the ground, the aftershock could hurt you.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
homefry 2/1/2024 8:06:18 AM (No. 1648658)
So she axed them who blew the whistle on her?
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 2/1/2024 8:58:59 AM (No. 1648705)
So much for "Inclusivity" in her office! /s
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 2/1/2024 9:18:53 AM (No. 1648723)
Atlanta is just a Petri dish of what's wrong in African countries. Given positions of authority without accountability, they become horribly corrupt then, when they can't afford to pay their soldiers, a military junta occurs, ending up with a military dictator with the likes Mugabe, or Amin, who brutalize opposition while pilfering the treasury and bankrupting the nation.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Zigrid 2/1/2024 10:24:50 AM (No. 1648779)
So now WE find out just how corrupt fani is....she needs to be indicted....and perhaps some jail time in her disgusting jails....what goes around...comes around...my mama always said...look out fans...it's coming around!!
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