Judge Orders Fani Willis to Pay $54K for Intentionally Violating Open Record Laws
Her actions “were intentional, not done in good faith, and were substantially groundless and vexatious.”
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis must pay $54,000 for violating Georgia’s Open Records Act.
The $54,000 is for attorney’s fees.
Willis must turn over all documents requested by Ashleigh Merchant, the attorney representing former Trump campaign staffer Michael Roman.
Willis led the charge against President Donald Trump and his team for supposedly trying to rig the 2020 election in her county.
Fulton County Superior Court Judge Rachel Krause ruled that Willis intentionally failed to comply with the record laws. From The Associated Press:
Fulton County Superior Court Judge Rachel Krause found that the failures to comply with the records law “were intentional, not done in good faith, and were substantially groundless and vexatious.” Because Willis and her office “lacked substantial justification” for not complying, Merchant is entitled to attorneys’ fees and litigation expenses totaling just over $54,000, Krause found.
Krause ordered Willis to search for and turn over all records responsive to Merchant’s requests. The documents and payment are to be delivered within 30 days of Friday’s order.
In December, the Court of Appeals of Georgia kicked Willis off the case over her relationship with former special prosecutor Nathan Wade.
“The remedy crafted by the trial court to prevent an ongoing appearance of impropriety did nothing to address the appearance of impropriety that existed at times when DA Willis was exercising her broad pretrial discretion about who to prosecute and what charges to bring,” wrote the court.
Trump and some of his co-defendants argued Willis should be removed due to her relationship with then-Special Prosecutor Nathan Wade, citing a conflict of interest.
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How are any of these cases still going on?
Peanut fine. She’ll use her campaign funds to pay. No deterrent factor.
Or public funds. She has no shame
Peanut?
Oh you must be referring to the Purple Puppet that earns campaign money working for Jeff Dunham.
It’s not a fine, and not meant to be a deterrent. It’s simply compensating the plaintiff for her legal expenses that were caused by Willis’s wilful violation of the law. Any penalty for that violation would have to come in a separate proceeding. Perhaps a bar disciplinary committee.
I don’t agree with you often, but in this instance I do. She should be brought before the bar for disciplinary action. She is already on thin ice having been disqualified as prosecutor in the case against President Trump. Even the Fulton county Commission has been fed up with her antics. Correct me if I’m wrong. The Georgia Supreme Court handles disciplinary actions against DA’s. She has dig a deep enough hole that she could find herself disbarred.
And yet she got 69% of the vote last November.
Like so many other Dems, fat Fani Willis belongs behind bars. It seems like ever rock that is turned over has a crooked Dem under it. Is fat Fani smart enough to understand how much trouble she is in?
The woman put her dress on inside out and backwards, so probably not
Corrupt individuals like Abrams and Willis in GA, James and Bragg in NY, Crockett and Waters in Congress, are really bringing glory to pro-black causes in the U.S., aren’t they?
Poster children for where DEI has gone wrong.
The epitome of local corruption are the Atlanta Democrats.
Except when they collude with the DC Dems and take it to the next level.
SHE isn’t paying a dime.
Her office, meaning the taxpayers, are paying the $54k.
Oh dear. Fani made an ass of herself.
Maybe but Wade knows how to wear a suit. He always looks good.
It doesn’t offset his abysmal taste in women though…
She is a disgrace to the legal profession, and an example of how DEI has lowered the standards of law schools so low that subnormal intelligent and ill-educated people are actually admitted to the Bar.
Because Willis and her office “lacked substantial justification” for not complying, Merchant is entitled to attorneys’ fees and litigation expenses totaling just over $54,000, Krause found.
“Entitled…” but nothing here says he has to pay this fine personally.
“Her office” will simply pay out of public funds.
Why does she still have a law license in GA?
Court orders her to pay money. But it is just money. And some Dem slush fund will just hand more money to her. And they can even do it in a legal way where she reports it as income and pas taxes such that she is completely unharmed by the courts fine. And her life will go on. But the Dem lawfare machine will go on having accomplished their objective of doing harm, wiping away evidence, and Fani, thei raccomplice, will not face anything other than a little nuisance of writing a check and being reimbursed.
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