Fani Willis was forced to pay one legal settlement that left her steaming mad

Fani Willis can’t catch a break these days. 

She found herself with another massive setback. 

And Fani Willis was forced to pay one legal settlement that left her steaming mad. 

Judge orders Fani Willis to pay more than $20,000 in legal fees

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis watched her criminal case against President-elect Donald Trump and his allies collapse because of a conflict of interest scandal after she hired her lover Nathan Wade to work as a special prosecutor. 

Willis is starting the new year with another humiliating legal setback. 

Conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch filed a civil lawsuit against Willis for not complying with an open records request for communications between her office and former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) January 6 Select Committee and Special Counsel Jack Smith’s office. 

She claimed that no such documents existed. 

Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney ruled in December that she violated the Georgia Open Records Act after she didn’t show up to court to defend herself against the lawsuit. 

McBurney called her out for claiming the documents didn’t exist after Judicial Watch had discovered one document between Willis and the January 6 Committee independently. 

“This response was perplexing and eventually suspicious to [Judicial Watch], given that Plaintiff subsequently uncovered through own effort at least one document that should have been in the District Attorney’s Office’s possession that was patently responsive to the request,” Judge McBurney wrote. 

Willis’ office admitted that there are documents related to Judicial Watch’s request, but refused to release claiming they were exempt from the law. 

The judge smacked down Willis once again ordering her to pay $19,360 in attorney fees for the case and another $2,218 in legal expenses.

“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,” Judge McBurney explained. 

Fani Willis has something to hide about her work with January 6 Committee

Willis first claimed she had no communication with the January 6 Committee, then claimed legal privilege to keep from handing them over. 

Judicial Watch filed a motion with the court to have a special master oversee the search for documents from Willis’ office that match the open records request. 

There is something in those documents that the embattled Fulton County District Attorney doesn’t want to see the light of day. 

Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton vowed that his group wouldn’t give up its search for the truth. 

“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,” Fitton said. “But in the end, Judicial Watch wants the full truth on what she was hiding – her office’s political collusion with the Pelosi January 6 committee to ‘get Trump.’”

Fani Willis won’t be able to keep the truth hidden forever about her collusion against Donald Trump.