Authored by Luis Cornelio via Headline USA,
The DOJ under the Biden administration “invited” disgraced Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to apply for a generous taxpayer-funded grant as she prosecuted President Donald Trump.
The arrangement came to light after Willis referenced the grant in December 2022 correspondence with DOJ Senior Advisor Scott Pestridge of the Office of Justice Programs.
The document was first revealed on Thursday by Just the News through open records requests filed by the outlet and nonprofit America First Legal.
According to Just the News, Willis referenced the Office of Justice Programs’ Community-Based Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative grant, which ultimately awarded her office $2 million.
The timing of the award coincided with her office’s aggressive prosecution of Trump, who at the time was running for president against then-President Joe Biden.
“I want to document your recognition of our progress and services provided with dynamic partners, as we complete sole source steps for our new grant award, a grant in which you invited us to apply,” Willis wrote to Pestridge, according to Just the News.
Willis described the award as a “sole source” grant, indicating her office faced no competing applicants.
The $2 million award was part of roughly $18 million the Biden DOJ provided to Willis’s office between 2021 and 2024.
She claimed the funds would help “at-risk” youth avoid falling into crime or assist with reintegration into society, according to Just the News.
Documents released by Willis’s office in response to open records requests show her office maintained consistent coordination with the DOJ after Trump left office in 2021, when she became one of several left-leaning prosecutors pursuing cases against him.
She later charged Trump under Georgia’s RICO statute, accusing him of attempting to subvert the 2020 election results in the state.
Her case ultimately unraveled after it was revealed that she had engaged in an affair with Nathan Wade, the special prosecutor she selected to lead the prosecution.
Willis took vacations with Wade while her office paid him, later claiming she reimbursed him in cash, though she never produced receipts to substantiate those payments.
Both Wade and Willis were ultimately disqualified from leading the case. After Trump returned to office in 2025, the prosecution was effectively nullified.
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