Fani Willis Said Her Whistleblower Posed a Violent Threat to Her Office. Audio Recordings Tell a Different Story.
7th May 2025
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A big problem arrived in Fulton County district attorney Fani Willis’s email inbox on the afternoon of Nov. 16, 2021.
It was a legal notice from an attorney representing Amanda Timpson, a former member of Willis’s executive staff who had been blowing the whistle on the district attorney’s office for allegedly trying to mishandle federal grant funds. Willis, the eight-page letter stated, had violated a slew of whistleblower protection laws when she reassigned Timpson to serve as a glorified file clerk following a brief meeting in July 2021 in which the district attorney refused to hear Timpson’s allegations. Timpson believed she had grounds for a lawsuit against Willis, but was willing to drop the matter in return for a modest severance package and a positive letter of recommendation from the district attorney.
Willis had other ideas.