A Georgia Senate committee investigating Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis held a hearing on Friday during which lawmakers scrutinized Willis’s use of taxpayer dollars.
The hearing marked the third of the year for the special committee, and it featured witnesses Robb Pitts and Sharon Whitmore, two Fulton County officials who spoke about Willis’s history of requesting county funds.
The hearing was a largely mellow event that dragged on for more than four hours, but it signaled state lawmakers were determined to understand the minutiae behind the process of funding the district attorney’s office while Willis is leading a prosecution against former President Donald Trump.
“This is really messing up my business,” Willis told a local outlet while the hearing was taking place. “They can look all they want. The DA’s office has done everything according to the…
