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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5
GREATER GEORGIA ANNOUNCES SIX-FIGURE CAMPAIGN
TO EXPOSE FAILURES OF FULTON COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY
FANI WILLIS
ATLANTA – Today, Greater Georgia announced a six-figure campaign to expose the costly failures of District Attorney Fani Willis that continue to impact Fulton County residents. The campaign includes digital ads and text messages, reaching Atlanta-area voters ahead of the Fulton County District Attorney election on November 5th. The awareness effort launched today with a video ad entitled “Failed,” which is running on streaming and programmatic media including Fox News, CNN, WSB TV, Hulu, Roku, and Fubo. Click HERE or on the image below to watch the ad.
“Fani Willis had one job when voters put their trust in her in 2020: prosecute violent career criminals in order to protect the residents of Fulton County. Instead, she’s spent the last four years chasing vanity cases to grow her celebrity, line her pockets, and fuel her political ambitions,” said Greater Georgia Chairwoman and Former U.S. Senator Kelly Loeffler. “On her watch, prosecutions are down, crime is up, and more citizens have been needlessly victimized – then denied justice because she is too distracted or too incompetent to deliver it. Willis’ conduct is an embarrassment to the state of Georgia and a profound threat to public safety. She must be ousted this November to restore law and order in Fulton County – and end the era of partisan, personal, taxpayer-funded distractions.”
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The Greater Georgia campaign will highlight three significant categories of failures of Willis’ tenure as D.A. including:
Presiding over rising crime rates, failure to prosecute criminals, and dozens of inmate deaths.
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13,787 people were arrested for felonies in 2023 but never indicted. At the end of 2023, the Fulton County D.A. still had a backlog of 11,700 unindicted cases. (Atlanta News First, June 12, 2024; Atlanta News First, October 30, 2023)
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36% of the Fulton County Jail population, or over 900 inmates, are being held without indictment as of the latest publicly available data. (Fulton County Government Project ORCA, January 24, 2024)
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About 30 inmates have died in the Fulton County Jail since 2021 – some of whom died waiting for indictments from the D.A.’s office. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution, December 7, 2023)
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Of the felons that have been indicted, many have gone on to commit more crimes while awaiting trial. (Atlanta News First, June 12, 2024)
Wasting taxpayer funds and profiting off prosecutions.
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In 2021, Fani Willis was accused of misappropriating $488,000 in grant funds from the U.S. Department of Justice and was later subpoenaed over the allegations by the U.S. House Judiciary Committee. (United States House of Representatives, February 2, 2024)
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Separately, members of the U.S. Senate launched an investigation into Fani Willis, this time related to accusations that she misused $2,000,000 in U.S Department of Justice funds earmarked for clearing sexual assault cases. (United States Senate, May 15, 2024)
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Fani Willis also hired her love interest, Nathan Wade, as the lead special prosecutor in the Donald Trump election interference case. From 2021 to 2023, she paid Wade $654,000 – more than any other special prosecutor on the case, even though he had never prosecuted a felony before. (11 Alive News, January 16, 2024)
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It was later revealed that Wade and Willis used those profits to take lavish vacations together during the Trump proceedings, including to Napa Valley, Miami, and on a Royal Caribbean Cruise. (New York Post, January 19, 2024)
Pursuing personal ambition over public safety to advance her political career and celebrity.
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Fani Willis is a proud Democrat. In 2022, she was even admonished by a judge for raising money to defeat a Republican political candidate she was simultaneously seeking to indict. (CNN, July 21, 2022)
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Accordingly, during the early stages of her case against President Trump, her office requested help from the January 6 Committee and held meetings with the White House. (Politico, January 10, 2024; Fox News, January 9, 2024)
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Even after her affair and personal profiteering scheme were uncovered in the case, and numerous motions were filed for her removal, she vowed: “nothing…will derail the efforts of my staff and I to bring the election interference prosecution to trial” to convict President Trump. (ABC News, March 27, 2024)
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In March 2024, a judge ordered either Fani Willis or Nathan Wade to resign from the Trump case. Wade stepped aside – but the court still condemned Willis for “a significant appearance of impropriety” and a lingering “odor of mendacity.” (Wall Street Journal, March 15, 2024)
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Meanwhile, her other major case against Young Thug and YSL - which has been described as a “legacy building case” - has now dragged on for over two years. It is the longest-running criminal trial in Georgia history. (NBC News, August 12, 2024)
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Like the Trump case, the YSL case has diverted tremendous time and resources from the public safety responsibilities of Fani Willis’ office – due largely to her bungled prosecution. Most recently, her office held a secret and illegal ex parte meeting with the trial judge, who was then forced to step down from the case. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution, July 20, 2024)
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Greater Georgia, launched by former U.S. Senator Kelly Loeffler in 2021, is a 501(c4) nonpartisan nonprofit dedicated to growing participation in the democratic process by mobilizing and empowering voters. The group works year-round to educate and register voters, engage with diverse and underrepresented communities, and protect election integrity.
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