Fani Willis ordered to pay more than $20,000 to conservative watchdog group

Published January 8, 2025 1:16pm ET



Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis was ordered to pay over $20,000 to a conservative watchdog group.

The order to pay originated from an open records case from the conservative group Judicial Watch. The group asked Willis’s office to provide it with documents pertaining to possible communications with Department of Justice special counsel Jack Smith, who led a separate investigation into Trump’s actions surrounding his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election with the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.

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