The commissioner who wants to strike Fani Willis' budget recently lost thousands of taxpayer dollars in court

The Fulton County commissioner who wants to increase District Attorney Fani Willis' budget by more than $9 million recently cost taxpayers thousands by losing a sex-discrimination lawsuit brought by her former chief of staff.

A judge ruled earlier this month that Commissioner Natalie Hall sexually discriminated against her former chief of staff Calvin Brock, and ordered the county to provide Brock with back pay beginning in September 2020 with interest, along with attorneys' fees and $65,000 in damages, Fox 5 Atlanta. reported on January 12. Hall is proposing to add $9.7 million to the DA's budget, the Daily Caller News Foundation reported Monday.

Brock presented his complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, alleging that Hall wrongfully fired him from the $125,000-a-year position because he ended their relationship, according to Fox 5 Atlanta. The commissioners voted to censure Hall over the situation in September, according to the outlet.

“Having sex with a subordinate is a lapse in judgment because now you've put the body and the taxpayers at risk,” Commissioner Khadijah Abdur-Rahman said at the time, according to Fox 5 Atlanta.

Hall's budget proposal for the district attorney's office includes adding $2.2 million in funding for employees working on a project to clean up the backlog of COVID-19 cases, $1.84 million dollars for “10 lawyers”, $732,792 for “7 researchers”, $542,868 for a paid internship program. and $4.4 million for “operating funds.”

Fani Willis' office agreed to pay a service $10,000 to monitor its media coverage just days before announcing the investigation into former President Donald Trump, according to invoices and emails obtained by the @DailyCaller News Foundation.🧵https://t.co/U7an4Mx7l7

— Katelynn Richardson (@katesrichardson) January 23, 2024

Commissioner Marvin Arrington also wants to add the $9.7 to Willis' budget, while Commissioner Dana Barrett is proposing to add more than $4 million, Commissioner Bridget Thorne told the DCNF on Monday. Commissioners are meeting Wednesday to review the county's 2024 budget.

Budget proposal for the 2024 financial year includes $36.6 million for the district attorney's office as of Jan. 10.

Willis was accused in a movement filed by Michael Roman, a co-accused in the racketeering case against former President Donald Trump, of awarding a “lucrative” contract to his alleged romantic partner, Nathan Wade, and profiting from it when he took her on vacation with the money he earned. from his position.

Wade's bank statements show he bought plane tickets to Miami and San Francisco on Willis' behalf, seconds at a Friday court appearance by Wade's wife in her divorce case.

Hall did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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