Federal Grand Jury Subpoenas Fani Willis’ Travel Records Amid Widening Scrutiny
Federal prosecutors have subpoenaed the travel records of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, the Atlanta prosecutor who once spearheaded the Georgia election interference case against President Donald Trump, according to a report Friday.
The subpoena, issued by a federal grand jury, seeks records of Willis’ travel during the fall of 2024 — a period overlapping with the presidential election — the New York Times reported. The investigation is being run by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Georgia, headed by Theodore S. Hertzberg.
It remains unclear whether Willis herself is a target of the probe, or whether the inquiry is focused on other potential misconduct tied to her office.
Willis, 53, made national headlines in 2023 when she brought sprawling racketeering charges against Trump and 18 co-defendants, alleging they had conspired to overturn the former president’s narrow 2020 loss in Georgia. But the case soon collapsed around her.
In December 2024, the Georgia Court of Appeals removed Willis from the prosecution, citing an “appearance of impropriety” over her romantic relationship with Nathan Wade, the special prosecutor she had personally hired to lead the Trump case. Just last week, the Georgia Supreme Court declined Willis’ bid to rejoin the prosecution, effectively closing that chapter of her legal pursuit of Trump.
The Willis-Wade affair came to light in January 2024, when Trump co-defendant Michael Roman sought to have charges against him dismissed. Roman’s filings alleged Willis had engaged in an “improper” and “clandestine” relationship with Wade, and that both had personally benefited from taxpayer-funded legal contracts.
Court documents later revealed Wade had filed for divorce from his wife on November 1, 2021 — just one day after Willis hired him to work on the Trump case. Records from Wade’s divorce proceedings showed that he and Willis enjoyed lavish vacations together in 2022 and 2023, including Caribbean cruises, Napa Valley wine country tours, and trips to Miami and Aruba.
During that same period, Wade collected approximately $654,000 in legal fees from the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office for his work on the Trump case, raising concerns of self-dealing and misuse of funds.
The subpoena of Willis’ travel records marks a new and potentially perilous development in her career. It also comes just a day after former FBI Director James Comey was indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of making false statements and obstruction tied to his testimony before Congress in 2020.
The timing has fueled speculation that the Justice Department under President Trump is intensifying efforts to root out corruption tied to the Trump-era investigations that prosecutors have long argued were politically motivated.
Willis’ office declined to provide further details. “We have no knowledge of any investigation,” her spokesman, Jeff DiSantis, told the Times.
For now, the subpoena underscores that Willis, once heralded by Democrats as a crusading prosecutor willing to take on Trump, is instead facing her own federal scrutiny — and with her political and professional fortunes hanging in the balance, the spotlight she once sought is now cutting in the opposite direction.