House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan has subpoenaed documents from the Georgia prosecutor who has charged former Donald Trump and his allies with trying to overturn the 2020 presidential election in the state.

In a letter to Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis on Friday, Jordan cited news reports about a whistleblower in Willis’ office who says she was fired after she raised concerns about the alleged misuse of federal grant funds.

“These allegations raise serious concerns about whether you were appropriately supervising the expenditure of federal grant funding allocated to your office and whether you took actions to conceal your office’s unlawful use of federal funds,” Jordan wrote.

Willis called the allegations "false" and the whistleblower's litigation "baseless," adding she was "a holdover employee from the previous administration who was terminated for cause."

"The courts that have ruled found no merit in these claims," she said in a statement to Spectrum News. "We expect the same result in any pending litigation. Any examination of the records of our grant programs will find that they are highly effective and conducted in cooperation with the Department of Justice and in compliance with all Department of Justice requirements."

Willis did not comment directly about Jordan's subpoena.

Judiciary Committee Republicans launched an investigation into Willis shortly after she announced in August a grand jury had indicted Trump and 18 others in the election case. Republican lawmakers have accused her of pursuing the convictions for political reasons. 

Jordan has written three letters to Willis requesting she voluntarily turn over documents in the case. The DA has declined to cooperate with the investigation and has accused Jordan of trying to interfere with a state criminal prosecution. The requests also raise “serious constitutional concerns regarding federalism and separation of powers,” Willis wrote in one letter.

The Judiciary Committee chair has argued the panel’s inquiries are within its authority because Willis’ office receives some federal funding and because its findings could yield legislative reforms.

Jordan’s latest letter makes no mention of Trump.

In August 2022, Amanda Timpson, a former juvenile diversion programs manager in Willis’ office, filed a whistleblower lawsuit alleging she was wrongfully fired for uncovering misused funds.

The Washington Free Beacon, a conservative outlet, published an audio recording this week of a conversation in which Timpson told Willis that Michael Cuffee, a Willis campaign aide, intended to use part of a $488,000 federal grant, awarded to establish a Center of Youth Empowerment and Gang Prevention, to pay for  “swag,” computers, and travel.

“He wanted to do things with grants that were impossible, and I kept telling him, like, ‘We can’t do that,’” Timpson told Willis in the Nov. 19, 2021, meeting, according to The Free Beacon. “He told everybody … ‘We're going to get MacBooks, we’re going to get swag, we’re going to use it for travel.’ I said, ‘You cannot do that, it’s a very, very specific grant.’”

“I respect that is your assessment,” Willis told Timpson in the recording, according to The Free Beacon.  “And I'm not saying that your assessment is wrong.”

Timpson says that less than two months later she was abruptly fired and escorted from the building.

Willis’ office said in a statement after the lawsuit: “This employee was a holdover from the prior administration. Management attempted to find a role she could fill, but was unsuccessful after transferring within the office three times. All of her supervisors found her performance to be inadequate. Her failure to meet the standards of the new administration led to her termination."

Willis is also under scrutiny after lawyers for one of Trump’s co-defendants, Mike Roman, alleged in a court filing that the DA appointed Nathan Wade to head the case while romantically involved with him and that she have improperly benefited from paying him more than $650,000 in fees.

Willis has not responded publicly to the relationship accusations. However, in a speech at a church last month, she accused her critics of attacking her and Wade because they are Black, although she did not mention Wade by name. She also defended his qualifications for the role.

The judge in the case has scheduled a Feb. 15 evidentiary hearing on the accusations. Roman's lawyers want the indictment dismissed and Willis and Nathan removed from the case.