
Fulton County DA Fani Willis Is the Subject of an Ethics Complaint Over Campaign Finances
The Georgia State Ethics Commission has notified Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis of a complaint filed against her alleging that she violated the Georgia Government Transparency and Finance Act. The complaint was submitted last month by computer analyst Peter Bernegger, president of Election Watch, a grassroots national election integrity watchdog group. Among other things, the complaint alleges that the Willis for DA committee was and continues to be the beneficiary of a campaign finance scam called “smurfing.” Smurfing is a fund-transfer mechanism by which big money donors contribute large sums to a PAC or donation processing organization, that, in turn, breaks down their legal, large-sum donations into hundreds and even thousands of small contributions and distributes them among favored political campaigns or ballot initiatives around the country....
