Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis' office agreed to pay $10,000 on a service to monitor her media coverage just days before announcing the probe into former President Donald Trump, according to invoices and emails obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation.
"We are getting more coverage via your name than by title," said what appears to be a Fulton County employee in a Feb. 2021 email, referencing Willis.
"Fundamental fairness is at the heart of constitutional due process and if this case was not brought and maintained in the spirit of fundamental fairness, then it should be dismissed and the rest of the chips can fall where they may." When renegotiating the contract in Feb. 2023, Deputy District Attorney for the Media Relations Division Jeff DiSantis mentioned to a company representative that he has had to "Push the county hard to pay for this." "We paid for a whole year last year but the service was turned off for several months," he wrote.
"I understand if you can't give us credit for that, but I have to push the county hard to pay for this, and I don't think they will renew it without that credit." A company representative told DiSantis later that day that they had "Received payment for the 2022 renewal on 9/12/22, and the due date was 3/31/22." Earlier emails show the company reached out multiple times in 2021 to warn about past due invoices, telling Willis in a May 12, 2021 email that her account was "In danger of suspension." "I have been informed by Ms. Goff my purchasing manager that there is paperwork that needs to be filled out to be paid by the county," Willis said in a reply to the company representative.
"Until your company jumps through the county hoops it is impossible to pay you." County data shows Critical Mention was paid once, on May 28, 2021, for $10,000.
The county has paid $12,600 to TVEyes Inc since Sept. 2021 for the Sheriff's Office and External Affairs, per county data.
Wade has made nearly $654,000 from the county since 2022, per county data.
https://dailycaller.com/2024/01/23/fani-willis-media-coverage-contract-trump-probe/
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