A House Republican leader said on Thursday that he has been in touch with a whistleblower inside Fani Willis’ office who says she is ready to reveal how the Fulton County, Ga. district attorney allegedly abused federal funds in order to target former President Donald Trump.

Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) joined Fox Business on Thursday, telling host Maria Bartiromo that a woman has come forward to shed light on the House Oversight Committee’s investigation into Willis’ handling of anti-gang funds and whether they were inappropriately redirected to support an allegedly politically motivated trial.

Jordan’s remarks came just one day after the Justice Department revealed “inconsistencies” in the Georgia prosecutor’s reports to the federal government regarding the allocation of their funds.

“God bless the whistleblower [who] came forward,” Jordan said of the now-former employee, according to Newsweek. “We’ve talked with the whistleblower, she’s giving information to the press, to us. Now the Department of Justice is looking into this. All kinds of problems with Fani Willis and this ridiculous investigation she’s run on President Trump and others.”

Earlier this year, Jordan and the Republican-led House Judiciary Committee issued a subpoena to Willis’s office, seeking documents related to her office’s acquisition and utilization of federal funds. Willis has drawn scrutiny from Republicans following her involvement in a case alleging election interference against Trump and 18 co-defendants.

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The presumed Republican presidential nominee faces accusations of conspiring to overturn Joe Biden’s 2020 election victory in Georgia. Trump has entered a plea of not guilty to all charges and has consistently claimed that the case is politically motivated.

“While you have indicated that additional documents may be forthcoming in response to the Committee’s subpoena, the Committee has yet to receive any additional responsive materials in the three weeks since your initial response,” Jordan said in a letter to Willis last month, requesting more information from her office by March 23.

“Accordingly, the Committee expects that you will produce all responsive documents to the subpoena in the categories prioritized by the Committee no later than 12:00 p.m. on March 28, 2024. If you fail to do so, the Committee will consider taking further action, such as the invocation of contempt of Congress proceedings,” the letter continued.

Last month, Willis sent Jordan a letter responding to the subpoena, saying: “As you note in your letter, we have already provided you with substantial information about our programs that are funded via federal grants.”

Willis stated that she previously said her office would be providing information on the subpoena on a “rolling basis” and criticized Jordan’s demands, saying they are “unreasonable and uncustomary and would require this government office to divert resources from our primary purpose of prosecuting crime.”

The Fulton County District Attorney noted in her letter that Jordan’s subpoena would not halt the investigation of Trump.

In a statement to the Washington Free Beacon this week, a spokesperson for the Justice Department told the outlet that during the DOJ’s review of the inquiry on the use of federal funds by Willis’s office, “we have noticed some inconsistencies in what Fulton County has reported to [the Federal Subaward Reporting System] and we are working with them to update their reporting accordingly.”

Earlier this week, a co-defendant in Willis’ election interference case said he’s preparing to take legal action against her over an incident that allegedly took place with his attorney in Maryland.

According to reports, Harrison Floyd alleges that Willis’ office unlawfully recorded a phone conversation with his lawyer in an unrelated criminal case in Maryland.

Floyd alleges that Willis and her office may have violated the Maryland Wiretapping Act, which requires consent from both parties before recording any in-person or telephone communication.

In a video posted to the social networking platform X, Floyd claimed that Willis was targeting him to further a “racist agenda.”

“Deep down she wants to make me pay for what she feels is a betrayal to black culture,” Floyd said in the video clip, going on to say that Willis had made the case against him and his co-defendants “about race.”

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