The Department of Justice has issued a subpoena for records related to the travel history of Fani Willis, the Georgia district attorney who charged President Donald Trump in an election interference case in 2023, a source familiar with the Department of Justice’s actions confirmed to NBC News.
The New York Times was first to report the story.
The scope of the investigation is not yet clear, and it is not clear whether Willis is the target of the inquiry or whether she will ultimately face charges.
The development comes as Trump in recent weeks has publicly pressed Justice Department officials to investigate or charge his political foes, including former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James.
A grand jury indicted Trump and 18 allies in Georgia in 2023 over their efforts to overturn his 2020 presidential election loss in the state. Willis, the district attorney of Fulton County, brought the case against the then-former president, accusing Trump and his allies of orchestrating a “criminal enterprise” to keep him in power.
The case stalled when attorneys for Trump and several other defendants asked for Willis to be removed from the case due to a personal romantic relationship she had with a special prosecutor, Nathan Wade, whom she’d hired to work on the case.
At first, Willis was allowed to remain on the case if she or Wade did not continue to work on it together. Wade resigned from the case shortly afterward.
But in December, an appeals court ruled to disqualify Willis from the case, saying that the trial court “erred by failing to disqualify DA Willis and her office.”
Earlier this month, Georgia’s Supreme Court declined to review Willis’ appeal to be reinstated to the case, The Associated Press reported.
The case was one of four criminal cases filed against Trump after his first term. Only one went to trial, in New York, before he was elected president again.
In the New York case, Trump was found guilty on 34 counts of falsifying business records related to hush money payments that his former lawyer Michael Cohen made to adult film start Stormy Daniels in 2016.
