“The special prosecutor that Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis is accused of having an ‘improper’ relationship with billed the Fulton County DA’s office $4,000 for two eight-hour meetings with White House officials while overseeing the election interference case against former President Donald Trump,” the New York Post reports.
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