Man from California accused of posing a threat to Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis

Man from California accused of posing a threat to Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis
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According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Georgia, a federal grand jury in Atlanta indicted a California man on suspicion of threatening Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis. This announcement was made on Friday.

On Friday, Chula Vista resident Mark Schultz, 66, appeared in court for the first time in California. According to the Department of Justice, he was charged on April 24 and is scheduled to be arraigned in Atlanta in June.

Court documents state that Schultz threatened Willis with violence on multiple occasions in October through comments on YouTube livestream videos, including one in which he said, “will be killed like a dog.”

Additional threats made by Schultz were described in the indictment, including the one that said, “FANI WILLIS WILL BE DEAD IN 2024,” among other racial slurs.

As the head of one of the four main criminal cases against the former president, Willis has accused him of conspiring to overturn the Georgia results of the 2020 presidential election and of felony racketeering. Since her office started looking into Trump, she has received racist threats.

The FBI’s Atlanta field office special agent Keri Farley stated, “Threats of violence against government officials, particularly, threaten the very fabric of our democracy.”

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She referred Republican state senator Bill Cowsert, who is in charge of the investigation into Willis’ office, in a statement issued by the office of Willis.

“The United States Attorney and the FBI stated another indictment of someone who threatened my life on the very same day Senator Bill Cowsert had the audacity to question if an elected African American female District Attorney ought to get protection from death threats,” Willis stated in the statement.

She continued, “I express my gratitude to US Attorney Ryan Buchanan, his team, and the FBI for their unwavering belief in the worth of an African American elected official’s life, as well as for their diligent efforts in guaranteeing the safety of our families, staff, and me.”

Since she began dating Nathan Wade, a special prosecutor her office brought in to assist with the Trump case, Willis has come under intense scrutiny.

Attorneys for Trump and a number of his co-defendants attempted to have Willis removed from the case in January by accusing her of unethically benefiting financially from her relationship with Wade.

Judge Scott McAfee of Fulton County Superior Court decided in March that Willis could carry on with the case’s prosecution, but she and Wade could not collaborate on it. Shortly after McAfee’s ruling, Wade left the case.

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