Posted on 02/03/2024 12:03:11 PM PST by Libloather
**SNIP**
In a filing from Friday, Willis acknowledged the past relationship with Wade, but denied that it presented any conflict of interest on her part, writing that "any personal relationship among members of the prosecution team does not amount to a disqualifying conflict of interest or otherwise harm a criminal defendant."
"Defendants have done nothing to establish an actual conflict of interest, nor have they shown that, in the handling of the case, District Attorney Willis or Special Prosecutor Wade have acted out of any personal or financial motivation," the filing reads, later adding that, "District Attorney Willis has no financial conflict of interest that constitutes a legal basis for disqualification."
During a Friday appearance on MSNBC's All In with Chris Hayes, Litman, who previously served as a U.S. attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania and deputy assistant attorney general at the Department of Justice (DOJ) during the Clinton administration, discussed recent developments in Trump's various criminal trials.
During the discussion, Litman touched on the situation with Willis, stating that while he believes her relationship with Wade did not present any conflict, there is still now "blood in the water" surrounding the case.
"It's 100 percent true under Georgia law, she needed to do it. The law of these kinds of scandals is to get it all out early," he explained. "The thing is, by now, there's sort of blood in the water. You have one of these phoney baloney special investigative commissions in Georgia, none other than [House Judiciary Chair] Jim Jordan subpoenaed her today. [Judge Scott] McAfee's going to have a hearing on the 15th and oddly, even before this, he styled it an 'evidentiary hearing.' So what sort of evidence is it going to take? It could be a bit of a circus."
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Well now she and her boyfriend are material witnesses in the Georgia case so defacto they can’t be prosecutors of it.
$322,500 per year! If I worked in her office I would walk around the office asking in a raised voice “Who do I need to sleep with to get a pay raise?”.
I can hear Little Orphan Fani now: I have examined all the evidence in my relationship with my pool toy, and find myself innocent of impropriety. The ABA doesn’t know what they are talking about. Aaaand, who’s gonna pay for all my blue dresses to get the stains out?
Which says nothing we didn't already know about the ethics standards of the Clinton administration and what was expected of candidates for high administration positions.
Her fani should be in jail.
Willis grossly overpaid Wade, who had never performed a RICO prosecution, in one of the biggest RICO cases ever in GA. Maybe the biggest.
Then, having overpaid him, vacationed with him, thus directly benefiting from the overpayment.
This is illegal, plain and simple.
Also, a motivation for the prosecution might have been to provide her boyfriend with a lucrative gig. It’s at least possible.
-PJ
Any personal relationship among members of the prosecution team does not amount to a disqualifying.
When she dipped her paws into federal funds for the spree it’s a guilty trip.
Well said.
As Otis Redding wrote and sang (and I prefer the Buddy Miles cover version):
Wholesale Love
The way you used to call my name
You make it sound sweet and plain
The way you kiss and hold me so
Make me love you more and more, yeah
Yeah, with that wholesale love all right
The way you look at me and smile
You bring the tears from my eyes
The way you kiss and touch my lips
You make heart go flippity flip, yeah
Yeah, with that wholesale love, all right
I got some wholesale love, girl
Some good old wholesale love, girl
Some lovely wholesale love, girl
Come on now
Willis and Wade need to be charged as “Public Nuisances.”
Courts look broadly to evaluate whether an action by a party constitutes a nuisance, including whether the action unreasonably interferes with the morals, health, safety, and comfort of the affected parties (in this case taxpayers).
A public nuisance created in a public place or on public land,by public officials, affecting morals, safety, or health, and is considered an offense against the state. For example, operating a house of prostitution is a public nuisance.
Most public nuisances must be brought by government officials (elected officials) on behalf of the public.
Private citizens can bring a class action to enjoin the nuisance in some cases. A private individual can also bring a case on their own, but they must suffer a greater or different nuisance than the rest of the public.
REFERENCE-——nuisances.usalegal.gov
A public nuisance is a crime against the order and the economy of a state. The following is an example of a state statute explaining places and persons constituting the offense of public nuisance, for which a criminal prosecution can be initiated.
1. Every place: wherein any fighting between people or animals or birds shall be conducted; or
wherein any intoxicating liquors are kept for unlawful use, sale or distribution; where vagrants resort;
2. Every act unlawfully done and every omission to perform a duty, which act or omission that: annoy, injure or endanger the safety, health, comfort, or repose of any considerable number of persons; offend public decency; unlawfully interfere with, befoul, obstruct, or tend to obstruct, or render an area dangerous for passage, or in any way render a considerable number of persons insecure in life or the use of property.
3. Acts of public indecency, such as lewdness, exhibiting obscene pictures, being naked in a public place, prostitution, publication of an indecent book, all are indictable and punishable at common law because they outrage public decency and are injurious.
All common and public nuisances, which aggrieve, annoy, or impair the common good and the rights of the community must be punished criminally by indictment.
Counties, municipalities, and other governing bodies in the prosecution of governmental functions are liable for damages resulting from the operation and maintenance of nuisances.
In an action for a public nuisance, any evidence that tends to prove the defendant’s guilt of the offense charged is admissible. One need not have a criminal intent to make her/him guilty of committing a nuisance.
In an attempt to escape liability, a defendant can argue that a particular legislation authorizes his/her activity. However, but legislative authority will not excuse a defendant from liability when the conduct is unreasonable.
A defendant cannot escape liability by arguing that others also contributed to the harm.
When a state does not prescribe punishment for a particular nuisance, the punishment is the one prescribed by statute for common-law offenses. Additionally, a person convicted for maintaining a nuisance of a continuing character is generally ordered to abate the nuisance together with a fine and imprisonment.
This is not a simple “affair among legal team members” as Fani whines. It’s affair between boss and subordinate, where the subordinate is paid more than the boss, from TAXPAYER’S funds, and then the boss receives significant tax free gifts from the subordinate. Bye Bye to Fani’s fanny.
Which makes sense if you're an apologist for the Left - but not if you're pro-Trump and MAGA.
And the subordinate serves at her pleasure. Not appropriate; I don't care what they tell you at the Clinton library.
cruise included
I’d say so. I’d also say “fruit of the poisoned tree.” The who prosecution team and case needs to be thrown out.
I’m getting a raise and a cruise! I love my boss! Well until she kicks me to the curb 😡
if I became a DA maybe I’ll get a spiffy girlfriend AND a cruise,.
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