Posted on 02/04/2024 3:40:04 AM PST by Libloather
Fulton Count Georgia DA Fani Willis used a legal filing where she defended her 'personal' relationship with a special prosecutor on her team to hit directly at the lawyer for a Trump codefendant who exposed her affair.
Willis admitted to the stunning affair with special prosecutor Nathan Wade in her 176-page filing Friday, saying it posed no conflict with her role overseeing the case against Trump and associates on racketeering charges.
But in between passages making dry legal arguments, she included a color picture of the lawyer who blew the whistle on her affair. She also dug up the lawyer's own past statements about Wade – which were highly complimentary.
But the lawyer, Ashleigh Merchant, still might get the last laugh. She hit back within hours with yet another filing asking detailed questions about Willis' relationship – and raised doubts about her denial of ever cohabitating with Wade by pointing to information about Caribbean hotels and even alleging she and Wade used an AirBNB 'safe house' in Hapeville, outside Atlanta.
Just the questions Merchant raises suggest she has gathered substantial personal information about Willis, a Trump nemesis, after already battling to unseal divorce filings for information.
The filing spells out some of the probing questions Merchant would ask Wade at an evidentiary hearing about her charges against Willis, if a judge allows it to go forward in the explosive case.
Merchant's filing cites a 2019 judicial conference where according to the Willis filing Wade says he and Willis met and became friends. 'In Paragraph 17 of your affidavit, you swore that you met Ms. Willis in October of 2019 at a Municipal Court training. Isn’t it true that you began more than just a friendship at that conference?' Merchant asks, without revealing the source of her information.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Use caution.
If you use 1% of the investigate effort that they use going after Trump, to go after them, a cornucopia of worms is opened.
A cathedral of lies built by liars.
They so much deserve the ridicule they get.
Interesting that this is in the UK Daily Mail as opposed to the Atlanta Constitution Journal. Gotta protect them Dems I reckon. But Lawd, that is a busy Fani.
“His integrity and reputation are on the line”
LOL. He is a lawyer.
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.
Consider also that Big Fanny and her brobro have exposed themselves to Trump coming back after them to retrieve his legal fees and damages.
It began with her wearing the badge of the state, but it spilled into the personal.
You could do worse. How about the 1957 Larry Williams answer to Long Tall Sally - “Short Fat Fanny”?
How does a person, like Wade did, bill 24 hours in a single day? No breaks of any kind, no food break, nothing. Let me think, how could a person do that. Willpower? No, that won’t do it. It’s a lie? Could be. Help from certain illegal substances? That could do it.
....color picture of the lawyer who blew the whistle on her affair. She also dug up the lawyer’s own past statements about Wade – which were highly complimentary....
Who is paying for the private investigators digging for dirt????
Fani, or the taxpayers?
....color picture of the lawyer who blew the whistle on her affair. She also dug up the lawyer’s own past statements about Wade – which were highly complimentary....
Who is paying for the private investigators digging for dirt????
Fani, or the taxpayers?
Outstanding observation!
To me that is billing fraud and invites at least further scrutiny. There are quite a few round numbers in the billing statements that suggests some fudging of the numbers.
If the best defense you can raise against your accuser is she made complimentary statements about you before she found out you’re a dirtbag, you’re in real trouble
That phrase from your last sentence:
“Fani’s Frivolous Shenanigans”, sounds like well used paperback novel, printed in the 1930’s, around the same time as “Lady Chatterley’s Lover”.
I think there will be MANY porn--ahem--art films made about Fani and Nathan. I'm thinking "Fani's Adventures in Prosecution" starring Long Don(g) Silver as Nathan Wade, David Caruso as the Orange Man (Cameo only), and Fani Willis as herself.
At least we have the theme song.
Jackson Browne - Lawyers In Love
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaZp4fJVHmQ
“Where Nathan Wades!”
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