Posted on 02/02/2024 4:29:57 PM PST by Libloather
Fani Willis, the Fulton County, Georgia, district attorney prosecuting former President Donald Trump and 18 of his allies over 2020 election interference, admitted to having a relationship with the man she appointed to special prosecutor in the case.
In a new court filing on Friday, attorneys for Willis hit back at demands to disqualify her over allegations that she had an "improper" romantic relationship with special prosecutor Nathan Wade. The highly-anticipated court filing was in response to a January 8 motion that was filed by a lawyer for one of the co-defendants in the racketeering case, former Trump campaign staffer Michael Roman.
That motion alleged that the relationship began while Wade - who filed for divorce from Joycelyn Wade on November 2, 2021 - was married. The divorce filing came a day after Willis appointed Wade to spearhead the probe into Trump and others' efforts to overturn Trump's Georgia loss during the 2020 presidential election.
In Willis' response to the motion on Friday, her attorney argued that the efforts to disqualify her have "no merit" and "should be summarily denied without an evidentiary hearing."
"While the allegations raised in the various motions are salacious and garnered the media attention they were designed to obtain, none provide this Court with any basis upon which to order the relief they seek," the filing from Willis' attorneys says.
Willis' lawyers wrote that she never benefited financially from a relationship with Nathan Wade and that she has no financial or personal conflict of interest that justifies disqualification.
"To be absolutely clear, the personal relationship between Special Prosecutor Wade and District Attorney Willis has never involved direct or indirect financial benefit to District Attorney Willis," the filing read.
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….Yeah and they kissed but no tongue.
He’s lying. Show us the recruits.
Tell Greta Van Sustren this:
USA Today 2/2/2024
Josh Meyer
A year before Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis hired Nathan Wade to lead the election fraud case against former President Donald Trump, the relatively unknown private attorney was embroiled in another high-profile case investigating suspicious deaths in an Atlanta-area jail.
Accusations that Wade mishandled the jail-deaths investigation in 2020 are adding to questions about Willis’s judgment in hiring him for the sensitive assignment of investigating the former president and alleged co-defendants in their alleged effort to overturn Georgia’s presidential election that year.
This is a real crime against the people
She sure gets around!
I’m not sure how the Bee comes up with stories these days.
So, he didn’t inhale?
Just a large percentage.
Was the job quid pro quo for the divorce.
The went "halfsies," but he has the credit card transaction and she paid him back with untraceable cash?
Did she give him a personal check with "loan repayment" written in the memo field?
Is that what she's going to claim? I want to see how she paid him back for what he charged on his credit card.
-PJ
I thought that was a Babylon Bee headline.
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