Posted on 01/17/2024 7:04:23 AM PST by bitt
The Fani Fish Rots From The Head Down, Requiring Intervention By The Governor’s Office Startling revelations out of Fani Willis’ office suggesting an improper romantic relationship giving rise to an irremediable conflict of interest between Georgia’s District Attorney and the special prosecutor, Nathan Wade, should result in the entire case’s dismissal, without prejudice.
The allegations of impropriety between Willis and Wade, whom Willis’ team contracted in November of 2021, are legion, and include not only an inappropriate romantic relationship, but also serious allegations of self-dealing that involves Willis abusing her public office for lavish vacations, federal funding, and myriad other ethics violations.
The fiery allegations percolated to the surface after Mike Roman, one of the 17 co-defendants implicated in the Willis indictment, raised them in a January 8th court filing seeking to dismiss the grand jury indictment in toto as fatally defective and disqualify the district attorney’s office from further prosecuting the matter.
Roman’s explosive motion highlights improprieties that run the gauntlet from improper romantic relations to breaches of the District Attorney’s Loyalty Oath to egregious instances of self-dealing, most of which can be independently corroborated through adjacent court filings. The misconduct is so severe and persistent that it likely imputes Fani Willis’ whole office.
Fortunately, there is a remedy: under the Georgia State Constitution, Article V, Section III, Paragraph IV, “[t]he Attorney General shall … represent the state in the Supreme Court in all capital felonies and in all civil and criminal cases in any court when required by the Governor …”
Governor Brian Kemp has a constitutional duty to send AG Chris Carr into the District Attorney’s Office to clean up this mess and do so immediately or risk irreparable damage to public confidence in the integrity of the proceeding, and by extension, given President Trump’s involvement, America’s justice system overall.
This remains true, regardless of the veracity of Roman’s allegations, which are exhaustively described in his recent court filing, because of Fulton County’s own rules of professional misconduct regarding conflicts of interest. The Fulton County Code of Ethics states that “no officer … shall, by his or her conduct give reasonable basis for the impression that any person can improperly influence him or her, or unduly enjoy his or her favor, in the performance of any official acts or actions.”
In other words, even the simple appearance of impropriety is sufficient to disqualify an officer from a proceeding whereby such misconduct could raise significant doubts about the integrity and fairness of the process at large.
Indeed, Wade regularly vowed to this standard himself: for example, according to the Marietta Daily Journal, in 2016, Wade stated publicly that “If there’s an appearance, just a mere appearance of impropriety, and there’s a request for recusal, just do it, because by not doing it, what you’re doing is hurting the county in the long run, you’re costing the taxpayers a lot of money.”
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Wish they didn’t use her name and “taint” in the same sentence.
Do we have any idea if Carr has any integrity? Or is he just like the rest of them?
It should be dismissed WITH prejudice (i.e., cannot be re-filed). I think the author didn’t understand what “without prejudice” meant, namely that the case could be re-filed.
The biggest part of the story is that the outside prosecutor hired by Fani Mugabe was paid for his meetings with J6 committee members and White House lawyers. This means there are a number of people who have suddenly found themselves as potential witnesses of interest to the defense in the Georgia -- and who will likely end up testifying in depositions during this presidential campaign.
I'm actually at the point where I don't want the Georgia case to be dismissed.
Given the collusion between the “select” J6 committee, the white house, and Fani’s poisoned prosecution, the dismissal should be with prejudice.
So what are we going to do? All form a line and kiss her ass because she’s a girl and is black? If Trump had done what she’s done, she’d be trying to lynch his butt.
Agree
I think they mean with prejudice [meaning cannot be brought again.]
I have the same concern, that vote tampering evidence is about to come out in court that the left has been trying to keep suppressed. Killing the case will let the lie that Biden won in GA stand.
The allegations of impropriety between Willis and Wade are legion, and include
<><>an inappropriate romantic relationship,
<><>serious allegations of self-dealing
<><>Willis abusing her public office
<><>billing taxpayers for lavish romantic vacations,
<><>WH collusion financed w/ federal funds,
<><>and myriad other ethics violations.
The latest tidbit is that Willis calculatedly lengthened and enlarged the investigation
of Trump so that the tax-paid financial benefits to her and Wade could be unlawfully increased.
Black Lives Matter
Seems more likely she will be replaced and the case will go on. That only after the ahole Kemp is forced to remove her.
Haven’t you heard? The Governor has no interest in addressing the Willis impropriety. He is yucking it up with the Davos crowd after ponying up the taxpayers $250k for his attendance ticket, ‘instructing’ them all on how much Georgia has to offer the global world leaders.
I could not even count all the cases I’ve seen of incompetent gubmint employees “failing upwards” to high-paying positions.
Dismissing "Without Prejudice" indicates it can be refiled/prosecuted?
Did not sleep at a Holiday Inn last night......
None of these cases were ever going to go anywhere.
Re: Dismissed Without Prejudice
That means the charges can be filed again.
Why does the author want that?
The charges should be dismissed WITH prejudice, so that they cannot be refiled.
“The biggest part of the story is that the outside prosecutor hired by Fani Mugabe was paid for his meetings with J6 committee members and White House lawyers.”
AKA a “bagman”
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