Posted on 01/09/2024 5:32:51 AM PST by Red Badger
District Attorney Fani Willis improperly hired an alleged romantic partner to prosecute Donald Trump and financially benefited from their relationship, according to a court motion filed Monday which argued the criminal charges in the case were unconstitutional.
The bombshell public filing alleged that special prosecutor Nathan Wade, a private attorney, paid for lavish vacations he took with Willis using the Fulton County funds his law firm received. County records show that Wade, who has played a prominent role in the election interference case, has been paid nearly $654,000 in legal fees since January 2022. The DA authorizes his compensation.
The motion, filed on behalf of defendant Michael Roman, a former Trump campaign official, seeks to have the charges against Roman dismissed and for Willis, Wade and the entire DA’s office to be disqualified from further prosecution of the case.
Pallavi Bailey, a Willis spokeswoman, said the DA’s office will respond to Roman’s allegations “through appropriate court filings.” Wade did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The document offers no concrete proof of the romantic ties between Willis and Wade, but says “sources close to both the special prosecutor and the district attorney have confirmed they had an ongoing, personal relationship.”
Roman’s lawyer, Ashleigh Merchant, said she reviewed the case file in Wade’s ongoing divorce proceedings at the Superior Court Clerk’s Office and made copies of certain documents. But the case file was later improperly sealed because no court hearing was held as required by law, the motion said.
Because the case remains under seal, Merchant said she is not sharing the information she obtained from the divorce file until the seal is lifted. She also said she is asking a judge to unseal the case file.
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The Atlanta Journal and Constitution wrote this? I guess stopped clock and all.
They are trying to get their credibility back...................
As far as I can see, this story is being covered as sort “Well, golly, that doesn’t look good. You know, feels sort of wrong ...”
As opposed to: “The law has been violated. People need to be punished. The legal proceedings need to be scrubbed to remove their taint.”
I’m not sure this is really being addressed as anything more than “That’s a shame”.
They know something is wrong, but they just hate to admit it..................
And this-—Fani appointed her boyfriend the special prosecutor, but the counsel’s oath of office was never filed by the scurrilous Willis. One could speculate this was an oversight. However, observing the ambitious Fani Willis, and the huge amt of tax dollars involved, it may have been entirely calculated.
This episode ......concocted using Willis’ legal power and tax dollars..... is a potential basis for the disqualification of Willis and her boyfriend Wade, as both tax-paid prosecutors have a personal interest and a financial/political stake in the possible conviction of Trump.
<><>DA Willis broke the rules governing the appointment of a Special Prosecutor to benefit her lover.
<><>Willis apparently misrepresented how she’d use County tax dollars
<><>Willis was thought to be clearing the COVID-19 legal backlog,
<><>instead, Willis used tax dollars to appoint boyfriend Wade without proper approval.
<><>more egregiously, were Willis’ giving billing approvals
<><>boyfriend Wade received “almost $1,000,000.00 in legal fees” from County tax dollars
Did the tax-paid Fani make a concerted attempt to shield from public knowledge
<><>that the special prosecutor she appointed, was her boyfriend?
<><>and that Fani appointed Wade without legal authority?
They’re not sending their best, folks.
Maybe they are!........................
Flim-Flam Fani......................Got some ‘splainin’ to do!.................
And she has every incentive to draw out the prosecution so her beau can make hundreds of thousands of dollars more in legal fees and pay for her trips, etc. This is a huge deal and may derail the GA case.
It’s not uncommon for Dem officials, who are all mostly corrupt, to get entangled in their own web of corruptness.
It’s the one thing the GOP has going for it in these lawfare cases.
“DemocRATs” .... doing what they do!!
They haven’t had any for a long, long time.
What a sweetheart deal…..DA purloin public funds to persecute Trump, and funnel them to an adulterous lover to pay for vacations
Fat Fanni seems corrupt.
Georgie’s Girls are turning out to be a bunch of crooks. You don’t have to worry about the laws when you are the law.
Willis improperly hired an alleged romantic partner“
“Improperly” “alleged” you could not minimize something this corrupt more.
The Atlanta Urinal & Constipation did? I’m smackgobbed...
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