Posted on 01/24/2024 4:44:09 PM PST by bitt
The best way to save democracy, it seems, is by spending taxpayer dollars on cruises with your boss/girlfriend.
At least, that was the approach of Trump special prosecutor and Fulton County DA Fani Willis’ alleged paramour Nathan Wade.
Wade spent north of $6,000 on travel to places like Aruba in October and November 2022 alone, records from his ugly divorce case reveal — and he paid for plane tickets for Willis, clearly intending her to fly with him on at least some of the lavish trips.
So, to recap: Staunch and incorruptible defender of the republic Willis hires Wade, an attorney with zero experience in complex RICO cases like hers against Trump, to prosecute the former president for his alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
A day later, he files for divorce from his wife (leaving her destitute, she says).
Willis saw that Wade got paid more per hour than the state’s leading RICO prosecutor, i.e., a man who actually knows what he’s doing.
Wade racks up almost $700,000 on the taxpayers’ dime.
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Inside Trump prosecutor Nathan Wade’s $6,000 spending spree on luxury cruises and Caribbean resorts And kicks fat chunks of it back to Willis in the form of romantic getaways for two.
This after Willis thundered in 2020 that any such workplace romance was beyond the pale.
It’s clear she knows that what she and Wade were allegedly getting up to is dead wrong — as would anyone with the moral compass of a 10-year-old — despite her lame efforts to play the race card.
But that’s how it goes with our tribunes of the people.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
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Honest Services fraud under Title 18 U.S. Code 1346 is a federal crime involving the misuse of an individual’s position or authority for personal gain or advantage.
It can be committed by public officials, corporate officers, and private individuals with fiduciary duties to another person or entity.
Since 18 U.S.C. 1346 was implemented, case law has clarified that honest services fraud must include some bribe or kickback to be considered a crime. (Skrilling v. United States, 2010) Thus, honest services fraud involves three entities:
Someone offering a bribe or kickback;
Someone accepting the bribe or kickback; and
A victim—someone deprived of the intangible right of honest services due to the bribe or kickback.
As an extension of the mail and wire fraud statutes, honest services fraud can be severely penalized upon conviction. The possible penalties are as follows:
For general instances of honest services fraud: Fines of up to $250,000 and up to 20 years in federal prison;
For instances of honest services fraud that involve a financial institution or which affect benefits being provided in a nationally declared disaster or emergency: Fines of up to $1 million and up to 30 years in federal prison.
Na, they’re just Frisky
well... if we have to save capitalism by destroying capitalism this makes sense. wondering if we should destroy democray to save democray.
A day later, he files for divorce from his wife (leaving her destitute, she says).
Willis saw that Wade got paid more per hour than the state’s leading RICO prosecutor, i.e., a man who actually knows what he’s doing.
Wade racks up almost $700,000 on the taxpayers’ dime.
They should both be disbarred. And if this stupid woman is capable of getting a law degree and passing the bar, I'm going to do it too.
Bkmk
It’s really simpler than an Honest Services charge. The money Willis used to pay Wade was Federal Covid money intended to remove/alleviate court case back logs created by the Covid Pandemic. This case is not that. Never was. The expenditures of those funds for that purpose needs to be audited and charged for misuse/abuse of Federal funds.
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Hell hath no fury...
I'm sure she's got a lot to say about this matter.
I am sure, he’ll get disbarred, not so sure about her.
Sounds like someone’s Fani may wind up in prison.
I’m shocked nobody’s done a parady of “That’s the Night the Lights went out in Georgia”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4GMUlCBgd0
You would think taxpayers would be victims. But what if a majority of Fulton County residents approved of what she did? I am hoping they don't approve, but not sure.
Saving democracy one vacation, paid with Georgia state taxpayers, at a time. I guarantee he wasn’t paid enough to screw that ugly, stupid and slimy skank.
She hired a firm to monitor what’s said about her DEI sorry fat black a## on the internet
politico.com / edited excerpt
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By hiding behind her blackness, Willis makes it look like she has committed some very serious wrongdoing. Legal responses are expected to be delivered in court but Willis went to church....a decidedly black church to, 1. underline her blackness, and, 2. score points about racism.
Her speech in church was purely political agit-prop, evasive on pretty much every material factual question. It was a serious disservice to Willis’ constituents, and further calls into question her professional judgment, which had already come under scrutiny even before all this.
She suggests her blackness alone is the reason the case was brought to buttress her burgeoning ambitions.
Willis whined, Trump’s allies were racists heaping extra scrutiny on a Black woman, but the fact is that attorneys of color also make mistakes, and they are also capable of engaging in serious professional misconduct just like white people.
The fact that a prosecutor is Black, brown, blue or any other color does not grant them immunity from legitimate questions about how they do their jobs. Defendant’s may nit-pick the charges against them but criticism in a court of law is not typically construed as racism.
A “cheap shot” comes to mind.
It is incumbent upon Willis to address the allegations clearly and forthrightly — and to let the chips fall where they may.
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bkmk
An articulate young Black man.....a Fulton County resident.....addresses the County Board of Commissioners and leaves then in in STUNNED SILENCE after calling out the election interference, and Fani Willis’ corrupt affair. Other residents in the audience APPLAUD:
<><>”I’m done with Fulton County fumbling our elections.
<><> I’m done with the gross mismanagement of our tax dollars by the Democrats on this body.
<><>As a taxpayer, I’m disgusted at what is coming out of the DA’s office.
<><>I am done with most of your silence
<><>at the DA’s apparent love affair with the special prosecutor
<><>the gross mismanagement of taxpayers’ dollars
<><>the pursuit of what appears to be a frivolous lawsuit, based off of partisan politics.”
He mocked Commissioners by saying, “Apparently, guys like me need to court Fulton County female executives” like Fani Willis to get things paid at country expense.
He noted the irony of the DA claiming to protect past elections, but he said, “She’s trying to interfere with future elections, by trying to convict a candidate before the general election.”
He requested a “financial audit” done by the county auditor of the District Attorney’s office immediately.
You can hear the clapping as he finishes.
Thank you, sir, for saying it for so many.
At least one of the Commissioners has already demanded answers from Willis about allegations of “misused County funds and accepted valuable gifts and personal benefits from a contractor recipient of County funds.” Fulton County Commissioner Bob Ellis, a Republican, demanded that she turn over records that he requested in the matter by Feb. 2. So, hopefully they can get more information on the matter, and, upon hearing the soaring words of this young man, it sounds like they have folks there focused on getting to the bottom of things.
Fani Willis and Nathan Wade like the Jefferson’s but in a different way.
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