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Atlanta DA Fani Willis cites ‘confidentiality, won’t give records on Trump case
NYPost ^ | 1/26/24 | Steven Nelson

Posted on 01/26/2024 10:08:36 AM PST by CFW

WASHINGTON — The Georgia district attorney accused of having an affair with an attorney she hired to prosecute former President Donald Trump responded to Congress on behalf of her alleged lover Friday — saying “confidentiality interests” mean she can’t hand over any documents related to the case.

Fulton County DA Fani Willis, who is facing calls even from allies to step off the Trump case due to the allegations of improper self-dealing, fired off the defiant response after House Judiciary Committee chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) reached out to her alleged paramour Nathan Wade.

“Dear Mr. Jordan: I am writing to you regarding your January 12, 2024, letter to Attorney Nathan Wade, who is retained by this office as a Special Assistant District Attorney,” Willis wrote to Jordan, who had demanded records from Wade of payments to him from Willis’ office, in addition to any records concerning contacts with the Biden administration.

“Your letter requested records of the Fulton County District Attorney’s office, so Mr. Wade forwarded your letter to me as District Attorney for response,” Willis wrote.

“Your letter is simply a restatement of demands that you have made in past correspondence for access to evidence in a pending Georgia criminal prosecution.

“As I said previously, your requests implicate significant, well-recognized confidentiality interests related to an ongoing criminal matter. Your requests violate principles of separation of powers and federalism, as well as respect for the legal protections provided to attorney work product in ongoing litigation. I refer you to my previous responses to your inquiry for more detailed analysis.”

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; US: Georgia
KEYWORDS: contemptofcongress; faniwillis; georgia; impeachment; judiciarycommittee; trump; trumppersecution; willis
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To: CFW

Fanny be da man, man.


21 posted on 01/26/2024 11:39:32 AM PST by Wdempsey (Democrats and slinkys.. Both useless but fun to push down stairs.v v ely)
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To: Liz
None of the Democrat candidates and none of their Democrat supporters who questioned election results were ever legally cited nor were they charged w/ any crimes related to questioning election results.

Announcement: Stacey Abrams, please pick up the white courtesy phone in the lobby.

22 posted on 01/26/2024 12:08:07 PM PST by Go Gordon
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To: Go Gordon

Your turn, Stacey.......put down the jelly donut.


23 posted on 01/26/2024 12:25:24 PM PST by Liz (Matthew 11.28-30: Come to me, all you who are weary and heavy laden, and I will give strength.)
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From X:

BREAKING: The Georgia State Senate has voted 30-19 to create a special committee to investigate Fani Willis.

It will have 6 Republicans and 3 Democrats, has full subpoena power, and can require testimony under oath.


24 posted on 01/26/2024 12:47:00 PM PST by TigerClaws
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To: CFW

At some point she is going to get some confidential dismissal action by her overlords. Don’t put it past FJB to Seth Rich this B*tch.


25 posted on 01/26/2024 12:58:02 PM PST by Jumper
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To: MeganC

I could live with that.


26 posted on 01/26/2024 1:03:20 PM PST by dhouston
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To: CFW

But Trump can’t use Presidential immunity?

This crap is laughable.


27 posted on 01/26/2024 1:13:18 PM PST by Fledermaus (Is it me, or all of a sudden have the buried trolls are coming out on FR like cicadas? All noise.)
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To: AnthonySoprano

He caught Trey Gowdy disease.


28 posted on 01/26/2024 1:15:42 PM PST by Fledermaus (Is it me, or all of a sudden have the buried trolls are coming out on FR like cicadas? All noise.)
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As an Attorney I can assure you this is not just unethical, it is illegal. The actual legal term for what they did is called “Theft of Honest Services”. The larger liability they face is that for each case she brought against someone that Wade was paid for is another count. It could easily be charged as a RICO case. The systematic charging of crimes by the DA and the subsequent payments to Wade for working on those cases provided illegal benefits to them both. Hence the term, Theft of Honest Services. In essence it is illegal to charge someone with a crime so you or a boyfriend, spouse or relative, etc.. benefit from those charges in any way that would constitute a thing of value, monetarily or otherwise of value.

Comment was posted to this story:

https://nypost.com/2024/01/19/news/fani-willis-and-nathan-wade-traveled-together-amid-trump-probe/

It appears there are elements to honest services fraud:

To be guilty of violating the honest services fraud statute, you must owe a duty of honest service to someone and have deprived that person or entity of the duty owed by accepting a bribe or kickback from another person.

The federal fraud by mail or wire statutes, of which the honest services fraud statute is a part, provide for a fine or a maximum prison sentence of up to 20 years, or both. This prison sentence can be for each instance of mail or wire fraud, specifically each letter, each telephone call, and each email. Conceivably, prison sentences could total up to well over 100 years.

Willis overpaid her boyfriend Wade to prosecute third parties and she received kickbacks — free trips, plane tickets, resorts, etc. — using the stolen taxpayer funds.


29 posted on 01/26/2024 1:27:08 PM PST by TigerClaws
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To: Red Badger

“Am I mistaken?

She’s essentially claiming “Attorney Client Privilege”?..........”


That is what it seems. Too bad Trump couldn’t have made the same claim. Unfortunately, there is the “Trump” exception to such laws.


30 posted on 01/26/2024 1:48:06 PM PST by CFW (I will not comply!)
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To: CFW

“confidentiality interests” mean she can’t hand over any documents.

Decoded: I’ve got nothing to give.


31 posted on 01/26/2024 1:58:39 PM PST by Vaduz
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To: CFW

Privacy rights, national security and secrecy are often abused to shield government from public scrutiny and culpability.

Why do you think HRC “really” ran her private server?

It’s so she had control over all the information and who gets to see it. Go put in a FOIA request, what’s on her box isn’t visible. The other thing usually done is the verbal meeting, i.e. no record. If it’s really dubious stuff, you meet on a tarmac someplace where no other ears can hear (feed Intel to a political candidate).

That’s our “transparent” government at work, serving the people and defending the Constitution from all enemies foreign and domestic. Hahahaha


32 posted on 01/26/2024 7:37:22 PM PST by Red6
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To: CFW

I hope you have this right. Certainly something needs to be done about this woman.


33 posted on 01/26/2024 7:38:57 PM PST by oldtech
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