Posted on 01/13/2024 8:57:44 AM PST by CFW
During a Jan. 12 motions hearing, Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee indicated a hearing on what one attorney termed “scandalous” allegations surrounding the district attorney’s relationship with a prosecutor would be held mid-February.
Judge McAfee is holding motions hearings every Friday for the next few weeks in the case Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is prosecuting against former President Donald Trump for his actions to challenge the 2020 election results. President Trump and 14 codefendants have been charged with violating the state’s Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act and have been accused of operating a criminal conspiracy in their election challenge efforts.
Earlier this week, defendant Michael Roman, a former GOP strategist, made huge accusations of the “improper” use of funds in the district attorney’s office.
He alleged that Nathan Wade, an attorney for the prosecution who has argued at every hearing in the case, had taken lavish vacations with Ms. Willis using state funds. Mr. Wade is currently married and seeking divorce.
Mr. Wade is a partner at his own, private law firm, and would be paid by the district attorney’s office after his appointment as special prosecutor, which the motion alleges is close to $1 million in legal fees. Mr. Wade has been paid at a rate of $250 per hour, and around $650,000 for this case.
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Judge to Hold Hearing on Allegations of DA Fani Willis’s ‘Improper’ Use of Funds, Affair
Shouldnt the judge recuse himself from this new case ???
Pretty sure when the judge sees the “D” after her name, they’ll be “nothing to see here folks” . . .
“Shouldnt the judge recuse himself from this new case ???”
It is not a new case. It is an integral part of the original Fulton County case against Trump and the other defendants in the RICO prosecution.
"[2013] Legal Ethics and Professionalism Competition
It was an all UGA final at the Third Annual Legal Ethics and Professionalism Moot Court Competition, with teams from Georgia Law capturing both firstand second place. Hosted by Mercer University, this is the second year in arow Georgia Law has won this national competition. Third-year students (l. to r.) Chandler L. Smith and Timothy F.J. “Tim” Dean comprised the winning team, while classmates Nneka A. Egwuatu and Scott F. McAfee finished second. Additionally, McAfee was named the tournament’s best oralist."
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McAfee may take a strong stand on ethics and professionalism in his courtroom.
The interesting point to me is none of the major characters are publicly denying the allegations. And the allegation that Wade is not a RICO expert, yet was paid double what an expert should get, is a fact.
If the allegations are not true, why has Fani been subpoenaed to be a witness in Wade’s divorce hearing?
BACKSTORY Earlier, Nathan Wade was paid $$millions
of tax dollars to “investigate” inmates in prison deaths.
<><>After years of investigation he admitted he had no written records of his review.
<><>He said he did the work, but his review was “in his mind.”
Fast Forward
Fani was lying under the covers with Nathan gazing at the Caribbean moon.
So she tapped him on the shoulder and asked him why she wasnt feeling anything.
Nathan told Fani not to worry. He gave her a real good shtupe .....he did it all in his mind.
Yep a conflicted rat Judge holding a hearing on a corrupt conflicted rat DA. The outcome is already known.
Wade and Willis should be prosecuted federally for racketeering
based on “honest services wire fraud” but that will never happen.
Reality check
Any citizen, can act as a private plaintiff:
<><>to bring a civil RICO claim against everyone involved
<><>a key charge is that Wade & Willis got paid to meet with WH personnel
<><>Biden’s WH helped to coordinate the attack (collusion).
<><>Wade’s WH billing invoices now online are the most powerful evidence
<><>The RICO venue statute is very broad,
<><>so the case could be brought in Georgia, or anywhere else there is a defendant,
<><>or any place where acts related to the conspiracy occurred.
There are any number of web sites that instruct on how to easily file a RICO.
Perhaps we could get Fani Willis to describe all the (cough) fun ways
she and Wade burned through $650,000 of taxpayer money.
Wade was paid at the rate of $250 per hour—as an ‘Attorney Consultant’ and later a ‘Special Assistant District Atty’ in the Trump prosecution for 2021-2022 alone, county records show..
One WH consultation alone (he went to the WH twice) netted Wade $4000.
But wait.........Wade’s law firm partner got another $175,000 or so for helping out Wade.
The law firm bundle was in addition to the tax dollars Wade got as a “special prosecutor.
PLUS Fani gave Sp/Pr Wade....wait for it......a govt “expense account.”
He musta “performed” really well to get that perk....snx.
That’s what we need to see.....Willis would have done mucho
damage to taxpayers helping Wade fill out his expense account.
NYP pic-—Wade drives a silver Audi A8 L 4.2 Quattro —
valued at more than $100,000 new. / by Benjamin Hendren NYP
Wade was paid at the rate of $250 per hour, as (a) an ‘Attorney Consultant’ and later
as (b) a ‘Special Assistant District Atty’ in the Trump prosecution for 2021-2022 alone,
county records show.
My friend wants to know.......do county records show
Wade’s $250 per hour includes nailing Fani in the Caribbean?
Actually PRAY FOR THE JUDGE TO BE STRONG!!
Is that First Part for REAL???? And they didn’t DISBAR him?? OMG!! Tell me that was a joke.
Why?
Very Real.......but firing a black guy extorting the taxpayers is not on the must-do list.
Known as unofficial reparations.
Just like all the LOOTING that goes on!!
“The interesting point to me is none of the major characters are publicly denying the allegations. And the allegation that Wade is not a RICO expert, yet was paid double what an expert should get, is a fact.
If the allegations are not true, why has Fani been subpoenaed to be a witness in Wade’s divorce hearing?”
Oh, I suspect the allegations are true. Now the instigators are just trying to figure the new narrative to blame it on Trump and his supporters. I’m sure they are meeting over the weekend and will have their faithful AJC (Atlanta’s leftist newspaper that excuses all democrat corruption) explain to us how Willis and Ward’s actions were all for the common good.
“The interesting point to me is none of the major characters are publicly denying the allegations. And the allegation that Wade is not a RICO expert, yet was paid double what an expert should get, is a fact.
If the allegations are not true, why has Fani been subpoenaed to be a witness in Wade’s divorce hearing?”
Oh, I suspect the allegations are true. Now the instigators are just trying to figure the new narrative to blame it on Trump and his supporters. I’m sure they are meeting over the weekend and will have their faithful AJC (Atlanta’s leftist newspaper that excuses all democrat corruption) explain to us how Willis and Wade’s actions were all for the common good.
The Democrat Party Organized Crime Syndicate.
Anyone who still supports the Democrats has a criminal heart.
Special Prosecutor Nathan Wade connected to 2020 open records controversy
Wade testified he kept no written documentation of an investigation he was tasked with overseeing
Author: Zach Merchant, 11alive.com, January 11, 2024
ATLANTA — As the special prosecutor helping to lead the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office’s prosecution of former President Donald Trump is under mounting scrutiny, records show Nathan Wade’s conduct was called into question years earlier when he admitted in court that he “destroyed” notes.
Wade has faced an increasingly bright spotlight after Ashleigh Merchant (no relation to the author of this report), a defense attorney representing Michael Roman in the 2020 election case, filed a motion accusing Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and Wade of engaging in “an improper, clandestine personal relationship.”
It is important to note: the filing did not provide concrete evidence in support of its allegations.
However, Wade’s conduct has been questioned before.
Following a series of inmate deaths within the Cobb County Jail, 11Alive filed an open records request in 2020 to better understand the circumstances surrounding the in-custody deaths. Specifically, 11Alive sought the “complete criminal and internal affairs case files” pertaining to three Cobb County inmates.
link-—2020 INVESTIGATION: Judge orders Cobb County Sheriff to turn over files on jail deaths
The Cobb County Sheriff’s Office declined to release the records, despite the fact that their attorney acknowledged two of the files “were previously released to members of the public,” according to court records from the time.
Their reasoning? The cases had been “reopened” as part of a broader investigation by “an independent law firm” into inmate deaths, according to an email from a Cobb County attorney included in a court filing.
Nathan Wade’s law firm was asked to conduct this “third-party review,” according to a court filing on behalf of then-Cobb County Sheriff Neil Warren. An affidavit from then-Chief Deputy Sonya Allen said the firm “offered to conduct the review” for free.
Under Georgia law, open investigations are generally exempt from disclosure required under the Open Records Act.
But 11Alive reporting at the time raised questions about the authenticity of the investigation and 11Alive attorneys filed suit to release the records.
In one filing, Sheriff Warren’s attorney wrote that over the course of about five months, “both Nathan Wade and his law partner” had “met with numerous staff members and inmates and reviewed hundreds of files.” According to the document, “the estimated time for completion of the review [was] mid-October.”
That document was filed October 9, 2020. At a hearing three days later, Wade said as of the time of the hearing, he had no records of his investigation.
11Alive attorney Derek Bauer asked: “You do not have a single record in your possession that’s associated with the review and assessment that you’ve been engaged to undertake?”
“I do not,” Wade responded.
He said his law firm didn’t have any either.
When pressed, Wade said he had created work product, “just not in the form of documents, communications, or records memorializing, reflecting evidence, or relating to the work.”
11Alive’s attorney asked what that work product was. Wade said he kept it in his mind.
“I have obviously my brainchild, what’s going on in my mind about it,” said Wade. “That’s what I have.”
On the occasions when Wade did take paper notes on interviews, he said he destroyed them.
“Got done with it, destroyed it, and walked out,” said Wade.
In an order ruling in favor of 11Alive and compelling the Cobb Sheriff’s Office to release many of the initially-requested case files, Cobb County Superior Court Judge A. Gregory Poole dismissed all claims against Wade after finding that “there is no evidence that defendant Wade possesses any documents or other materials subject to the Open Records Act request.”
But Judge Pool also noted Wade had “not produced any reports or other documentation of his review” and had “no timetable for compiling and releasing a report.”
Calls to Nathan Wade’s law office and the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office seeking comment for this story were un-returned as of the time of publication.
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