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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Pursuant to leftist M.O. for shopping judges, the judge selected should be the following: 1) A Trump appointee; 2) well known for his outspoken conservative views and decisions; and 3) A fierce and vocal critic, nay hater, of fani wallis.
Man, they will have to stretch themselves into pretzels to explain how all of this was good for the case and good for the taxpayers in Georgia. The real irony is what they have done looks like a real RICO case, because they colluded among themselves to extract funds that they used for their own personal pleasure.
Wade has never prosecuted a case. The Fulton County DA ( Willis) has 5 co DA’s i(prosecutors) in her office. Why is Wade being paid? He brings nothing professional to the office. Wade’s soon to be ex has subpoenaed Willis in the divorce. The Georgia DOJ, which over sees Willis is headed by a Republican. There are going to be fire works. I think this case against Trump is over. Wade billed for time spent in DC with Biden’s DOJ.
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WENDELL HUSEBØ
12 Jan 2024
Jim Jordan Launches Investigation into Fani Willis Corruption
Did Biden give Fani Willis $14.5 in federal grants to finance Ga’s Trump persecution?
pic-—ATLANTA, GEORGIA - NOVEMBER 21: Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis appears before Judge Scott McAfee for a hearing in the 2020 Georgia election interference case at the Fulton County Courthouse on November 21, 2023 in Atlanta, Georgia. Judge McAfee heard arguments as to whether co-defendant Harrison Floyd should be …Dennis Byron-Pool/Getty Images
House Judiciary Committee chair Jim Jordan (R-OH) launched an investigation into Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis on Friday for accepting more than $14.6 million in grant funds from President Joe Biden’s Justice Department (DOJ) between 2020 and 2023.
The timeframe of the funds suggests the DOJ granted Willis federal funds to finance former President Donald Trump’s prosecution.
Jordan sent a letter to Nathan Wade, a Willis associate, requesting documents and information about the coordination of Willis’s office with politically motivated probes and alleged misuse of federal funds.
pic-—Fulton County special prosecutor Nathan Wade reacts during a jury questionnaire hearing in the courtroom of Fulton County Superior Judge Scott McAfee at the Fulton County Courthouse on October 16, 2023, in Atlanta, Georgia (Alyssa Pointer/Getty Images).
Jordan’s letter comes after a Monday court filing by Mike Roman, a political operative and co-defendant of Trump in the Georgia election case, who alleged four explosive facts about Willis’s conduct while prosecuting Trump:
Nathan Wade, Willis’s lead prosecutor in the Trump case, had an “improper” relationship with Willis.
Wade’s law firm used funds paid by the county to take Willis on luxury vacations by using potentially fraudulent payments.
Wade was appointed without the required approval by authorities and had little to no prosecutorial experience.
Wade met twice with President Joe Biden’s White House counsel before indicting Trump in August, calling into question if the White House coordinated prosecuting Biden’s 2024 political opponent.
In the letter, Jordan raised six concerns about Willis and Wade’s alleged wrongdoing and questioned if the $14.6 million in grant money financed the Trump prosecution:
“The FCDAO reportedly compensated you using a concoction of comingled funds, including monies confiscated or seized by the FCDAO and monies directed from Fulton County’s ‘general’ fund.”
” The Committee has information that the FCDAO received approximately $14.6 million in grant funds from the Department of Justice between 2020 and 2023 and, given the enormous legal fees you have billed to the FCDAO, there are open questions about whether federal funds were used by the FCDAO to finance your prosecution.”
“In fact, on one day—November 5, 2021—you billed taxpayers for 24 hours of legal work, attesting that you worked all day and night without break on a politically motivated prosecution.”
A recent news report corroborates your coordination with partisan Democrats, explaining that you and FCDAO staff ‘quietly met’ with the partisan January 6 Committee, which allowed you to review information they had gathered. Politico reported that the partisan January 6 Committee provided Ms. Willis’s prosecution a ‘boost’ as she prepared to convene a special grand jury and even ‘helped prosecutors prepare for interviews with key witnesses.’ The same article suggests that the partisan January 6 Committee provided you access to records it withheld from other law-enforcement entities and even other Members of Congress.
Jordan’s probe is the latest effort by Republicans to investigate Willis. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) filed a complaint on Wednesday against Willis and her top prosecutor, seeking the dismissal of the charges against Trump due to Willis’s alleged improper relationship with her top prosecutor in the Trump case.
Representative Jim Jordan, a Republican from Ohio, during a hearing in Washington, DC, US, on Wednesday, July 19, 2023. An IRS supervisory agent has claimed to lawmakers the Justice Department mishandled the Hunter Biden investigation and that the US attorney for Delaware, David Weiss, was prevented from bringing charges wherever he wanted.
“I really have high expectations of Gov. Kemp and our Attorney General Chris Carr,” the Georgia congresswoman exclusively told Breitbart News in a phone interview. “There should be a criminal investigation.”
“This isn’t political at all,” Greene said. “If he [Kemp] ignores this, then he’s showing an extreme political bias,” she added.
link—RELATED — Fani Willis on Possible Trump Jail Time: No ‘Special Break’
Wendell Husebo is a political reporter with Breitbart News and a former GOP War Room Analyst. He is the author of Politics of Slave Morality. Follow Wendell on “X” @WendellHusebø or on Truth Social @WendellHusebo.
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The story of Nathan Wade, Fani Willis’ special prosecutor and alleged lover, keeps getting weirder.
On Thursday, Atlanta’s 11Alive News reported on a previous bizarre case involving Wade and one of the other prosecutors in the anti-corruption unit handling the Trump RICO case, Sonya Allen. In 2020, 11Alive reports, the news station filed an open records request related to a series of inmate deaths in Cobb County Jail (Cobb County covers several northern suburbs of Atlanta, while Fulton County, where Willis is DA, covers the city of Atlanta).
That request was denied by the Cobb County Sheriff’s Office on the grounds that the cases had been reopened as part of an investigation by an “independent law firm”—Wade’s. The sheriff’s office’s then chief deputy, Allen—who is now the deputy district attorney in Willis’ anti-corruption unit, in which Wade serves as special prosecutor—swore in an affidavit that Wade’s firm had “offered to conduct the review” for free.
11Alive filed a lawsuit, alleging that the investigation did not really exist and was merely a pretext to avoid releasing the records. In an Oct. 9, 2020 filing related to that lawsuit, the Cobb County sheriff said that over the course of five months “Wade and his law partner” had “met with numerous inmates and staff members and reviewed hundreds of files.”
However, Wade testified in a hearing three days later that he did not possess a single record from his investigation. He said that while he had produced work during his monthslong review of the cases, it was “not in the form of documents, communications, or records memorializing, reflecting evidence, or relating to the work.”
Rather, he claimed he kept all the information in his head, even going so far as to destroy notes he had taken during interviews as soon as the interviews were completed. The court didn’t buy that and ordered the sheriff’s office to release the records. We’re also curious as to whether Wade really did all of that alleged work for free.
Oh, and here’s another weird thing. Allen is currently running for district attorney in Cobb County. Her campaign website lists an address—1827 Powers Ferry Road Bldg. 25, Suite 100—that happens to also be the address of Wade’s law firm, Wade & Cambpell.
The Scroll called the number listed on Wade & Campbell’s website and asked if Sonya Allen for DA, LLC, also occupied the office. The person on the other end of the line hung up. 4:45 PM · Jan 12, 2024
Even if the DA and her lover are corrupt, what’s the remedy and how is it relevant to the prosecutions case?
We know they went to the WH several times. We know these funds were ultimately used to lavish the DA with exotic vacations. It’s all bad. But what is the motion the judge will hear?
That is weird. So corrupt top to bottom.
Similar types of shenanigans going on in Maine:
“Trump Asks Maine Court to Consider Evidence of Shenna Bellows’ Personal Relationships with Strimling, Saviello”
Shouldnt the judge recuse himself from this new case ???
Certainly would seem so.
There is no doubt all these prosecutions and rulings are political and organized. I just don’t know what the remedy is. I don’t know how a judge can fix corruption unrelated to the allegations before the court. The judges have to deal with allegations and evidence. How the case got before them is mostly irrelevant.
As for the attempts to remove Trump from the ballots, also corrupt and organized. But even those who removed him from the ballot had the sense to stay their own decisions, so there is no net effect. It is just symbolic - for now.
They are all doing the bidding of their party. That’s about the sum of it. Corrupt to the core but the remedy is mostly through the ballot box. The corrupt use of taxpayer funds could be prosecuted in addition to just voting them and their bosses out.
Give ‘em a little power——they’ll change the lawful
well-ordered white world into a chaos of lawlessness.
I hope Trump knows what he is up against.
“Even if the DA and her lover are corrupt, what’s the remedy and how is it relevant to the prosecutions case?
We know they went to the WH several times. We know these funds were ultimately used to lavish the DA with exotic vacations. It’s all bad. But what is the motion the judge will hear?”
I assume the Defendants will file a motion alleging Conflict of Interest. Parties and legal representatives in a case having an undisclosed relationship has always been a no-no in court cases. There are also issues of misuse of taxpayer funds which could reflect negatively on the D.A. and prosecutor’s unbiased pursuit of justice given that the D.A. benefits financially from the prosecutor’s billing practices.
Talk about BLACK PRIVILEGE!!! ANY WHITE (REPUBLICAN) WOULD BE IN PRISON WITH NO LAW LICENSE!!
DA Fani Willis’s Improper’ Use of Funds.
She’s busted for what she tries to blame Trump for.
Karma bites hard
The judge probably wants to get Fani’s number....
Wade did the “for free?”
That’s a laugh.
yahoonews.com——Lawyers in the Atlanta area said they’re riveted by the burgeoning Willis/Wade scandal and its implications for Democrat Willis (elected in 2020).
.......lawyers questioned Willis’ judgement in hiring Wade, w/ little experience in complex investigations....his legal work is serving as a part-time municipal judge and handling non-felony criminal cases as well as divorce and child custody cases, court records show.
“There’s a lot of shock in the legal community about what we’ve seen in the motion,” said one defense attorney. “Wade’s not the first person who comes to mind to handle a complex RICO case against a former president.”
Another defense attorney said the optics are bad for other prosecutors. “What is strange is Willis actually bringing in a ‘special prosecutor,’ and the amount of money she’s paying Wade which far surpasses what other prosecutors get paid. Maybe if Wade was known as the ‘Tom Brady of RICO prosecutions’ it would be understandable, but he’s not.”
If the allegations about Wade and willis are true, “there’s a multitude of problems with it. Just the image of the two going to Napa and going on cruises and going on vacation together, the optics of it are shameful.”
Did you see the photo of Wade in the trendy cobalt blue suit, carrying a briefcase in one hand and a semi automatic handgun in the other hand? Don’t they believe in holsters in GA? Who on earth “carries” a loaded weapon in this manner?
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