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
That is weird. So corrupt top to bottom.