Posted on 02/29/2024 4:21:04 AM PST by RoosterRedux
Georgia prosecutor Fani Willis and her former lover Nathan Wade are facing two ethics complaints from a conservative government watchdog group based on their court testimony on allegations they had an 'improper' affair.
The American Accountability Foundation (AAF) is requesting that the Georgia state bar open disciplinary proceedings against the Fulton County DA and Wade for violations of the Georgia Rules of Professional Conduct.
AAF is alleging Wade lied under oath about his relationship with Willis, and alleging that Willis admitted to keeping campaign money for personal use on the witness stand.
"To ensure that the citizens of Fulton County and the State of Georgia understand that the Bar will not countenance any violation of its ethics by those charged with upholding it, we urge you to revoke Ms. Willis’ license to practice law and permanently bar her from practicing law," adding the same request in a separate complaint against Wade.
The complaint against Willis notes that on Feb 15. 2024 she testified before Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee and was questioned regarding her reimbursement of Wade and her use of cash with no bank or transaction receipts. Willis was asked where the cash originally came from, to which she replied:
"Cash is fungible. I’ve had cash for years in my house. So for me to tell you the source of where it comes from ... when you go to Publix and you buy something and you get fifty dollars and you throw it in there. It’s been my whole life. When I took out a large amount of money during my first campaign, I kept some of the cash of that."
AAF claims that Willis’ "admission" represents "the admission of a clear violation of Georgia Campaign Finance law."
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Anyone can “file a complaint”.
So what?
Contact the State Bar of Georgia.
Staff Directory available to locate
person/department you might need.
Call us at 404-527-8700 or 800-334-6865.
but someone has to beat the drum to keep the march going
Wow, it was interesting watching these goons lie. It’s nice to see someone holding their feet to the fire:
From the article:
The complaint against Willis notes that on Feb 15. 2024 she testified before Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee and was questioned regarding her reimbursement of Wade and her use of cash with no bank or transaction receipts. Willis was asked where the cash originally came from, to which she replied:
“Cash is fungible. I’ve had cash for years in my house. So for me to tell you the source of where it comes from ... when you go to Publix and you buy something and you get fifty dollars and you throw it in there. It’s been my whole life. When I took out a large amount of money during my first campaign, I kept some of the cash of that.”
AAF claims that Willis’ “admission” represents “the admission of a clear violation of Georgia Campaign Finance law.” The portion of that law they say is applicable states that, “Nothing in this Code section shall permit or authorize a candidate to utilize campaign funds for the purpose of making gifts, loans, or investments directly to: (A) The candidate…”
“The statute is unambiguous – and the facts are not in dispute – as Ms. Willis described in her testimony, she placed the money that was intended for her campaign into a “fungible” slush fund with other moneys that she would use for various other purposes, including reimbursing her boyfriend for leisure travel,” the complaint states.
FANI WILLIS’ TESTIMONY WAS ‘BELLIGERENT’ AND COULD DAMAGE HER CREDIBILITY, FORMER PROSECUTOR SAYS
The complaint also states that her “keeping some of the cash” was a “willful intentional act and denied the citizens of Georgia the ability to exercise effective oversight over her campaign.”
“It is unreasonable to believe that a barred attorney running for public office would not have been aware that the strict reporting guidelines of Georgia campaign finance law existed to protect the public’s right to oversee elections and that she had an obligation to scrupulously abide by them,” the complaint states.
The complaint against Wade alleges that he lied under oath on more than one occasion. When asked on an interrogatory to “describe each instance in which you have had sexual relations with a person other than your spouse during the course of the marriage,” and he said, “none.”
Wade testified that his marriage “was irretrievably broken in 2015” but that he and his wife agreed to delay a divorce for the sake of their children.
“First it is simply not credible that Mr. Wade did not know that he had sexual relations with Ms. Willis when he replied to the interrogatories above in his divorce case. Put simply, it is clear Mr. Wade knew that he had had sex with Ms. Willis, and he knew that at the time he was still married, and he simply lied in the interrogatories,” the AAF complaint states.
“Whether he was married was not a complicated question. In fact, he was the plaintiff in a divorce case, a case that cannot proceed without the parties being married. As an officer of the court, this is simply unacceptable. It is challenging to think of a more clear-cut example of ‘dishonesty, fraud, deceit or misrepresentation,’” the complaint says.
The complaint goes on to say that Wade’s “rationale for not answering the interrogatories truthfully under questioning shows a whole lack of understanding of the law that makes him unfit to practice law in the State,” deeming him a risk to future potential clients.
“The Bar owes the profession and the public a duty to guard the practice from charlatans and incompetents. Any simple reading of Mr. Wade’s testimony quickly reveals that he is so grossly unfamiliar with the simple understanding of a legal concept like marriage that the risk he and his incompetence poses to vulnerable members of the public requires his exclusion from the profession,” it states.
Willis and Wade did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
[reading a letter that Hawkeye threatens to send to Frank Burns’ wife]
Radar: Dear Mrs. Burns, Since you are so proud of your husband as an officer, it is sad to report that he is frequently out of uniform, and maybe you should know with who.
Hawkeye: [emphasizing] That’s “whom”.
From the M*A*S*H episode “The Trial of Henry Blake”, aired originally on November 3 1973.
As Megan pointed out: in this hearing, three lawyers were clearly caught lying their asses off while under oath and on the stand. What is to be done about it?
The American Accountability Fndtn (AAF) asks the Georgia State Bar open disciplinary proceedings:
<><>alleging county employee Wade lied under oath about his romantic relationship with Willis,
<><>alleging that Willis admitted in court to keeping campaign money for personal use.
Willis was asked where the cash originally came from. She clearly replied: “I’ve had cash for years in my house. So for me to tell you the source of where it comes from ... when you go to Publix and you buy something and you get fifty dollars and you throw it in there. It’s been my whole life. “
AAF claims that Willis’ “admission” attests “to a clear violation of Georgia Campaign Finance law.”
They actually expect the Bar to do something? It’s filled with liberal lawyers. Ethics only apply to Republican lawyers.
I imagine that there are many of the Fani Willis ‘I’m not going to throw a ‘brothuh’ under the bus’ mentality at the Ga Bar, so, yeah, nothing will happen to non-white lawyers.
Apparently, in Ga, justice isn’t blind, it is ignorant and racist.
“What is to be done about it?”
They’ll all be given highly compensated university jobs.
bttt
“The Bar owes the profession and the public a duty to guard the practice from charlatans and incompetents. Any simple reading of Mr. Wade’s testimony quickly reveals that he is so grossly unfamiliar with the simple understanding of a legal concept like marriage that the risk he and his incompetence poses to vulnerable members of the public requires his exclusion from the profession,” it states.
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Lofty words/goals but if these words were strictly enforced there would be no legal profession. In my 40+ years of real estate development, I’ve had attorney-client relationships with at least a hundred different lawyers on scores of civil litigation cases. Tens of thousands of dollars were “effectively” stolen from me through fraudulent billing and mis-use (stealing) of escrow money.
Maybe...
Things be gettin’ tight! Once their usefulness is used up, it might be cheaper to just cast them aside, unless they have some bargaining power in reserve. But Wade and Willis don’t strike me as the sharpest crayons in the box, so I doubt they had the foresight to plan that far ahead. Now is not the time to start gathering proof of collusion from their puppet masters.
We saw the fear on display from Mr. ‘I don’t Recall’. He must have received one hell of a threat. I think the two love birds will take their medicine and go quietly into that good night, i.e. Target floor manager positions, and swallow their arrogance. Learn to forget their days of glory and dreams of what might have been.
disbar them both
Yes!! It’s a start...Perjury is a crime...
Watchdog group refers Fanni and Wade to bar association... does that have videos of dog style action? barf
Oh goodie....
The state bar is a private organization and is run by leftists...
Nothing will happen
So they end up destroying the law as well as their futures. Fools.
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