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The best way to save democracy, it seems, is by spending taxpayer dollars on cruises with your boss/girlfriend. At least, that was the approach of Trump special prosecutor and Fulton County DA Fani Willis’ alleged paramour Nathan Wade. Wade spent north of $6,000 on travel to places like Aruba in October and November 2022 alone, records from his ugly divorce case reveal — and he paid for plane tickets for Willis, clearly intending her to fly with him on at least some of the lavish trips. So, to recap: Staunch and incorruptible defender of the republic Willis hires Wade, an...

Special prosecutor Nathan Wade paid for Fulton County, Georgia, District Attorney Fani Willis to accompany him on at least two trips in 2022 and 2023 after Willis had already hired him to oversee her RICO case against former President Donald Trump, court filings show. Wade’s estranged wife, Joycelyn, submitted a court filing on Friday in the couple’s ongoing divorce case which included credit card statements. The statements showed that Wade had purchased plane tickets for himself and Willis to travel to San Francisco and Miami over the past year ... The court filing comes after Michael Roman, a co-defendant in...

<p>Attorneys for ousted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich say they're definitely heading to the U.S. Supreme Court in an effort to delay his corruption trial.</p>

WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court said Tuesday it will take up former Enron CEO Jeff Skilling's appeal of his convictions for his role in the collapse of the energy giant, accepting another high-profile challenge to a favorite tool of prosecutors in white-collar and public corruption cases. Skilling's appeal stems from his convictions in 2006 on 19 counts of conspiracy, securities fraud, insider trading and lying to auditors involving the 2001 collapse of Enron. The justices already are entertaining similar claims from former newspaper magnate Conrad Black and a former Alaska lawmaker ensnared in a public corruption scandal. At issue in...