Atlanta D.A. Fani Willis in bed with key prosecutor in Trump case, court documents say

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/jan/8/fani-willis-bed-nathan-wade-key-prosecutor-trump-c/

This is an interesting scandal, if true. The allegation is that Fani Willis hired Nathan Wade to be the lead attorney to prosecute Trump on her behalf. He has been paid more than any other attorney on the case. The counsel for one of Trump's co-defendants claims they have multiple sources that show Fanis Willis and Nathan Wade have had a romantic relationship that began prior to the hiring of Wade on this case and presumably is still ongoing. After payments to Wade began they have allegedly taken numerous vacations together which is a potential benefit to Willis from the funds paid to Wade. They claim to have evidence in documents they copied from his divorce filing. However, after they made the copies, and before they could file their motion, the divorce filing was illegally sealed without the required legal process to do so. The defense counsel is asking for the documents to be unsealed so they can share the documents in their motion. They are also asking for them to be taken off the case.

Fanis Willis was asked about this and she hasn't confirmed or denied the allegation. She says she will only respond in the form of court filings. The judge is likely only going to ask questions that pertain to this case which are likely less invasive than the media is asking since they'd be concerned with the morality and scandal of a potential relationship. If there is evidence of a relationship in existing court filings there should be an ethics probe.

 

Another honey pot extortion exposed for all to see......

 

It takes a lot to get prosecutors removed from a case so I doubt this will be successful. However, if it is successful, the new prosecution team might find it unpalatable to prosecute racketeering charges against defendants for engaging in heinous criminal acts such sending out Zoom links to attorneys.

 

They have also now released records showing Fani Willis's boyfriend, also known as "special" prosecutor Nathan Wade, charged Fani Willis for meetings he had directly with the Biden White House. Special prosecutors are supposed to be outsiders without a conflict of interest. That is why you promote a special prosecutor and that is also why that person is not supposed to be having sex with the elected official going after her political opponents.

 

The corruption runs deep and thick. Evidence of conflict of interest should have meaningful legal consequences in these cases.

 

More fantasies by the righties ? When this turns out to be false, the MAGAs behind it need to go to jail.

"The filing, from a lawyer representing Michael A. Roman, a former Trump campaign official, provided no proof of the relationship or other claims it contained. It argued that the relationship should disqualify Ms. Willis, her office and the special prosecutor, Nathan Wade, from prosecuting the case."

 

Looks like Willis isn't the "smart cookie" some folks thought she was...lol.

 

Ashleigh Merchant is a highly respected attorney. I doubt she would make this claim if she didn't think (know?) she could prove it.

 

What a pathetic and sleazy tactic. The only point or effect of such noise would be to delay the case. The evidence is the evidence, with Trump.

 

I'd say there's most likely some truth to the claim. I'm curious to see how they defend themselves or if the divorce documents get magically leaked to the press by someone who has/had access to them like such information would be leaked against Trump. The allegations are extremely specific which is not typical of a false allegation. They have the cruise lines, the destinations, the specific charges Wade made, etc.

It's also important to note that Fani and Wade motioned to disallow some of the defendants from having the same attorney claiming there was a conflict of interest... while they're likely sleeping together and he's dropping his credit card on mutual vacations. Wade is a curious choice for special prosecutor because he's never tried a RICO case before.

 

I think you'd be hard pressed to find any prosecutor in Georgia, other than Fani, who would have wanted to prosecute a RICO case against an ex-President and individuals who merely scheduled meetings for their boss. It's a laughable legal approach as it is. They may go after him in other ways, but the existing investigation might be thrown in the trash if they can't find someone willing to risk their reputation on this. If Fani is conflicted out, her entire office is conflicted out and nobody in Fulton County can work this case. So it would likely go to the state. You willing to place a bet on whether or not Chris Carr would prosecute someone for sending a Zoom link? The house of cards creating the foundation of this RICO case is pretty thin.

 

If it's such a weak case they can argue the law without needing to do pathetic and sleazy things. Yes the ultimate point of delays is to lead to a situation where they can get rid of the case. This is not the strategy of a team confident in their client's innocence based upon legal facts.

 

If Fani is sleeping with Wade they should be conflicted. Whether or not that happens is another story. But, if the allegations are true and they're conflicted out as they should be... the case goes to the state Attorney General, a Republican, who would assign the case to someone who is likely a Republican DA because there aren't too many Democrat counties in Georgia. It's more than a delay. It would be a disaster for the Georgia case.

That being said, courts defend compromised DAs all the time for some reason. So even if true, it's not a guarantee the court will do the right thing.

 

Merchant must be onto something because Wade's divorce records were abruptly sealed, when she was looking for them.

 

Exactly, and these all seem like the type of allegations that would be made in divorce filings along with bank records... hence the very specific charges that were made, where they went, on what cruise lines they used, etc. Presumably, Merchant got tipped off on this. It's not common to look into divorce filings of prosecutors looking for conflicts. Which means whoever tipped them off has probably spoken to other people about it. More chatter would be expected.

 

That's no excuse for Willis' corruption.

 

Willis made a poor strategic move. She indicted Michael Roman, who has 20 odd years of experience as an opposition researcher.

She should have just let him go...lol

 

So what actual evidence was offered?

 

The divorce filing, which is now sealed, but potentially not to the judge.

 

They're going to have to unseal it.

In Georgia, divorce records are considered public knowledge. The only way they can be sealed is by a judge, after there's been a hearing.

 

Willis and Wade will have to go before the judge and swear that this didn't happen. We'll see how anxious they are to say that under oath...lol

 

Fani was unwilling to even deny it to the press who have been asking her about it. She normally loves talking to the press and getting the attention. The fact that she's running from this story says a lot. She would have loved nothing more than to dunk on the defense counsel making false allegations against her.

 

Poor Fanny. She's going to **** this case up and the Leftists are going to hate her for the rest of her life...lol.

This was literally the only chance they had at prosecuting Trump.

 

More news is coming out. Apparently Wade has never prosecuted a single felony trial, let alone a RICO case. The Fulton County DA's office has far more competent attorneys who could have tried the case. But, the person she's allegedly sleeping with got a king's ransom to do something he's never done before.

Georgia law would not permit him to even be a defense counsel because he has never tried two cases of similar offenses. And his salary, based on his compensation, should have been $140 per hour. So why pay someone nearly $1 million dollars, who is completely unqualified, when you have qualified individuals in your office? Someone needs to ask Fani that question.

 

I'm just finding out now she once got a judge disqualified because she caught him talking negatively about her client to another attorney on courtroom cameras. She does her homework.