Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who is accused of having a secret relationship with the special prosecutor she hired to prosecute former President Donald Trump in the Georgia election interference case, was arrested in 2020. In an interview, he promised not to sleep with staff members.
Willis has come under fire for allegedly having a secret affair with Nathan Wade, whom he appointed as a highly paid special prosecutor in the high-profile case in November 2021, the day before he filed for divorce from his wife.
“I would never choose to date people who work for me,” Willis He spoke during an appearance on “The Patricia Clayton Show” in April 2020. During the district attorney election campaign.
“We're in a place in society where things happen in relationships between people, sometimes husbands and wives, or outside relationships. I don't think the community is concerned about that. There's no sense of ethics there. “There may be some destruction,” she continued.
“I think what the public is really concerned about is that you may have chosen to have inappropriate contact with an employee,” she continued.
“I can't say anything about it other than it's distracting. It's definitely inappropriate for the No. 1 law officer in this state and it's really, really sad,” she said.
Willis added: “It would be very unfortunate if the taxpayers of this community had to pay for any of these lawsuits.”
Willis and Wade were accused of “inappropriate” allegations filed last week by Michael Roman, one of Trump's 18 co-defendants in Willis' RICO investigation. This is the first time they have been accused of having a relationship.
Mr. Roman's filing alleges that Mr. Wade, a private attorney with the Atlanta-based firm Wade & Campbell, will use some of the approximately $654,000 in legal fees paid by the prosecutor's office to take Mr. Willis on luxury trips. He is accused of using the vehicle to take him to
He argued that the criminal charges against Willis should be dismissed, saying Willis “violated laws regulating the use of public funds, suffered an irrevocable conflict of interest, and violated his constitutional oath of office.” did. georgia Rules of professional conduct. ”
Willis is also accused of hiring Wade despite not having the proper qualifications or experience to handle criminal matters.
Wade's ex-wife, Joycelyn Wade, said in a motion filed Friday in Cobb County Superior Court that Wade sealed their divorce records shortly after being hired by Willis' office to cover up their breakup. claimed to have tried.
She claimed that her ex-husband never told her that he was working for Willis on the Trump case or that he was making an exorbitant amount of money for that job. She said he was left with “little means of financial support” while he joined prosecutors on trips to California, Florida and the Caribbean.
On Thursday, Willis' lawyers argued that Willis cannot give relevant testimony because the marriage effectively ended in 2017, when Jocelyn allegedly cheated on him, and filed a lawsuit against Wade on January 23. filed a motion to quash the deposition. About Nathan.
In response, Ms. Willis' lawyers argued that Ms. Willis's claims of infidelity were false and that Ms. Willis' previous infidelity at the hands of Nathan Wade had caused her to “feel a severe disconnection in her marriage.”
Sources told The Post that the two have been working together since at least 2019.
The Fulton County Commission also announced Friday that it had opened an investigation into whether Willis misused county funds and “received valuable gifts or personal benefits” from Wade. The Atlanta State Attorney's Office has until February 2nd to respond.
Meanwhile, Mr. Wade was back in court today for a hearing in his Georgia election interference case.
