Georgia lawmakers are rushing testimony against Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, saying lawmakers are opening an investigation into allegations of misconduct against the embattled prosecutor.
Sen. Bill Cowsert, R-Georgia, began a meeting of the state Senate Special Committee on Investigations on Friday, announcing that multiple employees of the state attorney’s office prosecuting former President Donald Trump on election interference charges have filed against their boss. He made it clear that he was hoping for a valid testimony.
But the Peach state lawmaker insisted there was no political motive behind the investigation.
“This is not a political witch hunt. This is a search for truth,” Cowsert said during the meeting. Fox 5 per Atlanta.
Cowsert said whistleblowers allege Willis misappropriated state and federal funds, a bombshell statement filed in January by Trump co-defendant Michael Roman. It is said that it is the same.
Roman alleges that Willis had an “inappropriate” relationship with Nathan Wade, the special counsel hired to investigate the Trump case, for which he will be paid $654,000 in 2022. He claimed to have received it.
He claimed that Mr. Wade used some of his income to splurge on lavish gifts and vacations with his boss, and that conflicts of interest led Mr. Willis, Mr. Wade, and the district attorney’s office to close the former president’s election interference case. He argued that he should be disqualified from prosecuting the case.
Willis recently acknowledged having a “personal relationship” with Wade, but the two did not become romantically involved until 2022, long after he hired Wade as lead prosecutor in 2021. Because of that, she argued, there was no basis to throw out Trump’s case. .
But in Friday’s filing, Roman’s lawyers said Wade’s former law partner, Terrence Bradley, proved Willis was lying and that the two had a romantic relationship. He claimed that it started before he hired him.
Willis called Roman’s claims “despicable” and said they “gave him the media attention he was intentionally seeking.”
