A new witness could testify that Fanny Willis warned her boyfriend Nathan Wade’s former business partner to keep quiet about their relationship, a new court filing claims explosively. are doing.
“They’re coming after us. You don’t have to say anything about us,” Willis allegedly warned Terrence Bradley in a September 2023 phone call.
The call was overheard by Cobb County, Georgia, prosecutor Cindy Lee Yeager, according to court documents filed Monday by Trump’s co-defendant David Schaefer.
Willis, the Fulton County district attorney, is currently fighting to stay in office overseeing the election interference case that has indicted 18 people, including Donald Trump.
She is accused of continuing an affair with Wade, whom she appointed as special counsel, but concealing it from the court, creating a conflict of interest.
Willis and Wade said under oath that they were only romantically involved between 2022 and 2023, long after the incident began.
At a hearing last week on whether to disqualify Willis, Bradley claimed on stage that he had “no knowledge” of when the two prosecutors began dating.
But the filing says Yeager intended to swear an oath that contradicted what she told Yeager directly, saying the romance began during Willis’ 2019 prosecutorial investigation.
Bradley also texted another Trump co-defendant’s attorney, with whom the two were “absolutely” dating, before Willis hired Wade as administrator for the Trump prosecution in November 2021, and later testified When confronted with the evidence on the stand, he muttered, “It’s gone.”
Mr. Yeager will testify that Mr. Bradley told Mr. Wade that Mr. Willis had begun a significant romantic relationship with Mr. Willis while Mr. Willis was running for district attorney in 2016.
2019 to 2020,” Monday’s filing states.
After viewing Mr. Bradley’s testimony, Mr. Yeager said, “I became concerned by the fact that what Mr. Bradley testified on the stand was the exact opposite of what Mr. Bradley had told Mr. Yeager directly.” Monday’s filing states.
Willis testified that she began dating Wade in 2022, after she hired him. Her timeline is important because if it is proven that Willis lied on her witness stand, she will likely be removed from the case.
But Mr. Willis’ office said that Mr. Bradley, who testified that the allegations about Mr. Wade and Mr. Willis were “speculative,” had “no motive to lie” after he resigned as Mr. Wade’s lawyer over the sexual assault allegations. He claimed that he was an unreliable witness.
Judge John McAfee said he hoped to rule on whether Willis could continue with his case within the next two weeks.
It was not immediately clear Monday whether the court would resume the hearing to obtain additional evidence.
Representatives for Mr. Willis’ office did not respond to requests for comment.
