Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and Nathan Wade are expected to be subpoenaed after allegations over their financial ties and alleged affair.
Wade was hired as a special prosecutor in her case against former president Donald Trump.
Wade and a former and current law partner will be expected to get a subpoena to testify at a hearing in February relating to allegations of inappropriate financial ties and Willis and Wade’s alleged affair.
Willis is also expected to be subpoenaed next month.
According to Breitbart:
“The Fulton County judge overseeing Willis’s election interference case against Trump called for the February 15 hearing to address claims by Mike Roman, one of Trump’s co-defendants, that Willis and Wade “engaged in an improper” romantic relationship and that she mishandled public money.”
Roman’s attorney told CNN:
“I think the real issue here is not this relationship. I think it’s more about the impropriety of having him on the team and having him present this to the grand jury and the conflict of interest in the appearance of impropriety.”
Roman argued the case should be dismissed due to “conflicts of interest.”
The allegations against Willis and Wade come amid their case against Trump and his codefendants.
Wade repeatedly filed for divorce from his wife just a day after he signed his lucrative contract with Willis.
According to bank records, Wade paid for at least two plane trips for himself and Willis.
Willis also paid Wade an hourly rate much higher than what she paid the state’s best-credential prosecutor on the type of case brought against Trump.
“We’ve got a lot of information. We’ve got a lot of documents and a lot of witnesses,” Roman’s defense attorney Ashleigh Merchant told CNN when asked if she will issue subpoenas for witness testimony at the hearing, scheduled for February 15.
According to a court filing by Mike Roman, there were four explosive allegations in January about Willis’ conduct while prosecuting Trump.
The filing alleges the following:
- Nathan Wade, Willis’s lead prosecutor in the Trump case, had an “improper” relationship with Willis
- Wade’s law firm used funds paid by the county to take Willis on luxury vacations by using potentially fraudulent payments
- Wade was appointed without the required approval by authorities and had little to no prosecutorial experience
- Willis and Wade met twice with President Joe Biden’s White House counsel before indicting Trump in August, raising questions about whether the White House coordinated prosecuting Biden’s 2024 political opponent
Willis also made it clear she wants prison sentences for Trump and his co-defendants.
“We have a long road ahead,” she wrote in a November 2023 email to Trump’s attorneys.
“Long after these folks are in jail, we will still be practicing law.”
While Willis has remained relatively silent regarding the accusations, she described herself as an “imperfect” and “flawed” person during a speech at Big Bethel AME Church earlier this month, suggesting she is the target of racism.
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