Fulton County Board of Commissioner Bob Ellis has launched an investigation into District Attorney Fani Willis over allegations of her inappropriate relationship with a special prosecutor she hired for the case into former president Donald Trump’s alleged ‘election interference.’
In a statement, Ellis said:
“Under no circumstances should an elected official contract with or hire someone who they are in a romantic relationship with.”
“Accepting favors and extravagant gifts from such contractors should also be considered improper,” he added.
Ellis wrote in a letter to Willis on Friday:
As the Chair of the Fulton County Audit Committee, I must reasonably inquire about allegations contained in a recent court filing asserting that you misused County funds and accepted valuable gifts and personal benefits from a contractor/recipient of County funds.
These allegations involve your decision to appoint Nathan Wade to serve as a special prosecutor in the matter in which former President Trump is a co-defendant. Mr. Wade is alleged to (1) lack relevant prosecutorial experience in a case of this type and complexity, (2) have paid for your portion of multiple instances of joint leisure travel, and (3) be in a romantic relationship with you that was not disclosed to the court or the parties in the case.
Separate from any potential inquiry by the State of Georgia, this situation requires confirmation of whether County funds provided for the operation of your office and its prosecutorial function were used in an appropriate manner, and whether any payments of County funds to Mr. Wade were converted to your personal gain in the form of subsidized travel or other gifts.
Ellis requested Willis provide information to a list of requests for documents by February 2, including work expenses submitted by Wade and payments to him.
The request came just days after an attorney for Wade’s wife, Joycelyn Wade, submitted a filing related to her and Wade’s divorce case, showing Wade purchased airplane tickets for himself and Willis for two trips to Miami and San Francisco.
The filing claimed they traveled to Belize, Panama, and Australia:
Since Plaintiff filed for divorce, he has taken trips to San Francisco and Napa Valley, to Florida and even gone on Caribbean cruises, enjoyed a trip to Belize, another to the country of Panama and even just last month took a trip to Australia. The evidence is clear that Ms. Willis was an intended travel partner for at least some of these trips as indicated by flights he purchased for her to accompany him.
Just a day after Willis hired Wade on November 2, 2021, he filed for divorce from his wife.
Wade was paid over $600,000, according to a legal filing by attorneys for Michael Roman.
Before Trump’s indictment, Wade had eight-hour meetings with Biden administration officials.
“The Washington Post, New York Times will never investigate this,” WOR talk-radio host Mark Simone told Fox Business host Larry Kudlow.
Breitbart reported: “Willis has not denied the relationship, and instead has suggested the allegations stemmed from racism and has even blamed Wade’s wife for trying to seek her testimony and obstruct her case against Trump. Wade’s wife’s attorney on Friday said she was not trying to obstruct the case, but instead to seek information “relevant to the equitable division of the marital estate, dissipation of marital assets, and the Plaintiff’s capacity to provide spousal support.”
A Cobb Country judge has set a Monday 11:30 a.m. Eastern emergency hearing to hear arguments on Willis’s efforts to block a subpoena from Wade’s wife’s attorney and whether or not to unseal divorce records in the case, NBC News reported.“
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