Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, accused of having a clandestine relationship with the special prosecutor she hired to bring charges against former President Donald Trump in his Georgia election interference case, vowed in a 2020 interview not to would sleep with his staff.
Willis is under fire for allegedly having a secret relationship with Nathan Wade, whom he appointed special prosecutor in the high-profile case in November 2021 for a hefty salary, a day before he filed for divorce from his wife.
“I certainly won’t choose to date people who work under me,” Willis said during an April 2020 appearance on “The Patricia Crayton Show” while campaigning for district attorney.
“We are in a place in society where things happen in people’s relationships; Sometimes, between husbands and wives, there are external relationships. I don’t think that’s what the community is worried about. Although there might be a moral breakdown in that,” she continued.
“I think what really worries citizens is if they choose to have inappropriate contact with employees,” he continued.
“There’s nothing I can say other than it’s distracting, it’s certainly inappropriate for the number one police officer in this state, and it really saddens me,” he said.
Willis added that it would be “very unfortunate if the taxpayers of this community had to pay for any of those lawsuits.”
Fani Willis said in 2020 that he would have no relationship with his staff. Fani Willis/Facebook Willis hired Wade as a special prosecutor in Donald Trump’s election interference case in Georgia. fake images
Willis and Wade were first accused of having an “inappropriate” relationship in a motion filed last week by Michael Roman, one of Trump’s 18 co-defendants in the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act investigation. (RICH) by Willis.
Roman’s filing accused Wade, a private attorney with Atlanta-based Wade & Campbell, of using some of the nearly $654,000 in legal fees paid to him by the District Attorney’s Office to take Willis on lavish trips.
He argued that criminal charges should be dismissed against him because Willis “violated laws regulating the use of public money, suffers irreparable conflicts of interest, and violated his oaths under the Georgia Rules of Professional Conduct.”
Willis and Wade allegedly had a secret relationship. Wade & Campbell Firm Fani Willis and Nathan Wade, right, allegedly took lavish trips together, his ex-wife alleges. fake images
Willis is also accused of hiring Wade even though he was not properly qualified or experienced in handling criminal matters.
Wade’s ex-wife, Joycelyn Wade, alleged in a filing in Cobb County Superior Court on Friday that he attempted to seal their divorce records immediately after he was hired by Willis’ office to keep the breakup secret.
She alleged that her ex-husband never told her that he was working for Willis in the Trump case, or the exorbitant amount of money he was making from the job. She said he was left with “little means of financial support” as he joined the district attorney on trips to California, Florida and the Caribbean.
On Thursday, Willis’ attorneys filed a motion to remove her from filing a Jan. 23 deposition in Wade’s divorce case, claiming she would be unable to offer relevant testimony since their marriage essentially ended in 2017, when Jocylyn allegedly He cheated on her. about Nathan.
Jocylyn’s legal team responded by saying that Willis’ claim about the affair was false and argued that she “was experiencing a deep sense of disconnection in her marriage” due to previous incidents of infidelity by Nathan Wade.
Sources told The Post that the couple had been working together since at least 2019.
The Fulton County Board of Commissioners also said Friday that it had launched an investigation to determine whether Willis misused county funds and “accepted valuable gifts and personal benefits” from Wade. The Atlanta district attorney has until February 2 to respond.
Meanwhile, Wade returned to court today for a hearing on the Georgia election interference case.
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