Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis had an “improper” and “clandestine” relationship with the married special prosecutor who helped secure the Georgia grand jury indictment against former President Donald Trump, a co-defendant in the interference case alleged election on Monday.
The explosive court filing by former Trump 2020 campaign official Michael Roman argues that Willis should be disqualified from the case and charges against him dropped because “the district attorney decided to name his romantic partner, who in all relevant time for this prosecution has been a married man”, to the case.
Roman maintains that Nathan Wade, a private attorney with the Atlanta-based firm Wade & Campbell, used part of the nearly $654,000 in legal fees paid to him by the Fulton County prosecutor’s office for his work on the Trump case to take Willis to luxuries. vacation to “Napa Valley, California, Florida and the Caribbean.”
Former Trump campaign official Michael Roman said Fulton County Prosecutor Fani Willis (above) should be disqualified from the case and charges against her dropped over her alleged undisclosed relationship with the special counsel . AP
“Mr. Roman…asks the Court for an order disqualifying the district attorney, her office, and the special prosecutor from further prosecuting the present matter on the grounds that the district attorney and special prosecutor have been involved in “an inappropriate and clandestine personal relationship during the prosecution of this case, which has resulted in the special prosecutor and, in turn, the district attorney significantly benefiting from this prosecution at the expense of taxpayers,” the filing states. 127 pages.
“Accordingly, the district attorney and special counsel have violated laws regulating the use of public money, suffer irreparable conflicts of interest, and have violated their oaths under the Georgia Rules of Professional Conduct and should be disqualified from prosecuting this matter. . ” Keep going.
Roman’s filing states that “sources close to both the special prosecutor and the district attorney” have confirmed that Willis and Wade had an ongoing affair, and that Wade filed for divorce in Cobb County, Georgia, “one day after his first contract with Willis. “started” in November 2021.
“In addition, the district attorney and the special prosecutor have been seen together privately (in a personal relationship) in and around the Atlanta area and are believed to have cohabited in some capacity in a location that neither of them owned. ” the filing alleges.
The court filing alleges that Nathan Wade used money he was paid by the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office for his work on the Trump case to pay for vacations with Willis. Signature Wade & Campbell
The motion argues that Willis’s failure to disclose her alleged relationship with Wade while paying her for her work on the Trump case with funds she allegedly used for her vacation from the district attorney could amount to honest services fraud, as well as to “a determinative act that could result in a RICO charge against the district attorney and the special prosecutor.”
Trump, 77, and Roman were charged with racketeering in Willis’ case against them and 17 other co-defendants under Georgia’s Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act.
Roman served as director of Election Day operations for Trump’s 2020 re-election campaign.
Roman was indicted on seven felonies last August by the Georgia grand jury convened by Willis. Fulton County
In the wake of the former president’s 2020 loss, Roman reportedly joined an effort to introduce slates of pro-Trump “fake electors” to reject President-elect Joe Biden’s victories in key states such as Arizona, Georgia, Michigan and Nevada.
He was indicted on seven felonies last August by the Georgia grand jury convened by Willis.
Wade and the Fulton County prosecutor’s office did not immediately respond to The Post’s requests for comment.
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