Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis admitted to a personal relationship with Nathan Wade, the special prosecutor for the case against Donald Trump.
Allegations have been made to remove Willis and Wade from the case, including claims of conflict of interest and improper benefits.
Willis faced criticism for questioning the treatment of Wade in comparison to her other special prosecutors.
“All the causes of the disqualification are self-inflicted blows,” the motion states.
“The obvious intent of her remarks was to inject and infect the jury pool in Fulton County with unfounded allegations that anyone who dares question her or Mr. Wade’s conduct must have done so for racist purposes,” the motion says. “These comments constitute prosecutorial and forensic misconduct and warrant her removal and that of her office from the prosecution of this case.”
“A co-defendant of former President Donald Trump alleged in a Jan. 8 motion that Willis improperly benefited from awarding Wade a lucrative contract when he took her on vacations using money he earned from his position, claiming this was grounds to disqualify Willis and dismiss the case. Willis responded in a 176-page filing Friday by arguing that their relationship does not represent a conflict of interest and never provided her with any financial benefit,” the report stated.
“While the allegations raised in the various motions are salacious and garnered the media attention they were designed to obtain, none provide this Court with any basis upon which to order the relief they seek,” her office stated.
“Roman’s motion wildly speculates that District Attorney Willis somehow benefited financially from the investigation and prosecution of this criminal case, but provides no support to justify that conclusion,” her office added. “To be absolutely clear, the personal relationship between Special Prosecutor Wade and District Attorney Willis has never involved direct or indirect financial benefit to District Attorney Willis.”
“While the DA admits to an intimate relationship with her employee, Special Assistant DA Wade, she fails to provide full transparency and necessary financial details,” attorney Steve Sadow said. “Indeed, she says absolutely nothing about the so-called ‘coincidence’ of Wade filing for divorce the day after the DA hired him!”
Another scandal involves leaked audio of a former employee warning Willis about misuse of federal funds, leading to the employee’s subsequent firing.
“He wanted to do things with grants that were impossible, and I kept telling him, like, ‘We can’t do that,’” whistleblower Amanda Timpson said in 2021. “He told everybody … ‘We’re going to get MacBooks, we’re going to get swag, we’re going to use it for travel.’ I said, ‘You cannot do that. It’s a very, very specific grant.’”
“I respect that is your assessment,” Willis said. “And I’m not saying that your assessment is wrong.”
Timpson’s subsequent firing has raised concerns and legal challenges regarding Willis’s conduct and management of her office.
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