The American Accountability Foundation filed ethics complaints against Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and her former lover Nathan Wade based on their testimony regarding allegations of an improper affair.
AAF said, “To ensure that the citizens of Fulton County and the State of Georgia understand that the Bar will not countenance any violation of its ethics by those charged with upholding it, we urge you to revoke Ms. Willis’ license to practice law and permanently bar her from practicing law.”
The complaints allege Wade lied under oath about his relationship with Willis, while Willis admitted to keeping campaign funds for personal use.
Fani Willis said, “Cash is fungible. I’ve had cash for years in my house. So for me to tell you the source of where it comes from … when you go to Publix and you buy something and you get fifty dollars and you throw it in there. It’s been my whole life. When I took out a large amount of money during my first campaign, I kept some of the cash of that.”
Specifically, Willis said she withdrew cash from her campaign and kept some without proper receipts.
The foundation argues this violates campaign finance law.
AAF said, “The statute is unambiguous – and the facts are not in dispute – as Ms. Willis described in her testimony, she placed the money that was intended for her campaign into a ‘fungible’ slush fund with other moneys that she would use for various other purposes, including reimbursing her boyfriend for leisure travel.”
“It is unreasonable to believe that a barred attorney running for public office would not have been aware that the strict reporting guidelines of Georgia campaign finance law existed to protect the public’s right to oversee elections and that she had an obligation to scrupulously abide by them,” they continued.
It also alleges Wade lied in divorce proceedings by denying having sexual relations with Willis when they were involved.
The AAF complaints noted, “First it is simply not credible that Mr. Wade did not know that he had sexual relations with Ms. Willis when he replied to the interrogatories above in his divorce case. Put simply, it is clear Mr. Wade knew that he had had sex with Ms. Willis, and he knew that at the time he was still married, and he simply lied in the interrogatories.”
“Whether he was married was not a complicated question. In fact, he was the plaintiff in a divorce case, a case that cannot proceed without the parties being married. As an officer of the court, this is simply unacceptable. It is challenging to think of a more clear-cut example of ‘dishonesty, fraud, deceit or misrepresentation,’” continued AAF.
AAF said, “The Bar owes the profession and the public a duty to guard the practice from charlatans and incompetents. Any simple reading of Mr. Wade’s testimony quickly reveals that he is so grossly unfamiliar with the simple understanding of a legal concept like marriage that the risk he and his incompetence poses to vulnerable members of the public requires his exclusion from the profession.”
The complaints seek to revoke Willis’ law license and permanently bar both from practicing law, arguing they violated ethics rules and Wade demonstrated incompetence. Willis and Wade deny the allegations.
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