Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis received a subpoena to testify in the ongoing divorce proceedings of her handpicked prosecutor as accusations of a secret romance between them threatened to upend the Georgia election interference case against former President Donald Trump.
The subpoena was issued to compel Willis to testify in the divorce proceedings for independent special prosecutor Nathan Wade, whom Willis hired in late 2021 to prosecute Trump under Georgia’s Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations law on 13 criminal counts for his efforts to overturn the state’s 2020 election result.
Last August, Trump pleaded not guilty to the charges, a historic moment marked by the dramatic mugshot taken as the former commander-in-chief surrendered at the Fulton County Jail.
The subpoena comes to light days after Michael Roman — one of more than a dozen co-defendants in the sprawling RICO case — filed the legal challenge to dismiss the charges, claiming Willis and Wade are involved in an extraordinary love affair behind the scenes, constituting potential ethical and criminal violations.
Willis “violated her own county’s ethical standards and created an impermissible conflict of interest,” the motion claims, describing the relationship as “improper” and “clandestine.”
So far, Willis has not responded to the salacious allegations in Roman’s filing, which claim the district attorney enriched herself through the ongoing secret relationship with Wade.
Earlier this week, Willis spokesperson Pallavi Bailey told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution that the DA would respond to the allegations later “through appropriate court filings.”
The petition, combined with the subpoena in Wade’s divorce, has introduced two major plot twists in the criminal case against Trump in a matter of a week and set up a potential pitfall in the historic prosecution with the first vote of the 2024 primary season only days…
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