A judge ordered the unsealing of court records in the ongoing divorce proceedings of the attorney who was hired by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to prosecute former President Donald Trump on state RICO charges before allegations of a secret romance emerged earlier this month.
Monday’s ruling by Cobb County Superior Court Judge Henry Thompson granted Willis a small reprieve as she will temporarily avoid having to testify in the divorce case.
Thompson’s decision to temporarily stay the subpoena came during an emergency hearing to determine whether Willis was obligated to testify this week in the divorce case of special prosecutor Nathan Wade and his estranged wife, Joycelyn Wade.
In his order, Judge Thompson insisted that Nathan Wade should testify first before deciding if Willis has any pertinent information to add that would require her to take the stand under oath.
He set an evidence hearing for Jan. 31 that will settle the matter.
Thompson’s decision to unseal the divorce case will, however, immediately expose any improper connections between Willis and Wade.
Meanwhile, Joycelyn Wade submitted bank statements to the court on Monday showing her husband had purchased airline tickets, presumably as proof of an improper relationship — an allegation that first surfaced in a Jan. 8 motion filed by former Republican campaign aide Michael Roman, who is one of more than a dozen co-defendants facing criminal charges alongside the former president.
Separately, a video emerged Monday of an interview Willis gave in 2020 before she took over as Fulton County’s top prosecutor, in which she vowed to run a tight ship and suggested she would fire anyone on her staff who became part of an inappropriate relationship on the job.
“I certainly will not be choosing people to date that work under me, let me just say that,” Willis said during the appearance on a progressive news program in Atlanta nearly four years…
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