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Fulton County DA called to testify in colleague’s divorce case

2024-01-11 00:00:00.0 独立报-美国政治原网页

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Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis was subpoenaed this week to testify in the divorce case of a colleague with whom she has been accused of having an improper relationship during their prosecution of Donald Trump.

According to a legal filing seen by The Wall Street Journal, Ms Willis was subpoenaed on Monday to testify in the divorce proceedings of Nathan Wade, an attorney she hired as a special prosecutor in Mr Trump’s Georgia election interference case.

The subpoena was served hours before one of Mr Trump’s co-defendants in the Georgia case filed a motion to disqualify Ms Willis from the case and dismiss the indictment against him, alleging she had an “improper, clandestine personal relationship during the pendency of this case.”

The motion, filed by a lawyer representing former Trump campaign official Mike Roman, alleges Ms Willis had potentially committed “an act to defraud the public of honest services” based on her “intentional failure” to disclose to the alleged relationship that she allegedly “personally benefitted from.”

It further alleges the relationship between Ms Willis and Mr Wade resulted in “the special prosecutor, and, in turn, the district attorney, profiting significantly from this prosecution at the expense of the taxpayers.”

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The filing, which contained no hard evidence of the accusation, states that Mr Wade was paid nearly $654,000 in legal fees in 2022 and 2023 as he worked on the investigation, which was a “self-serving arrangement,” according to the motion.

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