By The FirstFulton County, Georgia DA Fani Willis admitted Friday that she had a romantic relationship with her own prosecutor, but denied any conflict of interest.
From Fox News:
Embattled Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has responded to allegations of an “improper” relationship she had with special prosecutor Nathan Wade, whom she hired to work the case against former President Trump.
According to court documents filed earlier this month by Michael Roman, a Trump co-defendant, Willis, who brought election interference-related charges against Trump, has been having an “improper” affair with Wade, whom she hired to help prosecute the 2024 GOP frontrunner. Roman and his lawyers say the alleged impropriety should disqualify her from the case.
In a court filing Friday, Willis told the superior court that while the allegations against her are “salacious,” they have no “merit.”
Willis claims that while she and Wade “have been professional associates and friends since 2019,” “there was no personal relationship” between her and Wade in November 2021 at the time of Wade’s appointment,” and that Roman and his lawyers “offer no support for their insistence that the exercise of any prosecutorial discretion (i.e., any charging decision or plea recommendation) in this case was impacted by any personal relationship.”
The filing claims that Roman’s motions “attempt to cobble together entirely unremarkable
circumstances of Special Prosecutor Wade’s appointment with completely irrelevant
allegations about his personal family life into a manufactured conflict of interest on the
part of the District Attorney.”
