ATLANTA (WANF/Gray News) – Fulton County, Georgia, District Attorney Fani Willis has made international headlines in her unrelenting investigation and subsequent indictment of former President Donald Trump.
But since January, Willis has been making news around the world for her now-acknowledged personal relationship she has with a special prosecutor she hired to assist in her prosecution of Trump.
Thursday, Willis and special prosecutor Nathan Wade may learn if they’ll be allowed to continue their indictment of the man who will likely be the Republican nominee for president this year.
Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee, who is overseeing one of American judicial history’s most politically and socially complex cases, is holding a hearing to possibly decide whether Willis and Wade should be disqualified from further pursuing their indictment.
McAfee will hear evidence from prosecutors and defense attorneys to determine if Wade benefitted personally and financially from the couple’s arrangement.
Willis is the locally elected district attorney who issued dozens of indictments in August 2023 accusing Trump and his allies of trying to overturn Georgia’s 2020 election results.
But in early January, an explosive court filing by Michael Roman, one of Trump’s co-defendants, and his attorney, Ashleigh Merchant, accused Willis and special prosecutor Nathan Wade of having a romantic relationship.
Roman is a former White House aide who served as the director of Trump’s election day operations. Prosecutors allege Roman was involved in efforts to put forth a set of fake electors after the 2020 election, a charge to which Roman has pleaded not guilty.
Read the allegations of misconduct against Fulton County DA Fani Willis
Roman’s court filing claims Willis and Wade took lavish vacations together and that Wade used part of his salary from the district attorney’s office to travel with Willis. Merchant also claims to have discovered “outside of court…
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