A judge in Cobb County has unsealed the divorce proceedings of Nathan Wade, a special prosecutor hired by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to work on the Georgia election interference case.
That’s after defendant Michael Roman alleged an improper relationship between Willis and Wade that he claims would disqualify them from prosecuting him.
Included in the newly unsealed filings is a Friday motion by Wade’s wife that included a credit card statement showing plane tickets booked for Wade and Willis to San Francisco and Miami.
But the documents do not appear to contain other evidence that could point to an improper relationship between Willis and Wade. The credit card statement was first reported last week by other publications.
Roman, along with a coalition of media outlets, fought to unseal all of the filings in the ongoing divorce case after Roman’s lawyer, Ashleigh Merchant, argued they would help prove the unsubstantiated relationship.
Roman is asking Fulton Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee to disqualify Willis’s office from handling the election case and to dismiss the charges against him, saying they are tainted by conflicts of interest.
While WABE’s review found little else to suggest an affair in the court docket, the parties in the divorce will no longer be prevented from sharing evidence produced in discovery with reporters or other lawyers.
The judge in the divorce case also stayed an order for Willis to testify, saying without depositions from Wade and his wife, he can’t rule whether Willis has “unique personal knowledge” to contribute.
Willis indirectly acknowledged the controversy when she spoke during Sunday services at Big Bethel AME Church in Atlanta earlier this month.
“God, you forgot to mention that my life and the life of my family would be threatened so regularly, I now think it’s not normal if I don’t have two death threats in a week,” Willis said….
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