The Georgia prosecutor overseeing the election interference case against Donald Trump and nearly 20 co-defendants was reportedly subpoenaed in an ongoing divorce case of a top prosecutor also involved in the case.
Mike Roman, one of Trump's co-defendants in the case, earlier this week accused District Attorney Fani Willis (D) of engaging in an “improper” romantic relationship with special prosecutor Nathan Wade, an outside lawyer whom Willis hired to work on the Trump prosecution. (RELATED: Fani Willis Accused Of Hiring Lover As Key Prosecutor, Court Docs Reveal)
In a court filing first reviewed by The Wall Street Journal, a process server said he showed up at Willis's office in Atlanta on Monday morning with a subpoena seeking her testimony in the Cobb County divorce case of Nathan Wade, a lawyer she hired as a special prosecutor in the Trump case, and his wife, Joycelyn Wade. The process server said he left the subpoena, filed by Joycelyn Wade's lawyer, with Willis's executive assistant.
Roman's lawyer filed court papers later in the day revealing the bombshell accusation, claiming that “sources close” to both Willis and Wade indicated the pair are involved in an “ongoing, personal and romantic relationship,” including going on vacations together.
Trump's legal team have argued Willis should immediately be removed from the case, arguing that the setup amounts to an irreparable conflict of interest because Wade is incentivized to prosecute the case to continue being paid “lucrative amounts.”
Wade was paid nearly $654,000 in legal fees in 2022 and 2023 as he worked on the investigation, county records show.
Ashleigh Merchant, Roman's attorney, said further evidence of the accusation was contained within Wade's divorce case. Those documents are under seal, but Merchant had filed a motion to unseal them, she said.
Trump also demanded the case be dropped over the relationship.
“You had a very big event yesterday as you saw in Georgia where the district attorney is totally compromised. The case has to be dropped,” Trump said after a hearing in Washington, D.C., over presidential immunity arguments in a separate, federal 2020 election interference case against him. “They went after 18 or 20 people. … She was out of her mind. Now it turns out that case is totally compromised.”
“It's illegal. What she did is illegal. So we'll let the state handle that, but what a sad situation it is,” Trump added.
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