Fulton County District Lawyer Fani Willis attends a Harrison Floyd bond revocation listening to on the Fulton County Courthouse in Atlanta on Nov. 21, 2023.
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A Georgia decide on Monday blocked — for now — a deposition of Fulton County District Lawyer Fani Willis by legal professionals within the divorce of particular prosecutor Nathan Wade, whom Willis appointed to supervise the prison election case of former President Donald Trump.
Cobb County Superior Courtroom Choose Henry Thompson mentioned he wanted to listen to what Nathan Wade mentioned in his deposition earlier than figuring out if Willis must be deposed within the divorce by Jocelyn Wade’s legal professionals.
“It appears to me that Mr. Wade could be the primary and greatest supply of data on what his revenue has been and the way he is been spending it, and that he would have firsthand information of whether or not he is engaged in an extramarital affair,” Thompson mentioned.
Willis is searching for to dam the deposition amid questions of whether or not she engaged in a romantic relationship with Nathan Wade on the similar time he and his legislation agency had been being paid a whole bunch of 1000’s of {dollars} by Fulton County to behave as particular counsel in Trump’s prison case.
Trump is charged with racketeering and different costs associated to his efforts to undo his loss in Georgia’s 2020 election to President Joe Biden.
Thompson additionally mentioned he would unseal the Wades’ divorce case, after noting that procedures for sealing the case from public view weren’t adopted.
Certainly one of Trump’s co-defendants within the prison case alleges that Willis and Nathan Wade engaged in misconduct by having “an improper, clandestine private relationship throughout the pendency of this case, which has resulted within the particular prosecutor, and, in flip, the district legal professional, profiting considerably from this prosecution on the expense of the taxpayers.”
Jocelyn Wade, in a court docket submitting, mentioned that since her husband filed for divorce, he has taken a number of journeys, and “the proof is obvious that Ms. Willis was an supposed journey companion for at the very least a few of these journeys as indicated by flights he bought for her to accompany him.”
“Defendant seeks to depose Ms. Willis as a way to decide particulars surrounding her romantic affair with Plaintiff, as there seems to be no cheap rationalization for his or her travels other than a romantic relationship,” the submitting mentioned.
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