Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis attends a Harrison Floyd bond revocation listening to, on the Fulton County Courthouse in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. November 21, 2023.
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A Georgia decide on Monday blocked — for now — a deposition of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis by attorneys in the divorce of particular prosecutor Nathan Wade, whom Willis appointed to supervise the legal election case of former President Donald Trump.
Cobb County Superior Court Judge Henry Thompson stated he wanted to listen to what Nathan Wade stated in his deposition earlier than figuring out if Willis must be deposed in the divorce by Jocelyn Wade’s attorneys.
“It appears to me that Mr. Wade could be the primary and greatest supply of info on what his revenue has been and the way he is been spending it, and that he would have firsthand data of whether or not he is engaged in an extramarital affair,” Thompson stated.
Willis is looking for to dam the deposition amid questions of whether or not she engaged in a romantic relationship with Nathan Wade on the identical time he and his regulation agency have been being paid lots of of hundreds of {dollars} by Fulton County to behave as particular counsel in Trump’s legal 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 Monday stated he would unseal the Wades’ divorce case, after noting that procedures for sealing the case from public view weren’t adopted.
One of Trump’s co-defendants in the legal case alleges that Willis and Nathan Wade engaged in misconduct by having “engaged in an improper, clandestine private relationship in the course of the pendency of this case, which has resulted in the particular prosecutor, and, in flip, the district lawyer, profiting considerably from this prosecution on the expense of the taxpayers.”
Jocelyn Wade, in a court docket submitting, stated that since her husband filed for divorce he has taken a number of journeys, and “the proof is evident that Ms. Willis was an supposed journey companion for at the very least some of these journeys as indicated by flights he bought for her to accompany him.”
“Defendant seeks to depose Ms. Willis in order to find out particulars surrounding her romantic affair with Plaintiff, as there seems to be no affordable clarification for his or her travels other than a romantic relationship,” the submitting stated.
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