Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, currently under scrutiny, has alleged that the wife of the special prosecutor she appointed, with whom she is purportedly involved romantically, is "interfering" in her case against President Trump and "conspiring" with one of his co-defendants.
In a legal document, Willis asserted that Joycelyn Wade, wife of Nathan Wade, "conspired" with Mike Roman to have charges against him dropped, as reported by UPI news. The Wades have been married for 26 years.
A Georgia judge on Thursday granted Willis until February 2 to officially respond to accusations of an affair with Nathan Wade, the attorney she appointed as a special prosecutor in the case of alleged election fraud against former President Donald Trump and 14 purported co-conspirators.
Roman, a 2020 Trump campaign worker, was the defendant who alleged the affair between the district attorney and requested Willis be disqualified from the case and the charges against him dismissed in a court filing.
Willis, in retaliation, is now contending that Wade's wife and Roman are plotting to undermine the district attorney ahead of the Trump trial.
Cinque Axam, Willis' attorney, has requested a judge to nullify a subpoena that mandated Willis to testify in a pretrial deposition in the divorce case. The claim was that Wade's wife "had utilized the civil discovery process 'to annoy, embarrass and oppress Willis."
In a court filing, her attorney declared that Willis cannot provide unique personal knowledge of any matter that is relevant to Wades divorce as the couple agreed their marriage was irretrievably broken, a legal conclusion that indicates that there is no hope for reconciliation.
Willis' attorney alleged that the timing of the case filings appeared "'conspicuously coordinated' with Roman as Willis was served a subpoena the same day Roman's filing was made public and his attorney moved to unseal the divorce case," according to Roman.
Judge Scott McAfee, presiding over Willis case against Trump and his co-defendants for allegedly attempting to overturn the 2020 election, ordered the district attorney to submit a written response to the allegations by February 2.
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