Fani Willis forced to testify in divorce proceedings of top prosecutor in the Trump case — her alleged lover

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis' bad month is set to get a whole lot worse. The Black Panther's daughter has been subpoenaed to testify in her alleged lover's divorce case.

Willis was accused in a Monday court filing of having "an improper, clandestine personal relationship" with Nathan Wade, a married man whom she ultimately appointed top prosecutor in former President Donald Trump's Georgia election interference case.

The motion, filed on behalf of Michael Roman, a former Trump campaign official who is a co-defendant in Trump's case, accused the Democratic DA of various potentially criminal improprieties and stressed the need for both Willis and Wade to be disqualified from further prosecuting the case.

This would hardly be Willis' first disqualification in recent years, having also been barred in 2022 from investigating Georgia's Republican lieutenant governor, Burt Jones.

The Wall Street Journal reported that just prior to the filing of the damning motion, Willis was also subpoenaed to testify in the Cobb County divorce case for Wade, which the Washington Post indicated has turned sour.

According to a court filing reviewed by the Journal, a process server turned up at Willis' Atlanta office Monday morning with a subpoena filed by the lawyer of Wade's estranged wife, Joycelyn Wade. The process server reportedly left the subpoena with Willis' executive assistant.

The Journal indicated that Willis' office had yet to file a response as of Tuesday afternoon and that neither Nathan Wade nor his estranged wife had responded to requests for comment.

Willis hired Wade in November 2021 without the approval of the Fulton County Board of Commissioners as required by law, according to the Monday motion filed on behalf of Roman.

Willis said in a 2022 interview that she chose Wade because she needed "somebody I can go off on, and they can, like, wipe off their wounds and we can get back to work," reported the New York Times.

Nathan Wade apparently filed for divorce one day after starting the contract position.

Wade, leading the case against Trump in Georgia, was formerly a prosecutor in Cobb County, where he never prosecuted a felony case, according to the motion to disqualify. Newsweek noted that Wade ran three times to become a judge in Cobb County Superior Court between 2012 and 2016 and failed in all three instances. It appears he settled for prosecuting misdemeanors and traffic citations in Marietta, Georgia, from 2011 to 2021.

The motion claims that "sources close to both the special prosecutor and the district attorney have confirmed they had an ongoing, personal relationship during the pendency of the special prosecutor's divorce proceedings." The Monday motion further alleges that "according to these sources, the personal relationship between [Willis] and [Wade] began before this prosecution was initiated and before the district attorney appointed the special prosecutor."

Willis and Wade are alleged to have gone on multiple luxurious vacations together at the married man's expense. The motion suggests this arrangement was especially problematic as Wade allegedly used Fulton County funds received by his law firm to pay for these trips — to Napa Valley and Florida as well as to the Caribbean. To complicate matters further, Willis authorizes Wade's compensation.

Wade has reportedly been paid over $650,000 in legal fees since January 2022.

"Wade is being paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to prosecute this case on her behalf," said the motion. "In turn, Wade is taking Willis on, and paying for vacations across the world with money he is being paid by the Fulton County taxpayers and authorized solely by Willis."

The motion further alleged that Willis' "apparent intentional failure to disclose her conflict of interest to Fulton County and the Court, combined with her decision to employ the special prosecutor based on her own personal interests may well be an act to defraud the public of honest services since the district attorney 'personally benefitted from an undisclosed conflict of interest.'"

While the Atlanta Journal-Constitution noted there is no definitive proof in the Roman motion of the affair besides the assertions by unnamed sources, Roman's lawyer, Ashleigh Merchant, indicated she found something of interest when reviewing the case file in Wade's ongoing divorce proceedings.

Merchant made copies of documents from the divorce case said to contain proof that Wade and Willis traveled together but noted she must wait for a judge to unseal the case before sharing the information.

The Journal indicated that as of Tuesday, Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee, overseeing Roman's case, had yet to schedule a hearing on Roman's motion.

Andrea Hastings, a lawyer for Wade's estranged wife, indicated the subpoena requests that Willis testify at a deposition on Jan. 23, reported the Times.

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