Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis goes to a Harrison Floyd bond cancellation hearing at the Fulton County Courthouse in Atlanta onNov 21, 2023.
Dennis Byron|Reuters
A Georgia judge on Monday obstructed– in the meantime– a deposition of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis by legal representatives in the divorce of unique district attorney Nathan Wade, whom Willis selected to supervise the criminal election case of previous President Donald Trump.
Cobb County Superior Court Judge Henry Thompson stated he required to hear what Nathan Wade stated in his deposition before figuring out if Willis needs to be deposed in the divorce by Jocelyn Wade’s legal representatives.
“It seems to me that Mr. Wade would be the first and best source of information on what his income has been and how he’s been spending it, and that he would have firsthand knowledge of whether he’s engaged in an extramarital affair,” Thompson stated.
Willis is looking for to obstruct the deposition in the middle of concerns of whether she took part in a romantic relationship with Nathan Wade at the exact same time he and his law office were being paid numerous countless dollars by Fulton County to function as unique counsel in Trump’s criminal case.
Trump is charged with racketeering and other charges associated with his efforts to reverse his loss in Georgia’s 2020 election to President Joe Biden.
Thompson likewise stated he would unseal the Wades’ divorce case, after keeping in mind that treatments for sealing the case from public view were not followed.
One of Trump’s co-defendants in the criminal case declares that Willis and Nathan Wade participated in misbehavior by having “an improper, clandestine personal relationship during the pendency of this case, which has resulted in the special prosecutor, and, in turn, the district attorney, profiting significantly from this prosecution at the expense of the taxpayers.”
Jocelyn Wade, in a court filing, stated that given that her hubby applied for divorce, he has actually taken numerous journeys, and “the evidence is clear that Ms. Willis was an intended travel partner for at least some of these trips as indicated by flights he purchased for her to accompany him.”
“Defendant seeks to depose Ms. Willis in order to determine details surrounding her romantic affair with Plaintiff, as there appears to be no reasonable explanation for their travels apart from a romantic relationship,” the filing stated.
Don’t miss out on these stories from CNBC PRO:
