Credit Card Statements Suggest Prosecutors in Trump Case Traveled Together – The New York Times
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Records included in a court filing follow claims that Fani T. Willis had begun a relationship with Nathan Wade before hiring him to help lead the Trump case.
Reporting from Atlanta
The estranged wife of a special prosecutor accused of having a romantic relationship with Fani T. Willis, the Atlanta district attorney who hired him, offered evidence on Friday that Ms. Willis accompanied him on trips unrelated to their work: leading the Georgia case against former President Donald J. Trump.
A court filing from Joycelyn Wade, who is in divorce proceedings with the prosecutor, Nathan J. Wade, included what it said were statements for a credit card account belonging to Mr. Wade. The statements showed that he bought plane tickets for himself and Ms. Willis, including tickets to San Francisco from Atlanta purchased on April 25, 2023, and to Miami from Atlanta purchased on Oct. 4, 2022.
The release of the credit card statements follows a motion filed last week by Michael Roman, one of Mr. Trump’s 14 co-defendants in the Georgia case. That motion, which did not include any proof, claimed that Ms. Willis was having a romantic relationship with Mr. Wade that began before she hired him in 2021 to manage the high-profile case. The motion also stated that Mr. Wade, who has been paid more than $650,000 by the district attorney’s office, paid for vacations with Ms. Willis.
The motion argued that Ms. Willis and Mr. Wade had violated state rules of professional conduct, as well as local and federal law, and had created a conflict of interest that should result in both of them, and Ms. Willis’s office, being removed from the case.
The credit card statements appear to give weight to some of the claims in Mr. Roman’s motion, which said that Mr. Wade and Ms. Willis “have traveled personally together to such places as Napa Valley, Florida and the Caribbean,” and that Mr. Wade “has purchased tickets for both of them to travel on both the Norwegian and Royal Caribbean cruise lines.”
Adding to the scrutiny of the prosecutors, the chairman of the audit committee of the Fulton County board of commissioners sent a letter to Ms. Willis on Friday demanding that she turn over information about payments to special prosecutors and their professional experience.
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