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Fani Willis Is Going to Pay Big for Violating State Law While Prosecuting Trump

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Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis just got some more horrible news. A judge has ordered her to pay over $54,000 in attorney’s fees and hand over documents her office held in violation of Georgia’s Open Records Act.

Willis withheld important documentation related to the prosecution against President Donald Trump. Ashleigh Merchant, the attorney who filed an open records request to obtain information related to Willis’ inappropriate relationship with another prosecutor she had appointed to Trump’s case, said she had been “completely stonewalled” by Willis’ office in September 2023, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Merchant said she requested about a dozen sets of records from the DA’s office, including non-disclosure agreements employees are required to sign, a list of attorneys hired by Willis since taking office and receipts for the DA’s contract with a New York-based “media monitoring service.”

The ruling, issued Friday by Fulton County Superior Court Judge Rachel Krause, marks a rare win for those seeking access to public records held by government agencies.

Krause determined the DA’s office failed to comply with Georgia’s Open Records Act by withholding public documents and said those failures “were intentional, not done in good faith, and were substantially groundless and vexatious.”

Because the DA’s office lacked justification for denying the records, Willis’ office must pay attorney fees and litigation expenses to Merchant, her husband, John, and the attorney couple’s paralegal, all of whom worked to get the records, the judge ruled.

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Fani Willis Suffers Another Court Loss in Her Scheme to Prosecute Trump

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Fulton County, Georgia, District Attorney Fani Willis has suffered another loss in her legal campaign to prosecute President-elect Donald Trump on her “organized crime” charges.

This after a court already has ruled that she’s off the case because of the impropriety she exhibited by hiring her paramour to work on her case against Trump.

Now a judge has said the Georgia state Senate can issue a subpoena to her as part of its investigation into whether she engaged in misconduct during her lawfare case against Trump. . .

Fulton County Superior Court Judge Shukura Ingram filed the order that instructs Willis she has until Jan. 13 to submit arguments over whether the subpoenas seek legally shielded or confidential information.

A state Senate committee had ordered her earlier to answer questions and produce documents about her campaign against Trump. (Read more from “Fani Willis Suffers Another Court Loss in Her Scheme to Prosecute Trump” HERE)

Attorney Behind Fani Willis Disqualification Expects Trump DOJ to Launch Investigation

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Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is likely to face continued consequences over her failed prosecution of President-elect Donald Trump, the attorney behind the original motion to disqualify her told the Daily Caller News Foundation.

“I would be shocked if she wasn’t investigated by the new Justice Department,” Ashleigh Merchant, who represented Trump co-defendant Mike Roman in Willis’ racketeering case, told the DCNF.

Merchant filed the motion in January, alleging Willis financially benefited from improperly appointing Nathan Wade, with whom she was romantically involved, as special prosecutor, pointing to vacations Wade financed using money earned from his position. In March, Judge Scott McAfee found the relationship created a “significant appearance of impropriety,” though he allowed Willis to remain on the case if Wade stepped aside.

The Georgia Court of Appeals on Thursday ruled that Willis must be disqualified from prosecuting her case against Trump.

“It’s kind of like Christmas came early,” Merchant told the DCNF. (Read more from “Attorney Behind Fani Willis Disqualification Expects Trump DOJ to Launch Investigation” HERE)

Court: Fani Willis Must Turn Over Communications With ‘Get Trump’ Special Counsel, J6 Committee

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Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis must forfeit any and all communications with Special Counsel Jack Smith and House Democrats’ Jan. 6 Committee, a state judge ruled on Tuesday.

In his six-page order, Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney ruled that Willis is “in default” for failing to file court documents responding to a legal challenge brought by Judicial Watch.

The conservative watchdog group filed a lawsuit against Willis in March after the Democrat district attorney denied having any of the records the group sought in an August 2023 open records request. That request aimed to obtain communications between her office and the special counsel and/or the Jan. 6 Committee.

Judicial Watch argued in its lawsuit that Willis’ “representation about not having records responsive to the request is likely false,” citing a December 2023 letter issued to the Fulton County prosecutor by the House Judiciary Committee. The committee indicated that Willis— who indicted Donald Trump and 18 other Republicans last year — “had coordinated [her] politically motivated prosecutions” and “investigative actions” with Smith’s office and the Jan. 6 Committee, respectively.

Despite Willis having multiple opportunities to respond to Judicial Watch’s legal filing, McBurney noted that she “never moved to open default on any basis (not even during the period when she could have opened default as a matter of right), she never paid costs, and she never offered up a meritorious defense.” (Read more from “Court: Fani Willis Must Turn Over Communications With ‘Get Trump’ Special Counsel, J6 Committee” HERE)

Fani Willis Moves to Restrain Former Special Prosecutor’s Testimony Before Congress

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Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is attempting to restrict what her former special prosecutor, Nathan Wade, can tell congressional investigators in Washington this week about the Georgia 2020 election interference case against former President Donald Trump and his allies.

On Monday, the GOP-led House Judiciary Committee released an October 11 letter from Willis stating her office told Wade, who left the RICO case earlier this year after a romance between him and the DA was revealed, about certain restrictions it wanted to place on his closed-door testimony.

Willis wrote that Wade has been informed her office was asserting “all legal protections and privileges related to information that he possesses about ongoing criminal prosecutions” and he was “instructed not to answer any questions that seek to solicit information about his role or underlying evidence” in the 2020 case.

To Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH), Willis said, “I am concerned that your demand for Mr. Wade’s testimony would force him to improperly divulge confidential information that is protected” by the DA’s office. She also raised concerns about Wade being pressed to violate State Bar of Georgia rules governing the conduct of attorneys.

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‘Extremely Unusual’: House Judiciary Committee Unable to Locate Nathan Wade to Testify in Fani Willis Investigation

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The House Judiciary Committee has so far been unable to locate Nathan Wade in order to serve him a subpoena, a spokesperson told the Daily Caller News Foundation.

The committee’s difficulty in serving a subpoena to Wade, whose testimony they are seeking as part of their probe into Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, is “extremely unusual,” spokesperson Russell Dye told the DCNF. After defendants tried to disqualify Willis from the case over her relationship with Wade, a judge ordered Wade in March to step down from his position on the election interference case against former President Donald Trump as a condition of letting Willis remain.

“The Judiciary Committee has served over 100 subpoenas this Congress,” Dye said in a statement to the DCNF. “We have done so, for the most part, without controversy or the need to use the U.S. Marshals.”

“Nathan Wade’s evasion of service is extremely unusual and will require the Committee to spend U.S. tax dollars to locate him,” Dye said.

Spending taxpayer money would be required if the committee needs to hire a private investigator or send a staffer to locate Wade.

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WIN: Appeals Court to Revisit Decision Regarding DA Fani Willis’ Involvement in Trump Case

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In a significant development, a Georgia appellate court has agreed to review a decision allowing Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to continue overseeing a high-profile 2020 election interference case involving former President Donald Trump and his associates, despite concerns regarding her relationship with a subordinate.

The Court of Appeals of the State of Georgia issued a brief order on Wednesday, granting a request from the defense to review a lower-court ruling made in March. The order stipulates that the appellant has ten days to file a notice of appeal.

At the heart of the matter is Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee’s determination that the defendants failed to substantiate a conflict of interest arising from a romantic relationship between Willis and her special prosecutor, Nathan Wade. Although Judge McAfee acknowledged concerns about the “appearance of impropriety,” he permitted Willis to continue leading the case only after Wade resigned, presenting her with the alternative option of stepping down.

Trump and his co-defendants have vehemently argued for Willis’s disqualification, contending that her romantic involvement with Wade tainted the proceedings. Willis, on the other hand, has insisted that there is no basis for a review of the lower-court ruling.

According to reports, Trump and his co-defendants are expected to request a stay of proceedings while the appeal unfolds, following McAfee’s refusal to halt the process. While a trial date is yet to be determined, Willis reportedly aims to conclude proceedings before the 2024 election.

Trump and 18 co-defendants have entered not guilty pleas to multiple charges in the Georgia election case, with four individuals reaching plea deals. As Trump pursues a potential return to the White House, he continues to deny any wrongdoing across various legal battles.

Nathan Wade Makes Absurd Claim About the Moment He and Fani Willis Ended Their Love Affair

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Former Donald Trump prosecutor Nathan Wade made an absurd claim that he and Fani Willis ended their affair the “moment” they realized they were in love with each other — a statement completely at odds with his ex-lover’s version of events.

Speaking to ABC’s “Good Morning America,” Wade claimed he developed feelings for the Fulton County district attorney, who appointed him as special prosecutor to the election fraud case in 2021 “over time.”

“You don’t plan to fall in love,” he told the show, in his first interview since he was made to resign from the case in March.

“You don’t plan to have some relationship in the workplace. You don’t set out to do that. Those things develop organically. They develop over time.

“The minute we had that sobering moment, we discontinued it,” he claimed. (Read more from “Nathan Wade Makes Absurd Claim About the Moment He and Fani Willis Ended Their Love Affair” HERE)

Witness for Fani Willis’ Office Admits to Being ‘So High’ While Testifying: ‘About to Go to Sleep’

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Adrian Bean, a witness for Atlanta District Attorney Fani Willis’s office in a trial of a rapper, admitted in court Tuesday that he was “so high” and “about to go to sleep,” Newsweek reported.

Bean was allegedly the getaway driver for the rapper Jeffrey Williams, whose stage name is Young Thug, and other defendants in an armed robbery, a shooting and a car chase in September 2013, the outlet noted.

Willis’s office indicted Williams in May 2022 on RICO charges and alleged that the rapper was an important affiliate of Young Slime Life (YSL), an Atlanta street gang with ties to the Bloods, the outlet reported.

A video clip by the Law & Crime Network captured the hilarious moment in Bean’s testimony.

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New Book Admits Fani Willis’ Get-Trump Investigation Began With Illegal Recording

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Democrat Fani Willis’ legal troubles extend beyond recent revelations that she deceptively hired her otherwise under-qualified, secret, married lover to run the political prosecution of former President Donald Trump and other Republicans in Georgia. A new book from Mike Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman admits that a widely misunderstood phone call, on which Willis’ political prosecution rests, was illegally recorded. That means the entire prosecution could crumble with defendants having a new avenue to challenge Democrat lawfare.

Find Me the Votes: A Hard-Charging Georgia Prosecutor, a Rogue President, and the Plot to Steal an American Election is a fawning political biography of Willis. For context on the bias of the authors, Isikoff was an original Russia-collusion hoaxer, and his articles to that end were used to secure warrants for the FBI to spy on innocent Republican presidential campaign advisers such as Carter Page.

For years, the media and other Democrats have held up Willis as a brilliant and credible prosecutor of Republicans. The new book suffers from poor timing, with Willis and her lover accused of perjury, subornation of perjury, bribery, and kickbacks related to the prosecution. Willis could be removed from the prosecution as early as this week.

Nevertheless, the book shares interesting details about Willis’ father, John C. Floyd, and his radical past. Described as a “onetime radical activist” who considered the police to be the “enemy” and an “occupying army,” Floyd founded the Black Panther Political Party of Los Angeles and said of it, “Our political philosophy is black nationalism.” He took former Communist Party vice presidential nominee Angela Davis as a lover and lived with her prior to her being placed on the FBI’s Most Wanted list for purchasing the gun used to murder a Marin County, California judge.

Willis, who was raised by her father, worked for Beverly Hills attorney Howard Schmuckler before he was disbarred and also before he was imprisoned for running a fraudulent mortgage rescue company. She worked for another lawyer in Atlanta who was disbarred for tipping off a drug dealer to an impending DEA raid. At that firm, she represented a crack dealer who “turned out to be the male stripper at her bachelorette party” and worked with Keisha Lance Bottoms, a former Atlanta mayor and now a top domestic policy adviser to President Joe Biden. (Read more from “New Book Admits Fani Willis’ Get-Trump Investigation Began With Illegal Recording” HERE)