Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and Nathan Wade testified under oath that their romantic relationship began after Willis was appointed to indict 19 Republicans for challenging Georgia’s 2020 election results and paid Wade taxpayer funds to assist her. But cellphone data included in a new court filing calls those claims into question.
On Friday, former President Donald Trump’s attorneys submitted a legal filing including purported data “collected from Wade’s cellphone and cellphone tower transmissions.” That data indicates Wade made “at least 35 visits to the Hapeville neighborhood where Fani Willis was living before the district attorney hired him to lead” her get-Trump prosecution, according to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (AJC). The data appears to contradict Wade’s claims in court that “he had visited Willis at her condo in Hapeville no more than 10 times before he was hired in November 2021.”
Willis and Wade maintained under oath last week that their romantic relationship did not begin until spring 2022 — months after Wade was appointed special prosecutor on Nov. 1, 2021 — and lasted until summer 2023. The defendants argue in their filings that the approximately $1 million Willis paid Wade to assist in prosecuting them constitutes a financial conflict of interest that disqualifies the prosecution. The defendants say Wade used substantial portions of the taxpayer money she paid him to take Willis on expensive vacations.
While the two parties also claimed Wade never spent the night at Willis’s Hapeville condo, the data included in Friday’s legal filing appears
