Trump co-defendant alleges prosecutors in Georgia case lied about when their relationship started
The legal team for a co-defendant in the Georgia election interference case against former President Donald Trump alleged in a filing Friday that the personal relationship between Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and special prosecutor Nathan Wade began earlier than they acknowledged.
The legal team for a co-defendant in the Georgia election interference case against former President Donald Trump alleged in a filing Friday that the personal relationship between Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and special prosecutor Nathan Wade began earlier than they acknowledged.
“Mr. Roman believes the special prosecutor’s statement in his affidavit that the relationship did not start until 2022 is patently false,” Trump co-defendant Michael Roman’s lawyers wrote in a footnote in Friday’s filing to Judge Scott McAfee.
In a previous filing, Wade said that he and Willis “developed a personal relationship” in 2022. He has said that their personal relationship did not exist when he was hired onto the high-stakes case about allegations that Trump and others were engaged in efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election results in Georgia.
Willis included that affidavit in her filing from last week, in which she stated that “any personal relationship among members of the prosecution team does not amount to a disqualifying conflict of interest or otherwise harm a criminal defendant.”
Roman’s lawyers claimed on Friday that Wade’s former divorce attorney, Terrence Bradley, “will refute” the claim that Wade and Willis “did not have a personal, romantic relationship before Willis appointed Wade as a special prosecutor.”
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