Fani Willis admits to relationship with lead prosecutor — but denies wrongdoing

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis admitted to engaging in a personal relationship with the special prosecutor she appointed to lead her election subversion case against Donald Trump.

But the district attorney denied her relationship with lead investigator Nathan Wade had tainted the case in a 176-page filing that called allegations by Trump's co-defendant Mike Roman “meritless” and “salacious," and she asked a judge to dismiss motions by the former president and other defendants seeking to disqualify her, reported the Washington Post.

Neither Willis nor Wade had directly addressed the allegations of their relationship until the filing, which comes ahead of the Feb. 15 hearing scheduled by Fulton County Superior Court judge Scott McAfee on the matter.

Roman's attorneys say the district attorney was engaged in a “personal, romantic relationship” with Wade, whose law firm has been paid more than $653,000 by Willis’ office since he was hired as an outside prosecutor in November 2021.

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Bank records made public in Wade's divorce case show he purchased airline tickets for himself and Willis to Aruba in October 2022 and to San Francisco in April 2023, although it's not clear whether Willis reimbursed him or went on the trips.

The Trump co-defendant claims Willis may have broken the law by hiring Wade and then allowing him to pay for unrelated "vacations around the world," and Roman's filing calls for both prosecutors to be disqualified and charges against him to be dismissed.