According to cellphone data submitted to court Friday, Nathan Wade visited Fani Willis' home at least 35 times before she hired him to be the lead prosecutor in Donald Trump's Georgia election interference case.
Willis had previously claimed that their romantic relationship didn't begin until after Wade was hired into the case, and the filing raises new questions as to the truthfulness of her claims.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that the data seems to contradict testimony from Willis last week, in which she said he had visited her condo in Hapeville no more than 10 times before he was hired in November of 2021. The data also shows that he arrived late at night at her home and left early the next morning, long before she said their romantic relationship began.
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Both Wade and Willis testified that he did not spend the night at her Hapeville condo.
As AJC's report points out, the timeline is relevant because if Willis and Wade were a couple before she hired him, "It raises the prospect that she may have violated at least the spirit of anti-nepotism rules, though Fulton’s policy specifically focuses on family members.
"More importantly, both Willis and Wade have testified under oath that the relationship began in 2022. If defense attorneys can prove that they lied under oath it could constitute perjury."
The filing includes an affidavit from Charles Mittelstadt, a longtime investigator for defense attorneys, who used a subpoena to obtain the data from AT&T, and then used the online tool CellHawk to track Wade's movements.
“CellHawk is considered by law enforcement to be the gold standard in cellphone records analytics,” Mittelstadt said.
