Tag: Georgia

Georgia Court Considers Booting Fani Willis From Trump Case

Nathan Wade, the special prosecutor in the Georgia racketeering case against former President Donald Trump, testified Thursday that he was reimbursed with cash for vacations he took with his boss, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis—with whom he admitted having an affair.  “It was cash,” Wade said. “She didn’t give me any checks.” In a […]

Georgia judge says DA Fani Willis could be ejected from Trump case if a financial conflict exists

An Atlanta-based judge says Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis could be disqualified from the election subversion case against former President Donald Trump and 18 co-defendants, though only if she benefited financially from her relationship with a special prosecutor assigned to the investigation. Judge Scott McAfee will hear testimony on Thursday from persons with purported […]

Georgia Republicans deny Fani Willis inquiry is a ‘witch hunt,’ but Democrats doubt good faith

ATLANTA — The Republican leading a specially-appointed Georgia state Senate committee that’s supposed to investigate whether Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis committed misconduct proclaimed repeatedly Friday during the panel’s first meeting that he seeks just the facts, but the lead Democrat begrudgingly serving on the panel said she doubts the group can overcome its […]

Trump election case unaffected in Fulton County, Georgia, ‘cybersecurity incident,’ officials say

ATLANTA — Officials said court and other systems in Georgia’s most populous county were hacked over the weekend, interrupting routine operations, but the district attorney’s office said the racketeering case against former President Donald Trump is unaffected. Fulton County, which includes most of Atlanta, was experiencing a “widespread system outage” from a “cybersecurity incident,” county […]