Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has received so many threats against her life over the past three years that she has had to move “something like four times,” according to her father, retired attorney John Floyd III. He said that he intentionally did not learn where his daughter had moved in order to help … Read more
ATLANTA (AP) — Should District Attorney Fani Willis be removed from the Georgia election interference case against former President Donald Trump because of her personal relationship with a special prosecutor? Lawyers were set to battle over the question during a hearing in Atlanta on Thursday. Willis, the DA for Georgia’s Fulton County, hired outside lawyer … Read more
Georgia’s Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis admitted in a court filing Friday that she had a “personal relationship” with a prosecutor she appointed to oversee her office’s election interference case against former President Donald Trump. Willis denies in the 176-page filing that her relationship with the prosecutor, Nathan Wade, had any impact on the … Read more
A prosecutor working on the Georgia 2020 election interference case against Donald Trump and others, who was accused of having an inappropriate relationship with Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, reached a temporary agreement with his estranged wife on Tuesday in their divorce case, the judge announced. This removes the need for Nathan Wade to … Read more
ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia House members passed a bill Monday to revive a commission with powers to discipline and remove prosecutors, a move Democrats warn is aimed at disrupting Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’ prosecution of former President Donald Trump. The House voted 95-75 along party lines for House Bill 881, sending it to … Read more
Donald Trump has joined an existing legal effort to disqualify Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from the Georgia election interference case against the former president and his 18 co-defendants, accusing her of having an improper romantic relationship and injecting “racial animus” into the probe. In a Thursday complaint, Trump’s legal team accused Willis of … Read more
ATLANTA (AP) — Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis hired attorney Nathan Wade to lead the Georgia prosecution of Donald Trump and 18 others over efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Now, allegations of a romantic relationship between Willis and Wade are raising questions about his past work and qualifications and threaten to taint one … Read more
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis made her first public comments on Sunday since a co-defendant of former President Donald Trump alleged she had an inappropriate relationship with a special prosecutor she hired to oversee the case. The defendant, former Trump campaign staffer Michael Roman, is one of 19 people charged in Willis’ sweeping election … Read more
Allegations against Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who is leading the prosecution of Donald Trump in Atlanta, seem unlikely to wholly derail the attempt in Georgia to hold the former president accountable for his attempt to overturn the 2020 election but have handed him additional grist for his grievance-based politics and could certainly delay … Read more
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis on Thursday did not spell out whether former President Donald Trump would face jail time over his efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election result in Georgia, but said “no one gets a special break because of their status.” During a holiday toy giveaway event also attended by former … Read more
