Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who is accused of having a clandestine relationship with the special prosecutor she hired to bring charges against former President Donald Trump in his Georgia election interference case, promised in a 2020 interview that she would not sleep with her staffers.
Willis is under fire for allegedly having a secret relationship with Nathan Wade, whom she appointed as a special prosecutor in the high-profile case in November 2021 for a hefty salary — a day before he filed for divorce from his wife.
“I will certainly not be choosing to date people that work under me,” Willis said during an April 2020 appearance on “The Patricia Crayton Show” while campaigning for district attorney.
“We are at a place in society where things happen in people’s relationships — husbands and wives sometimes, there are outside relationships. I don’t think that that’s what the community is concerned about. Although there might be a moral breaking in that,” she continued.
“I think that what citizens are really, really concerned about is if you chose to have inappropriate contact with employees,” she continued.
“There’s nothing I can say on it other than that it is distracting, it is certainly inappropriate for the No. 1 law officer in this state, and it really really saddens me,” she said.
Willis added it would be “very unfortunate if the taxpayers of this community have to pay for any of those lawsuits.”
Willis and Wade were first accused of having an “improper” relationship in a motion filed last week by Michael Roman, one of Trump’s 18 co-defendants in Willis’ Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act probe.
Roman’s filing accused Wade — a private attorney with Atlanta-based Wade & Campbell — of using some of the nearly $654,000 in legal fees he was paid by the DA’s Office to take Willis on lavish trips.
He argued the criminal charges should be dismissed against him as Willis “violated laws regulating the use of public monies, suffer from irreparable conflicts of interest, and have violated their oaths of office under the Georgia Rules of Professional Conduct.”
Willis is also accused of hiring Wade despite him not being properly qualified or experienced in handling criminal matters.
Wade’s ex-wife, Joycelyn Wade, alleged in a filing with the Cobb County Superior Court on Friday that he tried to have their divorce records sealed immediately after he was hired by Willis’ office to keep the breakup under wraps.
She alleged that her former husband never told her that he was working for Willis on the Trump case — or the exorbitant amount of money he was making from the gig. She said he was left with “little means of financial support” while joining the DA on trips to California, Florida and the Caribbean.
On Thursday, attorneys for Willis filed a motion to get her out of sitting for a Jan. 23 deposition in the Wade divorce case, claiming she wouldn’t be able to offer relevant testimony since their marriage essentially ended in 2017, when Jocylyn allegedly cheated on Nathan.
Jocylyn’s legal team responded by saying that Willis’ assertion of the affair was false, and argued that she “was experiencing a profound sense of disconnection in her marriage” due to earlier incidents of infidelity by Nathan Wade.
Sources told The Post the pair had been working together since at least 2019.