Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is now facing a “special meeting” on March 7 related to two separate ethics complaints filed against her.
This comes as Willis battles allegations she had an affair with Nathan Wade, a special prosecutor whom she hired to lead the interference case against former President Donald Trump.
Context
Willis has found herself at the center of a potential ethics violation related to her alleged affair with Wade. It comes amid Willis’ case against the former president, in which Trump and 18 co-defendants were indicted by a Georgia grand jury in August and face criminal racketeering charges for allegedly attempting to overturn the state’s electoral results in the 2020 election won by Joe Biden.
The allegations Willis faces were first made when one of Trump’s co-defendants in the case, Michael Roman, filed a motion three weeks ago claiming that Wade and Willis were at one point romantically involved during the investigation of Trump, adding that the special prosecutor and district attorney had been “profiting significantly from this prosecution at the expense of the taxpayers.”
Willis and her office face widespread pushback related to the allegations as the 2020 election interference case continues. Trump and his co-defendants have argued that all charges should be dismissed, accusing Wade and Willis of misconduct.
What We Know
The Fulton County Board of Ethics will take up two other ethics complaints against Willis, which will be addressed during a “special meeting” on March 7.
Greg Mantell, founder of the Substack blog Investigative News Service, is said to be the source of one of the complaints that will be addressed in March, along with Steven Kramer’s complaint.
This comes after, in a letter previously seen by Newsweek, Mantell wrote to the Fulton County Board of Ethics in January accusing Willis of several ethics violations concerning Roman’s filing.
He said: “I wish to file a formal ethics complaint against Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis for several violation of the Ethics Code.”
He added he requested Willis’s expense reports in the years 2021, 2022 and 2023, all contracts and payments to Wade in 2021, 2022 and 2023, and records pertaining to $14.6 million in awards for the Department of Justice.
The meeting addressing the complaints will come after last week’s hearing, which presided over whether Willis’ alleged romantic relationship with Wade should result in her removal from the case, an argument pushed by…
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