Fulton County committee chairman asks Fani Willis if she ‘misused’ funds

Published January 19, 2024 9:42pm ET



The chairman of the Fulton County Audit Committee is demanding that District Attorney Fani Willis, who is leading the Georgia election interference case against former President Donald Trump, respond to allegations that she “misused” funds by taking vacations financed by her own special prosecutor on the case.

Fulton County Commissioner Bob Ellis, the chairman of the county’s audit committee, sent a letter to Willis Friday evening asking whether she engaged in a “romantic relationship” with special prosecutor Nathan Wade, “misused” county funds, and “accepted valuable gifts and personal benefits from a contractor/recipient of County funds.”

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis (center) and members of her team watch as potential jurors are excused during May 2022 proceedings in Fulton County, Georgia, to look into the actions of former President Donald Trump and his supporters who tried to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis (center) and members of her team watch as potential jurors are excused during May 2022 proceedings in Fulton County, Georgia, to look into the actions of former President Donald Trump and his supporters who tried to overturn the results of the 2020 election. | (AP Photo/Ben Gray)

“These allegations involve your decision to appoint Nathan Wade to serve as a special prosecutor in the matter in which former President Trump is a co-defendant. Mr. Wade is alleged to (1) lack relevant prosecutorial experience in a case of this type and complexity, (2) have paid for your portion of multiple instances of joint leisure travel, and (3) be in a romantic relationship with you that was not disclosed to the court or to the parties in the case,” Ellis wrote.

Ellis cited credit card statements from a leaked filing in Wade’s open divorce case showing the special prosecutor purchased a pair of airline tickets which included Willis’s name. The transactional records, part of the sealed divorce case in the Cobb County Superior Court, coincide with allegations in a recent motion made by one of Trump’s co-defendants, Mike Roman, that claimed Willis improperly benefitted from Wade’s contract by joining him on several vacations.

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