Attorneys for Michael Roman, the co-defendant of former President Donald Trump whose legal team dropped the initial accusations about DA Willis’ potentially disqualifying and corrupt relationship with special prosecutor Nathan Wade, just sparked fire again with a new filing that they filed with the court on Friday, February 9. In it, they allege that DA Willis lied about her relationship with Nathan Wade.
The filing alleged that DA Willis did not begin her relationship after she hired Wade as a special prosecutor in the Trump case, which is what Wade and Willis claimed in a February 2 filing in which DA Willis attempted to rebut the accusations against her. Rather, the new Roman filing alleges, the Willis-Wade relationship began before Wade was hired.
Making that claim, the new Roman filing alleges that there is a witness who can credibly rebut that claim and show that their relationship began before the Trump investigation began. “Willis and Wade claim they did not have a personal, romantic relationship before Willis appointed Wade as a special prosecutor, but Terrence Bradley (“Bradley”) will refute that claim,” the filing alleges.
Continuing, the filing introduces that witness, providing, “Bradley is an attorney and a member of the Georgia Bar. Bradley and Wade were friends and business associates. Bradley has non-privileged, personal knowledge that the romantic relationship between Wade and Willis began prior to Willis being sworn as the district attorney for Fulton County, Georgia in January 2021. Thus, Bradley can confirm that Willis contracted with Wade after Wade and Willis began a romantic relationship, thus rebutting Wade’s claim in his affidavit that they did not start dating until 2022.”
It then provides details on from where the purported witness’s evidence of their relationship comes, saying, “Bradley obtained information about the relationship between Wade and Willis directly from Wade when Wade was not seeking legal advice from Bradley. Bradley obtained this information in a personal capacity as Wade’s friend prior to Wade’s decision to file for divorce.”
The filing then preemptively rebuts any claim from Wade that the information is subject to the attorney-client privilege, saying, “While Bradley would later represent Wade for a time in his divorce proceeding, the information about the relationship was obtained prior to any attorney-client relationship beginning, and none
of Bradley’s testimony will relate to any privileged attorney-client communications or work product. Bradley also has personal knowledge that Wade and Willis regularly stayed together at her home until Willis’ father moved into her home sometime in 2020.”
That information is important because Wade has already made over $650,000 working on the case for Fulton County, county records show. Further, he bought tickets for DA Willis and they took cruises together, indicating that he materially benefited from being chosen for the role and she could have benefitted in the form of those tickets and trips, if they were indeed kickbacks as some allege.
That is what Roman’s lawyer alleged in the filing, claiming, “It is evident that the district attorney and her personally-appointed special prosecutor have enriched themselves off this case.” The lawyer added, “That enrichment has taken various forms, not the least of which is incredible amounts of money paid to Wade by Willis that has, in turn, resulted in Willis’ personal financial benefit in the form of vacations, hotel stays and the like that have nothing to do with this case or her official duties as a prosecutor.”
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