Fulton County DA Fani Willis’ alleged paramour paid for plane tickets in her title, bank statements suggest

Georgia particular prosecutor Nathan Wade, the alleged paramour of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, purchased plane tickets in her title, in response to a court docket submitting.

Attorneys for Wade’s estranged spouse, Joycelyn Wade, filed court docket paperwork on Friday that included 2022 bank statements displaying purchases of flights to Miami and San Francisco. 

The statements, which had been obtained by Fox News, present that Wade purchased round-trip tickets for himself and Willis to Miami in October 2022, which additionally included a 3rd ticket for somebody named Clara Bowman on the identical day from Houston to Miami. Another round-trip ticket to San Francisco for Wade and Willis was bought in April 2023, paperwork present.

Joycelyn Wade’s attorneys, who search to have Willis deposed for her divorce from Nathan Wade, argued that there “appears to be no reasonable explanation for their travels apart from a romantic relationship.” 

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Fulton County, Georgia district legal professional Fani Willis, who introduced costs towards former President Donald Trump for election interference, is accused of getting an improper relationship with particular prosecutor Nathan Wade.  (AP Photo/John Bazemore, File)

Willis is caught in a political firestorm over allegations that she engaged in an improper relationship with Nathan Wade, whom she employed to steer the prosecution of former President Donald Trump and 18 others for their alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia.

Willis has been subpoenaed to present a pretrial deposition in the divorce case on January 23, however in a Thursday court docket submitting, she argued that the subpoena ought to be quashed. Her legal professional, Cinque Axam, has argued that Joycelyn Wade has “conspired with interested parties in the criminal Election Interference Case to use the civil discovery process to annoy, embarrass, and oppress District Attorney Willis.”

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Axam accused Joycelyn Wade of “obstructing and interfering” with the district legal professional’s ongoing case towards Trump.

In their response on Friday, Wade’s attorneys denied that she is utilizing the deposition to “harass” Willis, however “rather to seek pertinent information from her husband’s paramour regarding her relationship with Plaintiff and the extension to the Plaintiff’s financial involvement in the same.”

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Fulton County, Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis and particular prosecutor Nathan Wade. (Getty Images)

While the bank data present that Nathan Wade bought plane tickets for himself and Willis, they don’t present direct proof of an affair — though Willis has indirectly denied a romantic relationship.

The affair allegations surfaced final week when Trump codefendant Michael Roman’s lawyer accused Willis and Nathan Wade of partaking in an improper relationship and mishandling public cash in a separate court docket submitting. Roman’s lawyer, Ashleigh Merchant, didn’t present proof of the alleged relationship between Willis and Wade however pointed to proof in Wade’s divorce case.

Merchant alleges that Willis’ purported relationship with Wade created a battle of curiosity and that she benefited financially from the connection in the type of lavish holidays the 2 took utilizing funds his regulation agency had acquired for engaged on the case.

County data present that Wade has been paid practically $654,000 in authorized charges since January 2022, an quantity approved by the district legal professional, or Willis in this case.

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Special prosecutor Nathan Wade listens throughout a motions listening to for former President Donald Trump’s election interference case, Friday, January 12, 2024 in Atlanta. (Elijah Nouvelage/The Washington Post by way of AP, Pool)

Wade’s bank statements present extra purchases, together with two $1,387 and $1,284 funds for a Royal Caribbean cruise, which had been made on the identical day, October 4, 2022, that Wade purchased the airline ticket to Miami in Willis’ title. Other bills between October 2022 and May 2023 had been for Atlanta tour operator Vacation Express, the Hyatt Regency Aruba Resort and the Norwegian Cruise Line, and for the DoubleTree by Hilton Napa Valley – American Canyon. 

Joycelyn Wade claimed that the bank statements present that “Ms. Willis was an intended travel partner for at least some of these trips as indicated by flights he purchased for her to accompany him.” 

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“It is regrettable that Ms. Willis has filed such an inflammatory Motion, which has left Defendant with no other choice than to respond forcefully and with supporting evidence in a case that is very personal in nature,” the submitting states.

Fani Willis and Nathan Wade didn’t instantly reply to requests for remark. 

Fox News’ Samantha Daigle; Fox News Digital’s Anders Hagstrom, Brian Flood and Brandon Gillespie; and The Associated Press contributed to this report.