Marjorie Taylor Greene hits Trump DA Fani Willis with ethics complaint
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., is filing an ethics complaint Thursday morning against Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, accusing the Georgia official of misusing public funds and lying about it.
Greene, a top aide to former President Trump, accused Willis of violating public disclosure rules and suggested she was doing so to hide her relationship with special prosecutor Nathan Wade.
Willis hired Wade to assist in the investigation into allegations the former president pressured Georgia officials to overturn his 2020 election loss.
Green's four-page complaint to the State Ethics Commission accused Willis of "allegedly paying her secret lover a substantially higher hourly rate than one of her special prosecutors actually had." The important thing is the RICO experience."
She said Wade took about $700,000 of the proceeds and used it on "a luxury Caribbean cruise, a trip to Napa and other lavish trips" for the couple.
Green argued that Willis, as a public official, is required by state law to regularly disclose his finances. He accused Willis of not doing the same in 2019, 2021 and 2022. However, Willis's 2020 filing is public.
"This pattern of behavior shows that Fanny Willis's repeated failure to file such disclosures is willful, or at least negligent of her duties and the law," the congresswoman wrote. "Upon information and belief, Fanny Willis received compensation from her secret lover and special prosecutor, Nathan Wade, for a vacation on a luxury Caribbean cruise and a trip to Napa Valley."
Greene continued, "These revelations would have exposed the public to her inappropriate relationship with her secret lover and special prosecutor Nathan Wade, who illegally oversaw her already sham prosecution of former President Trump and 18 co-defendants. Has tarnished it."
Willis acknowledged having a "personal relationship" with Wade in court documents earlier this month, but he denied any impropriety or reason for recusing from the Trump case.
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Willis claimed that while he and Wade "have been professional colleagues and friends since 2019," there was "no personal relationship" between him and Wade at the time of Wade's appointment in November 2021.
They also argued in court documents that one of Trump's 18 co-defendants, Michael Roman, who made allegations of impropriety, and his lawyers "will have no access to any prosecutorial discretion (i.e., any charging decision or plea) do not provide any support for his insistence that the use of the recommendation) was influenced by any personal relationship in this case."
Fox News Digital contacted Fulton County government for comment on Greene's ethics complaint.
This comes after Green filed an ethics complaint against Wade last month.
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