Nathan Wade, a special prosecutor working with the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office, resigned his post after a judge ruled Friday that District Attorney Fani Willis and her office may remain on the 2020 election case involving former President Donald Trump and his allies if Wade stepped aside.
Wade’s resignation as special prosecutor came hours after Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee laid out two options that would allow for the continued prosecution of the racketeering case against Trump and his co-defendants stemming from an alleged scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 election in Georgia.
This case was kind of bonkers. They’re both lawyers, so they knew the ethical risks of an employer banging their employee.
They are leading a case that is super important to the nation, and they put it all at risk. Even if this was innocent, why on earth would do this if you knew the risks better than most?
for the record the romantic aspect of the relationship ended before Trump was indicted.
It’s still wrong, and it’s still recent enough to justify termination- or it would be for any corporation I’ve ever worked for. It’s unfortunate, but there’s reasons to be hard asses about it.
Ehh sorta “She acknowledged the existence of a romantic relationship, but she said that it began in 2022, after Mr. Wade began working for the district attorney’s office, and that the physical element of the relationship ended before the indictment was handed up in August.”
Probably the best possible outcome. They can always get a new special prosecutor.
It’s apparently kind of hard to find someone that is willing to put up with the threats against their lives for somewhat measly pay. But, yes, hopefully they can 🤞
Well, he wasn’t pulling down measly pay, that was part of the problem. :)
Imagine having to resign from your job just for doing you job
They were doing rather more than their job, though.
Is it right? Probably not.
Did they do anything wrong? Almost certainly not.
All of that said, by the time a relationship escalates to the point of your boss knowing intimate details…. The least objectionable thing that will happen is one of you has to go.
It is difficult to imagine a place so out of touch that they would not have a policy explicitly forbidding such a relationship between a boss and anyone they hired.
He was working to clear out her backlog from the prior asshole; while they were dating. I’m not sure what happens when judges and courts are involved; but at the end of the day he was her subordinate; and there is never a way for a boss to date a subordinate without at least the potential for coercion.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Wade’s resignation as special prosecutor came hours after Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee laid out two options that would allow for the continued prosecution of the racketeering case against Trump and his co-defendants stemming from an alleged scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 election in Georgia.
“This lack of a confirmed financial split creates the possibility and appearance that the district attorney benefited — albeit non-materially — from a contract whose award lay solely within her purview and policing,” McAfee wrote.
McAfee also rebuked Wade for what he said was a “patently unpersuasive explanation for the inaccurate interrogatories” the special prosecutor submitted in divorce proceedings, which the judge said indicated a willingness to “wrongly conceal” his relationship with Willis.
“Reasonable questions about whether the District Attorney and her hand-selected lead SADA testified untruthfully about the timing of their relationship further underpin the finding of an appearance of impropriety and the need to make proportional efforts to cure it,” McAfee wrote.
He also denied Trump’s request to disqualify the district attorney from the prosecution because of “forensic misconduct,” based on a speech Willis gave at Atlanta’s oldest Black church after her relationship with Wade was brought into public view.
While McAfee said the effect of Willis’ speech was to “cast racial aspersions at” Roman’s decision to request she be removed, he could not find that her remarks crossed a line to deny Trump and his co-defendants a fair trial or require her disqualification.
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