Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia decided to build on recent counterattacks made against Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis. Rep. MTG did so with a criminal conduct complaint filed on Thursday in which she argued that DA Willis abused her powers when she hired and paid large amounts to a subordinate with whom she was having a sexual relationship.
In the letter, sent to Georgia Governor Brian Kempt and Georgia Attorney General Christopher Carr, Rep. Greene argued that the allegations about DA Willis’s conduct made by Micahel Roman are severe enough to warrant a criminal conduct investigation, and that they call the legitimacy of the case into question.
Beginning the letter, Rep. MTG made her intentions with it quite clear from the start and said, “Dear Governor Kemp and Attorney General Carr: I write today to express my serious concerns about alleged criminal misconduct by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and her staff.”
Continuing, she gave the quick rundown of the claims made about DA Willis, saying, “As detailed in Trump co-defendant Michael Roman’s 127-page motion to dismiss the criminal indictment, Fani Willis faces serious allegations that she illegally hired her secret boyfriend–Nathan Wade, who has never tried a felony case–as her special prosecutor to bring an unprecedented, complex, and partisan felony RICO prosecution against President Trump–the leading presidential contender for 2024–along with 18 co- defendants.”
Rep. Greene then added, “Despite this obviously illegal conflict of interest, Fani Willis has allegedly paid Nathan Wade–her secret boyfriend and special Trump prosecutor–nearly $700,000 in official funds. This includes a multitude of vague block billings for 8 hours—and as a lawyer publicized, even one billing for 24 hours on a single day, with the vague description ‘[p]repared cases for pre trial.’”
Giving yet more examples of DA Willis’s alleged misconduct, Greene said, “And Fani Willis may have received illegal kickbacks, including lavish domestic and international trips provided by Nathan Wade, from these misappropriated government funds. According to Nathan Wade’s invoices submitted to the Fulton County DA’s office, Fani Willis even used taxpayer funds to pay Nathan Wade for two trips to coordinate with President Biden’s White House staff before bringing her unprecedented indictment of President Trump, Biden’s chief political rival in 2024.”
Then she used those allegations to cast aspersions on the legitimacy of what DA Willis is up to, saying, “This is part of Fani Willis’ unlawful partisan pattern, through her words and deeds, to illegally politicize and weaponize her public office to wage lawfare against President Trump for the purpose of interfering in the 2024 presidential election.”
And, getting to what was illegal about what Willis did, she said, “And now we are learning she has allegedly enriched her secret boyfriend and herself during this process. If proven true, these actions reflect Fani Willis’ serious lawlessness, including potential violation of public oath (Ga. Code Ann., § 16-10-1), bribery (Ga. Code Ann., § 16-10-2), improper influence of a government official (Ga. Code Ann., § 16-10-5), criminal conspiracy (Ga. Code Ann., § 16-4-8), conspiracy to defraud government (Ga. Code Ann., § 16-10-21), racketeering (Ga. Code Ann., §§ 16-14-1 through 12), false statements and concealment (Ga. Code Ann., § 16-10-20), Fulton County’s gift ban (Fulton County Code of Laws § 2-69(a)), and similar Georgia public-corruption crimes. Georgia statute states “the district attorney shall take the following oath: ‘I do swear that I will faithfully and impartially and without fear, favor, or affection discharge my duties as district attorney and will take only my lawful compensation. So help me God.’” If Fani Willis took kickbacks—in the form of lavish trips—from her unqualified boyfriend she appointed with government funds, she violated her oath and many Georgia criminal statutes.”
Concluding, she demanded a criminal investigation into DA Willis, saying, “Thus, I request you order the immediate and formal criminal investigation into the alleged criminal misconduct by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, along with her special Trump prosecutor and alleged boyfriend Nathan Wade, pursuant to your authority under Georgia statute.”
