LOVIN' THEIR JOB
Fani, Nate accused of gettin’ it on in law office
Fani Willis was accused of having a sexual tryst in her private law office with former lover Nathan Wade when she ran a private practice between 2018 and 2019.
The juicy accusation was launched in a Georgia court Tuesday when defense attorneys questioned Wade’s former law partner and divorce attorney, Terrence Bradley.
Bradley was ordered Monday to testify about Fulton County District Attorney Willis and Wade, who stand accused of being in an intimate relationship before Willis tapped her lawyer and former mentor to become special prosecutor in former President Donald Trump’s Georgia election interference case in November 2021.
“He told you they had sex at [her] office, correct?” Ashleigh Merchant — a lawyer for Trump co-defendant Michael Roman — asked Bradley of Wade’s comments.
“I don’t recall him saying that, no,” he replied.
Bradley didn’t recall many details about his knowledge — or lack thereof — about Wade and Willis’ relationship in a near incredulous display of forgetfulness as he was grilled by three lawyers for the defendants.
Bradley had previously been billed as the star witness at the hearings. However, when pressed by Merchant about when he found out about Willis and Wade’s relationship, Bradley repeatedly said he could not remember the date.
“I do not have knowledge of when it started,” Bradley said.
He also claimed he only discussed the relationship once with Wade in their law office, but does not recall exactly when that happened.
However, texts exchanged between Bradley and Merchant appear to show otherwise.
“It started when she left the DA’s office and was a judge in South Fulton. They met at the municipal court CLE conference,” Bradley reportedly texted Merchant.
He testified Tuesday that he “speculated on some things” in the text exchange and did not have direct knowledge of what actually went down.
“Why in the heck would you ‘speculate’?” Donald Trump’s lawyer Steve Sadow shot back.
“I have no answer for that,” Bradley testified.
Willis and Wade have told the court their relationship first became romantic in 2022 and have stuck by that story through their testimony, but lawyers for Trump and Roman have insisted they can prove otherwise.
Trump and his co-defendants are looking to disqualify Willis from the case and to have all charges, centered around the state’s expansive racketeering RICO law, dismissed.
The defendants have argued Willis and Wade compromised the integrity of the case as the district attorney financially benefited from Wade’s appointment.
Merchant has pointed to records showing Wade spent money on luxury travel for himself and Willis, money earned from Fulton County’s coffers.