Wife offers evidence of prosecutor’s trips with DA

The estranged wife of a special prosecutor accused of having a romantic relationship with Fani Willis, the Atlanta district attorney who hired him, offered evidence Friday that Willis accompanied him on trips unrelated to their work: leading the Georgia case against former president Donald Trump.

A court filing from Joycelyn Wade, who is in divorce proceedings with the prosecutor, Nathan Wade, included what it said were statements for a credit card account belonging to him. The statements showed that he bought plane tickets for himself and Willis, including tickets to San Francisco from Atlanta purchased April 25, 2023, and to Miami from Atlanta purchased Oct. 4, 2022.

The release of the credit card statements follows a motion filed last week by Michael Roman, one of Trump’s 14 co-defendants in the Georgia case. That motion, which did not include any proof, claimed that Willis was having a romantic relationship with Wade that began before she hired him in 2021 to manage the high-profile case. The motion also stated that Wade, who has been paid more than $650,000 by the district attorney’s office, paid for vacations with Willis.

The motion argued that Willis and Wade had violated state rules of professional conduct, as well as local and federal law, and had created a conflict of interest that should result in both of them, and Willis’ office, being removed from the case.

The credit card statements appear to give weight to some of the claims in Roman’s motion, which said that Wade and Willis “have traveled personally together to such places as Napa Valley, Florida and the Caribbean” and that Wade “has purchased tickets for both of them to travel on both the Norwegian and Royal Caribbean cruise lines.”