Fani Willis Investigation Calls Grow Amid Fury Over Flights

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is facing ire after it emerged that a special prosecutor involved in the Georgia election-interference case against Donald Trump allegedly paid for her to fly on at least two occasions while the investigation was underway.

Bank statements filed in the divorce case of her alleged lover Nathan Wade, a special prosecutor hired by Willis, suggest that he paid for her to fly on two trips. Provided by his wife, Joycelyn Wade, the statements show that Wade purchased tickets for himself and Willis on two occasions: one trip to Miami bought in October 2022; and the other to San Francisco purchased in April 2023.

The statements show the payments came from a Visa Signature Business account. Newsweek has been unable to verify at this time whether the tickets were paid for using public money or whether the account is for Wade’s personal funds. Newsweek contacted Fani Willis via phone call on Saturday for comment.

The statements seem to corroborate allegations made by one of Trump’s co-defendants in the Georgia election interference case. The former president and 18 others were charged in August 2023 in relation to alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election result. Trump has consistently denied all charges against him and repeatedly said that they are part of a political witch hunt aimed at derailing him as GOP frontrunner in the 2024 presidential race.

The allegations were first made when Michael Roman, one of Donald Trump’s co-defendants in the Georgia election case, filed a motion accusing Willis of an “improper, clandestine personal relationship” with Wade. The BBC said that, according to Roman, this resulted in “the special prosecutor, and, in turn, the district attorney, profiting significantly from th