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The Georgia Senate Special Committee on Investigations learned this week that Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis may not have been entirely forthright when answering questions about her timely visits to Washington, D.C., or when asking the county for millions of dollars in taxpayer funds. While the panel is powerless to oust Willis from office, damning insights gleaned from testimony heard Wednesday could nevertheless help to blow up the Democrat's career. Willis' year got off to a rough start when an attorney for one of the co-defendants in former President...

FILE - Attorney Ashleigh Merchant looks on in court, Feb. 27, 2024, in Atlanta. On Wednesday, March 6, Merchant, the lawyer who initiated the effort to remove Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from the Georgia election interference case against former President Donald Trump, walked state lawmakers through her investigation into Willis' romantic relationship with a special prosecutor and why she believes it creates a conflict of interest. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson, Pool, File) ATLANTA (AP) — The lawyer who initiated the effort to remove Fani Willis from the Georgia election...

A lawyer can testify that he was told the relationship started earlier than the prosecutor said. A lawyer is ready to testify that the romantic relationship between special prosecutor Nathan Wade and Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, the official who hired Mr. Wade, started earlier than Mr. Wade and Ms. Willis allege. Manny Arora, an attorney and former adjunct professor at Georgia State School of Law, is prepared to tell Fulton County Superior Court that he was informed the relationship actually started no later than 2020, according to a...

Attorneys who are defending Donald Trump and his co-defendants are seeking to add new witnesses in their efforts to have Fani Willis disqualified from prosecuting the Fulton County RICO case. This comes days after closing arguments were presented in the hearing. On March 5, Trump attorneys claimed that Cindi Lee Yeager and Manny Arora are new witnesses who can testify that Terrence Bradley told them that Willis began a relationship with Nathan Wade prior to becoming a special prosecutor in the election interference case. Testimony from Arora could be conflicting...

The romantic relationship between Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis (D) and a special prosecutor she appointed to oversee former President Trump’s Georgia election interference case will face fresh scrutiny this week during two local government oversight hearings. Rather than in a courtroom, where many romantic details of Willis’s relationship with Nathan Wade spilled out into public view, their courtship will now be at the center of a state Senate committee hearing Wednesday and before a county ethics board Thursday.

A court filing submitted in the Georgia election case against former President Donald Trump offers the testimony of a second witness who will testify that Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis started dating Nathan Wade in 2019 or 2020, placing the start of their relationship years before she decided to appoint him as a special prosecutor. The two-page filing by attorneys representing Trump’s co-defendant, Cathy Latham, offers the testimony of attorney Manny Arora, a former adjunct professor at the Georgia State School of Law, who expressed her willingness to testify...

Defense attorneys for David Shafer, one of former President Donald Trump’s co-defendants in the Georgia election interference case, say they have a new witness to testify that Fulton County District Attorney and special prosecutor Nathan Wade perjured themselves regarding the start of their romantic relationship. In a filing on Monday, Shafer’s attorneys asked Judge Scott McAfee to reopen evidence to include testimony from Cindi Lee Yeager, a deputy district attorney in a neighboring county.

A co-defendant in former President Donald Trump‘s Georgia election subversion case asked a judge on Tuesday to allow at least one more witness to testify in a bid to disqualify Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis over alleged impropriety and corruption. Co-defendant Cathy Latham, a former Coffee County Republican chairwoman accused of being a “fake elector” in the sweeping racketeering case, asked Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee to admit testimony of attorney Manny Arora, former adjunct professor at Georgia State School of Law and Board Certified in criminal law, that...

Two new witnesses say Fulton County district attorney Fani Willis lied under oath about when she began her romantic relationship with special prosecutor Nathan Wade. Attorneys for two of former president Donald Trump’s co-defendants on Monday filed motions to subpoena the witnesses and present their testimony to the court.

A co-defendant in Donald Trump's election interference case has asked Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee to allow at least one more witness in an attempt to disqualify District Attorney Fani Willis for corruption. "Defendant files this Notice of Proposed Testimony and respectfully submits to the Court and the parties that, in the event that the evidence were re-opened regarding the various motions to dismiss or to disqualify the District Attorney for Fulton County Fani T. Willis and/or Special Prosecutor Nathan Wade from the prosecution of this action, that...