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Fani Willis

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis speaks in the Fulton County Government Center during a news conference, Monday, Aug. 14, 2023, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)

Adultery and nepotism allegations against Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis were the unspoken subtext during a Monday hearing with potential implications for former President Donald Trump’s Georgia election interference and racketeering (RICO) case.

In one sense, the case stylized as Wade v. Wade is simply a long-running divorce battle between one of the elected prosecutor’s top deputies, Fulton County Special Prosecutor Nathan Wade, and his estranged (and soon to be ex-) wife, Joycelyn Wade.

In another sense, however, the divorce is a sideline skirmish in the RICO case itself. On Jan. 8, Mrs. Wade filed a subpoena to depose Willis in the divorce matter. On the same day, Michael Roman, a senior staff member for Trump’s 2020 reelection campaign, filed two court motions: one to unseal the Wades’ divorce filings; the other to disqualify Willis and Mr. Wade from the election interference case, alleging a “conflict of interest” among the two state’s lawyers.

In response, Willis’s own attorney filed an emergency motion for a protective order — seeking to quash the deposition request.

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