ASIA ONE
A lawyer hired to help run the Georgia election interference criminal case against Donald Trump paid for airline tickets for the district attorney overseeing the prosecution, bank records attached to a legal filing showed on Friday (Jan 19), potentially bolstering claims the two had an inappropriate relationship.
Records show special prosecutor Nathan Wade paid for flights with Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to Miami in 2022 and San Francisco in 2023, according to court documents seen by Reuters.
The charges brought by Willis against the Republican former US president are in one of two cases in which Trump is accused of crimes for trying to overturn his 2020 election loss.
The filing appears to provide some documentation of a claim made by Trump co-defendant Michael Roman that Wade paid for vacations with Willis while he was being compensated by the district attorney’s office for his work on the election probe.
It was not clear whether Willis reimbursed Wade for the travel.
The bank records made public on Friday were revealed by lawyers for Wade’s estranged wife Joycelyn Wade as part of divorce proceedings in Georgia state court…
