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JUST IN: Judge Confirms That Fani Willis Disqualification Decision Will Be Coming Tomorrow
Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAffee confirmed that his decision in the Fani Willis disqualification case will be coming on Friday.
McAffee was asked by a reporter if he planned to stick his timeline given after closing arguments in the case wrapped up earlier this month. The judge stated that his decision would be coming within two weeks, which would be Friday, March 14.
“So I made a promise to everybody, these kind of orders take time to write, I need to make sure I say exactly what I want to, and I plan to stick to the timeline I gave everyone,” the judge said on Thursday evening. “So this week?” the reporter followed up.
“Should be out tomorrow,” McAffee replied.
Former Georgia Republican Party chairman David Shafer — who is one of Trump’s co-defendants in Willis’ RICO case — filed a motion to disqualify Willis from the case due to her relationship with Nathan Wade, who was hired as a special prosecutor to work on the case.
While both Willis and Wade have claimed that the affair between them began when Wade was hired to work on the case in 2022, a former office employee testified that the relationship began as far back as 2021. Wade was also paid $700,000 in government funds to work on the case, more than other co-counsels.
In addition, Willis could not produce receipts for a number of lavish trips taken by the couple, telling the court that she paid in cash.
Cobb County Chief Deputy District Attorney Cindi Lee Yeager has offered to enter additional bombshell testimony if McAffee re-opens the case for evidence. Yeager told defense attorneys that she had multiple meetings with Terrence Bradley, Wade’s former law partner, between August 2023 and January 2024. Bradley told Yeager that Wade and Willis first met in 2019, adding that the romantic relationship between the two began around that time.
Yeager is also willing to testify that she listened in on a phone call between Willis and Bradley in which the Fulton County DA stated that “they are coming after us” and ordered Bradley to keep quiet. The phone call was made in response to an article and how much Wade and other attorneys were paid for their work on the case.