BREAKING: Fani Willis admits to 'personal relationship' with prosecutor Nathan Wade

Georgia Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has admitted to having a relationship with prosecutor Nathan Wade. 

In a court filing on Friday, Willis wrote, "To be absolutely clear, the personal relationship between Special Prosecutor Wade and District Attorney Willis has never involved direct or indirect financial benefit to District Attorney Willis."

“In 2022, District Attorney Willis and I developed a personal relationship in addition to our professional association and friendship,” Wade wrote in the affidavit. 

“Although District Attorney Willis and Special Prosecutor Wade have been professional associates and friends since 2019, there was no personal relationship between them in November 2021 at the time of Special Prosecutor Wade’s appointment,” the court documents stated.  

Last month, Trump co-defendant Michael Roman filed court documents that sought for criminal charges to be dropped against him on the grounds of Willis having a having a conflict of interest in the case due to the relationship. 

The court documents allege that what Roman has said only "relies on supposition and inuendo regarding the private relationship between District Attorney Willis and Special Prosecutor Wade."

In addition, despite reports of Wade being paid above average compensation and Wade buying plane tickets to vacation locations under Willis' name, the court filing says Roman "wildly speculates that District Attorney Willis somehow benefitted financially from the investigation and prosecution of this criminal case, but provides no support to justify that conclusion."

"Under the clear definitions supplied by the law, neither District Attorney Willis nor Special Prosecutor Wade have any 'personal or financial interest' in the conviction of these Defendants, and as such, Defendants fail to support their claim," the filing adds. 

As evidence that Wade had no conflict of interest in the case, Willis' filing states, "Georgia law supports payment to special prosecutors according to 'whatever private arrangements regarding compensation are mutually agreeable to the district attorney and the appointee.'"

Willis' filing then alleges that Wade's work on the case has made him "much more money" than other prosecutors "because Wade did much more work."

The court filing from Willis comes on the heels of them both being subpoenaed to testify at a hearing on February 15 over petitions to have them disqualified from the Georgia election case involving Trump.