Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis instructed her former top prosecutor and ex-lover Nathan Wade not to answer any questions about his work in her office to the House Judiciary Committee.
Willis revealed her instructions to Wade in a Monday letter to Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH). Wade is scheduled for a deposition before the committee on Tuesday.
“I am concerned that your demand for Mr. Wade’s testimony would force him to improperly divulge confidential information that is protected by privileges,” she writes, adding that she has informed Wade that her office “is asserting all legal protections and privileges related to information that he possesses about ongoing criminal prosecutions.”
Wade’s sole case assignment for Willis was Donald Trump’s election interference case.
Willis’s case against Donald Trump for election interference has hit a number of roadblocks in and out of court.
Jordan launched an investigation into Willis in January 2024 for accepting more than $14.6 million in grant funds from the Department of Justice (DOJ) between 2020 and 2023. The timeframe of the funding has raised questions about whether the DOJ granted Willis federal funds to finance the prosecution of Trump.
On November 18, 2022, Wade spent eight hours in