ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta Information First) – A brand new court docket submitting suggests a key witness in Fulton County District Legal professional Fani Willis’ disqualification listening to wasn’t telling the reality on the stand.
The doc was filed by attorneys for David Shafer, the previous chairman of the Georgia Republican Social gathering and a co-defendant in former President Donald Trump’s Georgia racketeering case, on Monday. It says Cindi Lee Yeager, co-chief deputy district lawyer for the Cobb County District Legal professional’s Workplace, would testify that Terrence Bradley instructed her a distinct story than what he instructed the court docket.
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Bradley is the previous regulation companion and divorce lawyer of Nathan Wade, a particular prosecutor on the Trump case whose former relationship with Willis might have crossed monetary and moral boundaries, the protection argues. In a collection of hearings deciding whether or not Willis could be faraway from the case, Bradley was known as to testify thrice.
When grilled on particulars in regards to the relationship, Bradley usually mentioned he couldn’t recall specifics, claiming he had no private data of when the connection began. However based on the submitting, he spoke with Yeager a number of instances in particular person round August 2023 to January 2024, saying the connection began after the 2 met at a 2019 convention and was ongoing when Willis was operating for district lawyer. Each Willis and Wade have testified that the connection began in 2022 after she employed him as a particular prosecutor.
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Round September 2023, Bradley was visiting Yeager in her workplace when he obtained a name from Willis, Yeager mentioned. Yeager claims the overheard dialog was about an article discussing how a lot cash Wade and his regulation companions had been paid within the Trump case.
“They’re coming after us,” Willis allegedly instructed Bradley. “You don’t want to speak to them about something about us.”
Within the submitting, Yeager mentioned she was “involved” in regards to the mismatching data whereas watching Bradley’s testimony.
The main points Bradley allegedly instructed Yeager are much like what he texted Ashleigh Service provider, the lawyer for one more Trump co-defendant. When pressured by the protection, Bradley instructed the court docket he was merely speculating when messaging Service provider — however the protection wasn’t shopping for it.
“Let’s converse reality right here. You’re below oath,” Trump co-defendant lawyer Richard Rice instructed Bradley at a listening to on Feb. 27. “Did you mislead her about any of these particulars?”
“I don’t recall whether or not any of it was a lie or not,” Bradley answered.
On the stand, Robin Bryant-Yeartie, a former good friend of Willis, additionally mentioned the 2’s relationship began in 2019.
Scott McAfee, the choose on Trump’s Fulton County case, is predicted to decide concerning Willis’ disqualification inside two weeks.
Willis is the domestically elected district lawyer who issued dozens of indictments in August 2023 accusing Trump and his allies of making an attempt to overturn Georgia’s 2020 election outcomes.
However in early January, an explosive court docket submitting by Michael Roman, one among Trump’s co-defendants, and his lawyer, Ashleigh Service provider, accused Willis and particular prosecutor Nathan Wade of getting a romantic relationship.
Roman is a former White Home aide who served because the director of Trump’s election day operations. Prosecutors allege Roman was concerned in efforts to place forth a set of pretend electors after the 2020 election, a cost to which Roman has pleaded not responsible.
Roman’s court docket submitting claims Willis and Wade took lavish holidays collectively and that Wade used a part of his wage from the district lawyer’s workplace to journey with Willis. Service provider additionally claims to have found “outdoors of court docket filings” that Willis and Wade went on journeys collectively.
Roman then filed one other gorgeous court docket doc, claiming Bradley would testify Willis and Wade had a private relationship earlier than Willis employed Wade.
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