The fun never sets in the Atlanta courtroom of Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee. That is the red-hot scene of the adults-only reality TV hit called The Real Prosecutors of Fulton County.
As the Associated Press observed on Wednesday, a perilous political matter has “taken on a soap opera atmosphere, bogged down by testimony about sex, dating, cash stashes and text messages…”
The latest guest star: Terrence Bradley, Esq., the former law partner of Nathan Wade. Wade, for his part, swims in controversy.
He conducted an adulterous relationship with Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, even while he was married (en route to divorce) and works for Willis as lead prosecutor in her criminal trial related to President Donald J. Trump’s alleged efforts to "overturn" the 2020 election.
Bradley testified about when Willis and Wade started their swingin’ affair.
He previously had exchanged hundreds of e-mails with Ashleigh Merchant, an attorney for Trump’s co-defendant Michael Roman, regarding the timing of Willis and Wade’s romance. In one message, Bradley said that it "absolutely" began before Willis employed Wade in November 2021.
But then Bradley contracted courtroom-induced amnesia. Frustrated, Merchant told McAfee: "Judge, he doesn’t remember much of anything right now."
Memories fade. But, alas for Willis and Wade, phone bills are forever.
Wade’s cell phone records are highly incriminating. They show some 2,073 calls and 9,792 text messages between Willis and Wade. They communicated non-stop, with the frenzied back and forth of teenagers in heat.
Even more revealing are the location data from Wade’s cellphone. They confirm that Wade repeatedly showed up at Willis' home 'round midnight and then went home by the dawn’s early light.
Did they burn the midnight oil reviewing documents and plotting trial procedures or were other things afoot by candlelight?
Wade and Willis testified that they "did not sleep together" before Willis hired Wade.
As the late, great Dr. Henry Kissinger would have put it, this most likely "has the added advantage of being true."
These visits in the wee small hours involved little, if any, actual sleep.
The opposing counsel should have asked the obvious question as directly as this: "Did you two have sex before Willis employed Wade?"
Of course, Willis paid Wade an enormous sum to argue a complex Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) case against a former president of the United States.
This is the legal equivalent of starring in the flying trapeze.
Wade seems better equipped to drive a clown car.
Nonetheless, he got paid like P.T. Barnum.
Wade has earned some $654,000 from Willis’ case against Trump since January 2022. Fishier still, Willis paid Wade $250 per hour in November and December 2021 while disbursing only $150 per hour to John Floyd, reputedly Georgia’s go-to RICO expert, according to a contract secured by The Daily Caller News Foundation.
Wade then spent part of this bonanza to take Willis on cruises, a fabulous weekend in Napa Valley, California and other hot times in posh spots.
Not so fast, Willis claims. She argued that she and Wade went Dutch on these journeys and, therefore, she did not benefit from the money that she put in Wade's pocket.
Asked to show receipts (a reasonable request), Willis said she could not because she reimbursed Wade in cash.
"And so when you got cash to pay him back on these trips, [did] you go to the ATM?" Merchant asked Willis on the witness stand.
"No," Willis replied. "I have money in my home."
And why did Willis keep a pile of greenbacks in her house?
The Fulton County District Attorney explained: “If you’re a woman and you on a date with a man, you better have two hundred dollars in your pocket, so if that man acts up, you can go where you want to go.”
Wade evidently has only one receipt showing that Willis repaid him for any of his erotic largesse. Beyond that, “I don’t have them," Wade testified.
This instantly disappearing paper trail means that these amorous attorneys have virtually no proof that they split the tabs for their trysts. In fact, on Friday morning, John Merchant, an attorney for Michael Roman, told Judge McAfee that after accounting for the few receipts that exist, $9,247 that Wade paid for his flings with Willis show no indication of ever being repaid by his boss.
Willis seems to have recruited Wade in exchange for sexual favors and financial benefits, namely Earth-shaking assignations and splashy vacations.
This was a giant sexual kickback scheme — call it play to pay — all financed with Fulton County, Georgia’s tax dollars.
If Willis hired her boyfriend, then this is corruption.
If Willis hired Wade and then started copulating with him, then this sounds like sexual harassment: A boss knocking boots with an employee over whom she wields professional and economic power.
This is either a kickback scam or #Me Too in reverse.
Which is it, Fani?
Willis and Wade should be booted from this case. Indeed, this entire stinking wreck should be dismissed and Rudy Giuliani, Mark Meadows, Sidney Powell, Harrison Floyd, Michael Roman, and the other defendants who are being persecuted — or who already have pleaded guilty — should have their charges dropped, their legal fees reimbursed, and savor the profound apologies of Fani Willis and the Fulton County District Attorney's Office.
Deroy Murdock is a Manhattan-based Fox News Contributor. Read Deroy Murdock's Reports — More Here.
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