Posted on 01/17/2024 7:04:23 AM PST by bitt
The Fani Fish Rots From The Head Down, Requiring Intervention By The Governor’s Office Startling revelations out of Fani Willis’ office suggesting an improper romantic relationship giving rise to an irremediable conflict of interest between Georgia’s District Attorney and the special prosecutor, Nathan Wade, should result in the entire case’s dismissal, without prejudice.
The allegations of impropriety between Willis and Wade, whom Willis’ team contracted in November of 2021, are legion, and include not only an inappropriate romantic relationship, but also serious allegations of self-dealing that involves Willis abusing her public office for lavish vacations, federal funding, and myriad other ethics violations.
The fiery allegations percolated to the surface after Mike Roman, one of the 17 co-defendants implicated in the Willis indictment, raised them in a January 8th court filing seeking to dismiss the grand jury indictment in toto as fatally defective and disqualify the district attorney’s office from further prosecuting the matter.
Roman’s explosive motion highlights improprieties that run the gauntlet from improper romantic relations to breaches of the District Attorney’s Loyalty Oath to egregious instances of self-dealing, most of which can be independently corroborated through adjacent court filings. The misconduct is so severe and persistent that it likely imputes Fani Willis’ whole office.
Fortunately, there is a remedy: under the Georgia State Constitution, Article V, Section III, Paragraph IV, “[t]he Attorney General shall … represent the state in the Supreme Court in all capital felonies and in all civil and criminal cases in any court when required by the Governor …”
Governor Brian Kemp has a constitutional duty to send AG Chris Carr into the District Attorney’s Office to clean up this mess and do so immediately or risk irreparable damage to public confidence in the integrity of the proceeding, and by extension, given President Trump’s involvement, America’s justice system overall.
This remains true, regardless of the veracity of Roman’s allegations, which are exhaustively described in his recent court filing, because of Fulton County’s own rules of professional misconduct regarding conflicts of interest. The Fulton County Code of Ethics states that “no officer … shall, by his or her conduct give reasonable basis for the impression that any person can improperly influence him or her, or unduly enjoy his or her favor, in the performance of any official acts or actions.”
In other words, even the simple appearance of impropriety is sufficient to disqualify an officer from a proceeding whereby such misconduct could raise significant doubts about the integrity and fairness of the process at large.
Indeed, Wade regularly vowed to this standard himself: for example, according to the Marietta Daily Journal, in 2016, Wade stated publicly that “If there’s an appearance, just a mere appearance of impropriety, and there’s a request for recusal, just do it, because by not doing it, what you’re doing is hurting the county in the long run, you’re costing the taxpayers a lot of money.”
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Eeeeeewwwwww ....
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I wouldn’t get my hopes up yet.
Just because the prosecutor is corrupt doesn’t necessarily make the charges go away.
Talking about this....how case should be dismissed....on Bannon/Warroom, now.
Holiday Inn Express.
That’s the ticket.
I think Kemp is in a corner and must act to end this mess. His street cred with GA voters has dissolved to a low anyway and this will end his political future unless he acts. Sen Kemp? I don’t see it right now.
Exactly. That jumped right out at me. With prejudice means exactly what you said, that the case can never be reopened.
Oh, by the way, last night I read a RUMOR - emphasis on rumor - that governor Kemp was somehow romantically involved with Fanny Willis. To me, this means that some defendant in that case must make a motion to a higher court to have the entire case thrown out, because the governor’s office will never order the AG in there. Again, to be clear, this is strictly a RUMOR. Nonetheless, Kemp has proven his hostility to Trump over time, and even if the rumor is untrue, he does not exactly come to this whole situation with clean hands.
Snicker, Snickers!
oh, dude!
Thousands of people, most of them Black, have moved out of one county and into another county.
They failed to register in their new county, but returned to their old county to vote.
By state law, that is a felony.
Those were the votes that Trump asked the GA Sec State to "find."
The Republican GA Sec State refused, because he knows most of those voters are Black.
Did those voters vote twice, or more than twice?
Some of them admitted they did, but the paperwork remains confidential, unless a Court orders it released.
Yes, that's the plan, more or less.
The DNC needs to pay back Trump and the tax payers. More than a few of them should be in prison for treason.
The Governor of Georgia showed up at Davos for the sloppy seconds.
Did you mention it's a RUMOR? LOL
I'm thinking this might be a case of where there is smoke there is fire.
No question.
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You would feel that way about the prosecutor and the defendant was George Floyd or Hunter Biden?
There is much more than what you noted, and its been brought up by the Trump team and some has been seen in the news, but it hasnt been seen in court in a trial as evidence. until then, its just he said, she said.
Kemp is yucking it up in Davos after ponying up $250k tax dollars to attend.......his message?” .....‘instructing’ them on “how much Georgia has to offer” the elite global world leaders.
And I bet Kemp invoked the saintly names of Wade and Willis dozens of times....../s.
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