Fulton County ethics board drops Fani Willis complaints from hearing

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: The Hill

03/07/24 11:20 AM ET


A Fulton County ethics watchdog slated to hear complaints against District Attorney Fani Willis (D) on Thursday will no longer do so, according to an updated meeting agenda. The Fulton County Board of Ethics was expected to hear two complaints against Willis after her romance with a special prosecutor on the election interference case involving former President Trump raised concerns of a conflict of interest.

The board determined it does not have jurisdiction over Willis, who is a state constitutional officer in her role, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported. The Hill requested comment from the Board of Ethics’s secretary and the clerk to the Fulton County Board of Commissioners.

Fulton County resident Steven Kramer filed one of the complaints, citing Willis’s relationship with special prosecutor Nathan Wade and questioning whether she improperly benefited from his hiring. “The extra resources and financial costs for the court and the district attorney’s office, both paid for by Fulton County taxpayers like me, are to deal with this improper relationship,” Kramer wrote in his Feb. 14 complaint.

The other complaint was filed by internet-based talk show host Gregory Mantell, who claimed in a Substack post that Willis has violated “at least six sections and even more subsections” of the Fulton County Ethics Code. The Ethics board inquiry was cheered on by national leaders such as Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), who posted on social media last month that she was looking forward to the hearing.

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/4516182-fulton-county-ethics-board-fani-willis/

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This was a nonsensical "pile-on" thing by a bunch of RW loons.

[asiliveandbreathe]

1. IMHO..this whole business about Willis and Wade is nothing more than a

hit job..SOP..they tried to dirty up Fani with a story about a gang member Fani was prosecuting..and when that didn't work..they found a willing disgruntled Wade employee..also Wades divorce lawyer..who now says his story was all speculation..

Watched video..with Merchant under questioning..she is so NOT credible..just doubling down because she is caught in a lie, she is all over the place and appears to be making it up...if you haven't seen it..here at MTN...

This is during the Georgia Senate meeting..

[robbob]

2. I'm still trying to figure out how it's a conflict of interest

when two people who are in a relationship are both prosecuting a scumbag traitor? No conflict there…

[catrose]

7. Exactly. If she were in a relationship with one of the defendants, that's a conflict of interest.

[TomSlick]

8. I don't see the issue, irrespective of who is being prosecuted.

[robbob]

14. Yeah, I know...

I just added “scumbag traitor” for emphasis. Plus, of course, the media focuses on the relationship between two consenting adults while conveniently minimizing the nature of the charges tRump is being prosecuted for. Funny, that…🙄

[TeamProg]

10. I think the complaint was that she benefited financially from dating Wade who she created budget for in her hiring of

him. That's why all of the details about her saying that she paid for all of her stuff.. ie: went "Dutch dating".

[LiberalLovinLug]

21. Which is almost as ridiculous frankly

1. This is not abnormal behaviour for couples. Wade had job (whether promoted by Willis or not) where he could afford to pay for some of the vacation they had together.

2. If this was true, it is hardly an issue about justice being able to be done fairly. It sounds more like a local political issue, if they want to make a deal about it. A misuse of tax payer money, or some such charge.

I don't understand how they conflate a romantic spending spree by an employee on their employer, with creating some unfair bias against the case they are working on together.

[TeamProg]

22. I inow, it's a really weak case. But that's MAGA for you. nt

[LiberalLovinLug]

23. Yeah, its all about Delay Delay Delay. That's the bonus, even it they don't stop her.

[jaxexpat]

3. These yakels ere not prepared for the magnitude..........

of the costs to prosecute a super grifter like Trump. They were counting on racism to provide the evidence of illegality.
Just plain naive and lacking the imagination to accept how darkies could trouble their newly rediscovered Jim Crow fantasies.

[ificandream]

4. So when is Judge McAfee gonna drop it?

It's a nothing burger now.

[mchill]

5. In about a week.

[Warpy]

6. It's been nothing since it came out that Willis paid her own way (smart lady)

With no trail of gifts and paid for vacations, it was colleagues getting away for a weekend to work in peace with no press around.

They totally failed to prove she's some kind of Jezebel.

It was slut shaming, start to finish.

Removing her from the case was only a stalling tactic, anyway. It wouldn't have affected the outcome.

[murielm99]

15. Yes. Slut shaming.

Shout it out.

[oldmanlynn]

18. Im guessing if he takes Fani Willis out he will not be re-elected

However i do see trumps goons trying to buy the judge. Hopefully McAfee does the right thing

[ffr]

9. It's still a GOP win, unless she's able to move forward with a case resolved before November

Their tactic has always been the Trump go-to, delay, delay, delay.

The slobfather needs to be put away once and for all!

[BumRushDaShow]

11. Because it was RICO with 19 defendants

It was always pretty much going to be the last resolved. There were 4 who had plea deals so it dropped the number down but I think much of the discussion about handling was that there would probably be separate trials of "groups" of defendants, which would necessarily drag it out.

[The Roux Comes First]

19. From What I See (IANL), This Is One of Those Cases the ### Cannot Absolve Himself of, No Matter

How kingly or godly he perceives his powers. This was desperate slut-shaming from the first, sheer desperation as it is not a Federal case.

Go Fani!!

[Wild blueberry]

12. As Charles Pierce said pungently,

"The hearing to determine whether the Fulton County DA should be disqualified is literally is a product of one of the people under indictment."

[ificandream]

13. That seems to have been buried in all the bullshit.

[dchill]

16. "This was a nonsensical "pile-on" ...

thing by a bunch of RW loons." Yes. What isn't?

[BumRushDaShow]

17. It's their default!

[Xipe Totec]

20. Where there's smoke there's a pair of republican pants on fire. nt