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Divorce lawyer says Fani Willis, Nathan Wade had romance

In her first sit-down interview, Andrea Hastings, the attorney of Joycelyn Wade, spoke with 11Alive.

ATLANTA — The attorney representing the estranged wife of Trump special prosecutor Nathan Wade gave her first sit-down interview with 11Alive Wednesday afternoon. 

Andrea Hastings, who represents Joycelyn Wade, described the headline-grabbing divorce proceedings against the man tapped by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to help lead the ongoing prosecution of former President Donald Trump and 14 others for alleged election interference. 

The Cobb County divorce case became embroiled in the controversy surrounding the election trial after a Trump codefendant alleged that Nathan Wade and Willis were engaged in an improper romantic relationship and misused taxpayer funds.

Hastings told 11Alive that she did not coordinate her filings with efforts to disqualify Willis from the racketeering case. Similar legal maneuvers were made on the same day in both cases earlier this month.

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Ex-divorce lawyer’s testimony complicates Willis, Wade controversy

Details of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’s (D) romance with a special prosecutor overseeing former President Trump’s Georgia 2020 election interference case grew increasingly murky after a second round of testimony from a star witness this week.

The contradictions surrounding the timeline of Willis and Nathan Wade’s relationship are particularly troublesome, with the two prosecutors maintaining they didn’t begin seeing each other until after Willis hired Wade to oversee Trump’s case.

But witnesses in the probe involving their romance have sometimes suggested otherwise.

Terrence Bradley, the ex-law partner and divorce lawyer of Wade, recounted little new information on the witness stand Tuesday, saying dozens of times he couldn’t recall details of what Wade told him about Willis.

However, his sometimes-restrained testimony instilled a healthy dose of doubt and further muddied the waters around the relationship that could see both prosecutors booted from the case.

The defense is seeking to

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