Former acting U.S. Attorney General Matthew Whitaker says the roughly $654,000 in legal fees paid by Fulton County district attorney Fani Willis' office to Nathan Wade, the special prosecutor also assigned to the case against former President Donald Trump, is a plight against the taxpayers in Fulton County, Georgia.
"This whole case is starting to, you know, smell really bad," Whitaker said Saturday during an appearance on Newsmax TV's "Wake up America."
"This relationship is so obviously unethical and against the interests of the taxpayers of Fulton County. That's where I think it is so offensive is that almost a million dollars was siphoned off ... for them and to fund their relationship that should have been invested in the ... office and otherwise into doing ... justice."
Whitaker also said that money could have been spent on "crime in Atlanta."
According to the New York Post, allegations of Willis's and Wade's romance came to light last week when Trump co-defendant Mike Roman filed to have the criminal charges against him dismissed on the grounds of an "improper" and "clandestine" relationship between the two.
Roman states that Wade used the legal fees from his work on the Trump case to take Willis to California, Florida, and on Caribbean getaways.
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