Developing: A former friend of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis told a judge that Willis’ relationship with special prosecutor Nathan Wade began in 2019, before Willis hired Wade to help with the Georgia election case and earlier than Wade acknowledged in an affidavit.
Robin Yeartie, who also worked for the DA’s office and has not spoken with Willis since Yeartie resigned in 2022, said she had “no doubt” Willis was in a romantic relationship with Wade beginning in 2019 and said she witnessed them in social settings hugging and kissing. Wade is now on the stand.
Wade is now on the stand – and reiterated his earlier statement that the relationship began in 2022, specifically in March of that year. He also said that Willis reimbursed him for travel expenses in cash – and her insistence on paying her own way was sometimes a point of contention in their relationship.
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