According to a bombshell report from the Daily Caller News Foundation, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who is bringing RICO charges against Trump and more than a dozen members of his campaign and legal team, not only used her power to hire her lover to prosecute the case, but paid him a higher rate than she offered a RICO expert.
As background, the original allegations against DA Willis over hiring her lover, with whom she took numerous vacations after hiring him at a high salary to be the Special Prosecutor in the cases, came from Michael Roman. Roman served on the 2020 Trump Campaign as Director of Election Day Operations.
In the pleading submitted to the court by one of his lawyers, Roman’s legal team alleges that “the district attorney and the special prosecutor have violated laws regulating the use of public monies, suffer from irreparable conflicts of interest, and have violated their oaths of office under the Georgia Rules of Professional Conduct and should be disqualified from prosecuting this matter.”
In any case, the Daily Caller News Foundation based that report on contracts and court documents it obtained, in which the rates paid to both individuals for their roles in the Trump RICO case are revealed, giving lie to a claim made by Willis on Sunday, January 14th, when she claimed that she “paid them all the same hourly rate.”
According to the DCNF’s bombshell report, a contract that Fulton County DA Willis’ office entered into with John Floyd was for $150 an hour. Floyd, one of the three special prosecutors, is considered the leading RICO expert in Georgia and even wrote a book on state and federal RICO statutes.
By contrast, the special prosecutor Willis appointed for the case, Nathan Wade, was contracted for $250 an hour for his work on the case, the DCNF reports. However, DCNF-obtained court documents show that Anna Cross, the other special counsel, was also paid a $250 an hour rate, similarly to Wade. Further, the DCNF reports, “It’s possible Floyd was later paid at a higher rate, as the contract the DCNF obtained only extends through April 2022.”
