Former Fulton County special counsel Nathan Wade is reportedly scheduled to testify before the U.S. House Judiciary Committee on next week, narrowly affording the Congress the opportunity to hear from Wade prior to Election Day.
Wade will be deposed, offering closed-door testimony to the committee led by Representative Jim Jordan (R-OH-04) on October 15, according to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
The report that Wade will testify comes after a saga that began when Jordan first sent a letter requesting Wade’s presence in Congress in May.
In that letter, Jordan noted the then-newly revealed relationship between Wade (pictured above) and District Attorney Fani Willis, who hired Wade to oversee her election case against former President Donald Trump and those who helped him contest the Georgia election results in 2020.
After removal proceedings were initiated against Willis due to the exposure of the relationship, it was eventually revealed that Wade paid for expensive vacations he shared with Willis using his company credit card during the period when he was compensated more than $650,000 by Fulton County for his work on the Trump case.
Willis and Wade separately claimed the former special counsel was repaid for the luxury vacations in unreported cash transactions, or by purchasing meals and excursions the couple shared during the trips. It was also alleged that Willis and Wade began their relationship years prior to his appointment as special counsel, but both Willis and Wade denied this claim.
Jordan’s earlier effort to hear from Wade culminated when the Atlanta-based attorney accepted a subpoena in September, but only after it was reported Wade evaded process servers for days. Wade ultimately testified last month.
According to The Washignton Examiner, Wade’s attorney said the attorney intends to “fully cooperate” with the committee, but questioned the legal grounds on which the subpoena was issued.
Willis’ case against Trump remains virtually frozen as the Georgia Court of Appeals considers whether the district attorney should be removed from the case due to her previously-undisclosed relationship with Wade.
Fulton County Judge Scott McAfee previously ruled that either Willis or Wade would need to be removed from the case in order to continue, but later allowed defendants to appeal his decision.
In a filing, Willis’ office suggested Wade’s removal should be a sufficient “boon” for Trump and his co-defendants. The appeals court is not scheduled to hold its first hearing until December 5.
Though Willis and Wade separately testified their relationship ended prior to its discovery by defense attorneys, both the district attorney and her former special counsel were recorded together on police body cameras at a traffic stop where the district attorney’s daughter was arrested in August.
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Tom Pappert is the lead reporter for The Tennessee Star, and also reports for The Pennsylvania Daily Star and The Arizona Sun Times. Follow Tom on X/Twitter. Email tips to [email protected].
