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On 15 Mar 2022, Rudy Canoza <notgenx33@gmail.com> posted some news:xi4YJ.200634$oF2.33150@fx10.iad:

Blacks always do everything half-assed. Except for Fani, she spreads
her legs and ass cheeks for any dick she wants.

ATLANTA – Call him the bombshell witness that wasn’t. Not yet anyway.

After weeks of build-up, a top defense lawyer on Friday called the man
who she said knows all of the damning secrets of the “clandestine”
relationship between Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and the private lawyer she hired to lead the Georgia election fraud case against
former President Donald Trump and 14 others.

The witness, lawyer Terrence Bradley, was not only a law partner of
Nathan Wade, the special prosecutor who has admitted to having an affair
with Willis. He was also Wade’s divorce lawyer in his long-running
battle with his estranged wife.

Bradley’s testimony capped a tumultuous two days’ worth of hearings
called by a judge to determine whether Willis, Wade and the entire
Fulton County DA’s office should be disqualified from the case – or the
case dismissed outright – because of the relationship between the DA and
her top Trump prosecutor.

Bradley spent a brief time on the stand Thursday. Then he was a mystery
no-show Friday morning, claiming he was at a doctor’s appointment and
then awaiting the test results. Finally, the stocky attorney finally
arrived, and settled in for hours of questioning.

He was clearly not happy about it. Even under friendly questioning by
defense lawyers, Bradley spent much of his time giving as curt answers
as possible, and claiming that lawyer-client privilege prohibited him
from saying anything about what Wade had told him about his relationship
with Willis. Prosecutors – and Wade’s attorney – also fought to keep
Bradley’s mouth shut, especially when it came to what Wade had shared
with him about Willis.

A bombshell filing about an affair
Bradley was called as a witness by Ashleigh Merchant, the defense lawyer
for former Trump 2020 campaign operative Michael Roman, who claimed in a bombshell court filing Jan. 8 that Willis and Wade had been having an
affair before and during the time they were investigating Trump for
trying to hand the election in the state to Trump despite his loss to
Democrat Joe Biden.

What’s more, Wade was allegedly using some of the more than $650,000
he's made in the Trump case, which he joined Nov. 1, 2021, to take
Willis on lavish romantic vacations to Napa Valley, the Caribbean and elsewhere. That made the whole Trump prosecution irrevocably tainted,
Merchant has argued, because it amounts to a conflict of interest and “self-dealing” in which she improperly benefitted financially from
having an affair with the prosecutor she was paying.

Willis and Wade initially refused to comment on the allegations. But
after Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee ordered Willis to
respond by Feb. 2, she and Wade both filed affidavits acknowledging the “personal relationship.” Both, however, insisted that their romantic involvement began months after Willis hired Wade, thereby making it no different than other lawyer-to-lawyer relationships – and certainly no
grounds for their disqualification or dismissal of the case.

Later that same day, Merchant filed a response essentially calling
Willis and Wade liars, and saying she had evidence that their affair
started long before then and that it corruptly factored into her hiring
of the little-known private lawyer for the investigation in the first
place.

Torpedoing the Trump election case by disqualifying Willis?
This past Monday, McAfee held a preliminary meeting on whether to even
have the evidentiary hearing at all into whether to essentially torpedo
the Trump election case by disqualifying Willis and possibly her entire
office.

At that hearing, Merchant built up Bradley as key eyewitness who would
bolster her allegations. “The relevant information that Mr. Bradley has
is that this relationship started prior to Mr. Wade being appointed to
this case,” Merchant told the judge. “He has personal knowledge that
they hadstayed together. He’s got information about all of that.”

And in a recent court filing, Merchant went even further: “Bradley has non-privileged, personal knowledge that the romantic relationship
between Wade and Willis began prior to Willis being sworn as the
district attorney for Fulton County, Georgia in January 2021. Bradley
can confirm that Willis contracted with Wade after Wade and Willis began
a romantic relationship, thus rebutting Wade’s claim in his affidavit
that they did not start dating until 2022.” But on Friday, during hours
of legal back and forth about the arcane rules of what constitutes lawyer-client privilege, Judge McAfee ruled that Bradley really couldn’t
talk about anything Wade told him about Willis.

Defense lawyers, including Trump attorney Steve Sadow, did manage to get Bradley to confirm that he had been emailing and texting back and forth
with Merchant before she filed her explosive case dismissal request on
Jan. 8. Sadow asked to put into evidence to texts that Bradley admitted
Friday that he had sent to Merchant.

Trying to avoid the witness stand, but knowing the salacious details
about romantic cruises Even though he tried mightily not to say anything
on the stand, Bradley was forced to acknowledge that Merchant had sent
him a copy of her motion to dismiss Willis days before she filed it Jan.
8, including the salacious details about the cruises.

And even though he'd been representing Wade in his divorce, and had been
his law partner for several years, Bradley acknowledged that he texted
Merchant after reading the motion. “I said, ‘looks good,’” he testified
Friday.

What’s more, Bradley grudgingly acknowledged, in roundabout terms, that
his response to Merchant – and potentially other conversations she said
she had with him – were based on privileged information Wade had shared
with him.

If that is true, it means Bradley technically violated one of the key
ethical tenets of lawyerdom by revealing intimate information Wade had
shared with him with a third party without Wade’s authorization – and in
this case to a lawyer representing someone in one of the biggest legal
cases of the 21st century.

Anna Cross, a top prosecutor in Willis's office, got Bradley to admit
under cross examination that he was forced to quit the law firm he
shared with Wade because of sexual assault allegations by an employee
there.

Bradley emphatically denied the allegations, but conceded that the
employee received funds from his escrow account. Cross told the judge
her raising the issue was relevant because it went to the heart of
whether Bradley was a credible witness -- or someone with an ax to
grind, suggesting he might have made up things about Wade and Willis's
affair because of their falling out.

In concluding the hearing Friday, Judge McAfee said he wasn’t done yet.
He called for a private meeting between parties to figure out what to do
next. And he said that given that Bradley divulged information about
Wade to a lawyer for one of the Trump case defendants, he now has to
consider whether ordering Bradley to testify after all about what Wade
told him.

“Now I’m left wondering if Mr. Bradley has been properly interpreting
privilege this entire time,” the judge said.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2024/02/16/terrence-bradley- fani-willis-donald-trump/72635429007/

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