Fulton County, Ga. District Attorney Fani Willis on Friday admitted to engaging in a "personal relationship" with an attorney she hired to manage the Georgia election interference case against former President Donald Trump, The New York Times reports.
The state prosecutor, however, argued that the relationship should not disqualify her or her office from managing the case against the former president and 18 co-defendants. The acknowledgment follows a month of scrutiny sparked by a co-defendant's motion alleging Willis and special prosecutor Nathan Wade engaged in an "improper clandestine personal relationship." The motion seeks to have the pair barred from handling the case.
