Trump prosecutor Nathan Wade billed Georgia DA $4,000 for White House meetings

The special prosecutor that Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis is accused of having an “improper” relationship with billed the Fulton County DA’s office $4,000 for two eight-hour meetings with White House officials while overseeing the election interference case against former President Donald Trump, according to court documents.

The apparent meetings attended by Nathan Wade, an Atlanta-based private attorney hired by Willis to assist in the prosecution of the Trump and his co-defendants, took place in 2022 after he was tapped for the role, according to invoices included in a bombshell court filing by Michael Roman, a former Trump 2020 campaign official.

Roman argues in the court filing that Willis should be disqualified from the case and the charges against him dropped because of her alleged “improper, clandestine personal relationship” with Wade.

The services rendered by Wade in conjunction with the case seemingly included attending an event with White House counsel in Georgia and a meeting at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, the invoices show. 

Wade, who has been paid nearly $654,000 in legal fees by the Fulton County DA’s office since January 2022, billed eight hours of work – at a $250 hourly rate –  for a May 23, 2022, event listed in an invoice as “Travel to Athens; Conf with White House Counsel.”

On Nov. 18, 2022, Wade charged the county another $2,000 for an “interview with DC/White House.”

Both meetings took place well before Trump’s Aug. 14, 2023, Georgia indictment, but after Willis asked a Fulton County judge in January 2022 to impanel a special purpose grand jury to assist in her investigation of 2020 election interference. 

It’s unclear what Wade discussed with White House officials during those two apparent meetings. 

Last September, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) demanded that Willis detail any contact her office has had with federal officials about her prosecution of Trump, a request the DA refused to comply with. 

Jordan, a staunch defender of Trump, argued that Willis’ case could be “designed to interfere with the 2024 presidential election,” in which the 77-year-old is the Republican front-runner against President Biden.

Willis, in a chiding response to Jordan, accused the committee chairman of lacking “a basic understanding of the law” and attempting to “intrude upon and interfere with an active criminal case.”

Roman’s filing claims that “sources close to both the special prosecutor and the district attorney” have confirmed that Willis and Wade had an ongoing fling, and that Wade filed for divorce in Cobb County, Ga., “a day after his first contract with Willis commenced” in November 2021. 

The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday Willis has been subpoenaed to testify in Wade’s divorce proceedings. 

Roman’s motion argues that Willis’ failure to disclose her alleged relationship with Wade while paying him for his work on the Trump case – funds that he also allegedly used to pay for lavish vacation with the DA – could amount to honest services fraud as well as “a predicate act which could result in a RICO charge against both the district attorney and the special prosecutor.” 

Trump and Roman were both hit with racketeering charges in Willis’ case against them and 17 other co-defendants under Georgia’s Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act.

Roman served as the Trump re-election campaign’s director of Election Day operations in 2020. 

In the wake of the former president’s 2020 loss, Roman allegedly joined an effort to put forward slates of pro-Trump “fake electors” to reject President-elect Joe Biden’s victories in key swing states such as Arizona, Georgia, Michigan and Nevada.

He was charged with seven felony counts last August by the Georgia grand jury convened by Willis. 

Wade, the Fulton County DA’s Office and the White House did not immediately respond to The Post’s requests for comment.