Reflections on the Fani Willis Disqualification Hearing in Georgia

One of the unyielding pleasures,  in viewing MSNBC commentary on the Fani Willis disqualification hearing, is MSNBC’s fanatical belief that strong, independent, educated, flamboyant Black women cannot be corrupt.

Growing up in Brooklyn, amid Mafioso, one learns again   and again that no race, or gender, or educational level, or religion is immune from corruption. Corruption is an equal opportunity disease, like the plague.

Fani Willis is the strong, Black,  independent, female District Attorney, in Fulton County, Georgia; who loves all cash transactions. Who knew strong, Black, independent female District Attorneys have the same aversion to paper trails, as Mafioso and drug cartels.

Ms. Willis, in her capacity as District Attorney, brought a case against former President Donald Trump and a host of his associates, for trying to steal Georgia’s electoral votes in the 2020 election, in a most clumsy fashion.

The case should have been a slam dunk; for President Trump was on  tape asking for unseemly and untoward favors from Georgia’s election officials.

Alas, while trying to bring down an ex-President, DA Willis engaged in an all cash transactional sexual relationship with a lawyer; she had hired as a Special Prosecutor, Nathan Wade.

One of Trump’s codefendants caught wind of the affair;  and filed a motion to disqualify Ms. Willis, Mr. Wade and her team, from bringing the Trump Case to conclusion.

In Georgia,  the land of RHETT BUTLER and SCARLETT O’ HARA; having an affair with a subordinate you hired,, is not  cause for being disqualified from serving as a prosecutor on any case.

However, if the sexual relationship between the two consenting adult prosecutors led to financial benefit for the lovers; then the lovers can be disqualified.

Ms. Willis stated, under oath, that she did not begin to sleep with Mr. Wade until after she hired him; after  they spent those long sweaty nights together, over law books.

However, if Ms. Willis and Mr. Wade were fornicating amid law books, before she hired him; that puts a whole  different tone and appearance of impropriety on the situation.

Why?

For once Mr. Wade was hired, he sat in on the interviews, for the rest of the Prosecutorial team and had vital input, on who was and who was not hired.

Surprisingly, Mr. Wade hired two of his law firm associates as Prosecutors, Mr. Bradley and Mr. Campbell. They were in fact his law partners; each owned a third of the law firm..

As their invoices piled up and were paid by Fulton County, Mr. Wade, being their law partner, in a law firm with three partners, Wade, Bradley and Campbell, received from all their remittances, ONE THIRD OFTHEIR EARNINGS.

In the ole Mafioso run Brooklyn, the practice of hiring your friends for kickbacks was called FEATHERBEDDING.

Did Fani Willis partake in getting a kickback from the monies paid to Bradley and Campbell….or even Wade?

Who knows?

And Fulton County taxpayers may never find out because Ms. Willis only deals with cash; so, there is no paper trail. Unless……the Atlanta Police Department  gets a warrant and seizes all the 100 dollar bills Ms. Willis has stashed in her different houses; dusts them and discovers Mr. Wade’s, or Mr. Bradley’s or Mr. Campbell’s fingerprints on the Benjamin Franklins.

Justice not only has to be just, but MUST have an appearance of propriety in its dispensation. 

Massive amounts of cash lying around a DA’s home does not lend credence to the appearance of Ms. Willis’ financial propriety.

Ms. Willis should be disqualified.