Trump ally emerges from shadows to deal blow to Georgia case against former president

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Trump ally emerges from shadows to deal blow to Ga. case against former president

Mike Roman is in the spotlight after his bombshell allegations of an improper relationship between Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and a lawyer she hired to help prosecute the former president

By Jon Swaine, Shawn Boburg and Josh Dawsey
February 2, 2024 at 8:00 a.m. EST


Mike Roman, seen in his booking photo Aug. 25 in Atlanta, is charged along with Donald Trump for allegedly conspiring to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia. (Washington Post illustration; iStock; Fulton County Sheriff's Office/AP)

As Mike Roman spoke to a gathering of fellow conservative activists in March 2022, he offered a glimpse of the intelligence-gathering skills he had honed over the previous decade working as an opposition researcher for Donald Trump and Republican megadonors. ... “I show my wife this all the time when we go to a hotel,” Roman told the crowd in Harrisburg, Pa., according to an audio recording reviewed by The Washington Post. “She logs on to the Hilton WiFi, and I go on and I ‘tap, tap, tap,’ and I show her everybody else that’s on there and how we could get into their computer.”

After spending years digging in the shadows, Roman is now in the spotlight, having landed a damaging blow to the racketeering case that Georgia prosecutors are pursuing against Trump and more than a dozen others — including Roman — for trying to overturn the 2020 election. Roman has pleaded not guilty.

In a bombshell legal filing on Jan. 8, Roman’s attorney alleged that Fulton County District Attorney Fani T. Willis (D), who is heading the prosecution, is in a romantic relationship with Nathan Wade, an outside lawyer she hired for the case. While Wade’s firm was receiving more than $650,000 in public funds, Wade — who has been embroiled in a messy divorce — was paying for vacations with Willis in the Caribbean and elsewhere, according to Roman, who alleges that Willis improperly benefited.

Willis and Wade have not said whether they are in a relationship, and a temporary agreement reached this week in Wade’s divorce case spared him from having to answer questions under oath.

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Holly Bailey contributed to this report.

By Jon Swaine
Jon Swaine joined The Washington Post's investigative team in 2019. He previously worked as a senior reporter for The Guardian, and as a reporter and foreign correspondent for The Daily Telegraph. Twitter https://twitter.com/jonswaine

By Shawn Boburg
Shawn Boburg is a reporter for The Washington Post's investigative unit. He was previously an accountability reporter for the Metro section. He joined The Post in 2015. Twitter https://twitter.com/ShawnBoburg

By Josh Dawsey
Josh Dawsey is a political enterprise and investigations reporter for The Washington Post. He joined the paper in 2017 and previously covered the White House. Before that, he covered the White House for Politico, and New York City Hall and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie for the Wall Street Journal. Twitter https://twitter.com/jdawsey1

[Fullduplexxx]

1. I wouldnt call it a blow to the case but everyone's entitled to their opinion

[eppur_se_muova]

2. Leader of an ad hominem attack which doesn't mitigate the criminal offenses listed in the filings against Def 91. nt