Republicans are trying to serve a subpoena on former special counsel Nathan Wade, but have no idea where he is.
The House Judiciary Committee wants to force the disgraced prosecutor to testify about his personal relationship with Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis after it was revealed the two were dating last year.
Willis, who brought the Georgia election interference case against Trump, said their affair was a thing of the past, but police body camera footage showed them together when Willis’ daughter, Kinaya, was arrested on Aug. 24.
Willis has been surrounded by scandal since his romantic and financial relationship came to light after she appointed him as special prosecutor in the case.
Trump has accused Willis of a “display of racial animus” toward him, calling her case “a calculated effort” to draw criticism away from him and “herself.”
Meanwhile, Wade has still not been found, as the House Judiciary Committee said it has been unable to locate him over the course of several days.
The House Judiciary Committee has been unable to locate former special prosecutor Nathan Wade to serve him with a subpoena, likely issued to compel the fallen Fulton County prosecutor to testify about his relationship with prosecutor Fani Willis. The couple is shown together in August 2023.
Willis, who brought the Georgia election interference case against Trump, said their affair was a thing of the past, but police body camera footage showed them together when they arrested Willis’ daughter, Kinaya, on August 24. An image from the arrest can be seen here.
“Nathan Wade’s evasion of duty is extremely unusual and will require the Committee to expend U.S. tax dollars to track him down,” a spokesperson for the House Judiciary Committee said in a statement.
Meanwhile, a Republican lawyer familiar with the matter said: The Washington Examiner that the U.S. Marshals Service has been unable to find Wade for days and that “at this time, we know he is trying to avoid service.”
The source called the lawyer’s actions “clearly dilatory,” several months after a judge ordered him to resign from his position in the election interference case so Willis could stay on.
Committee spokesman Russell Dye further confirmed The Atlanta Journal-Constitution The committee has turned to U.S. marshals to locate him so he can be summoned to a hearing Thursday in Washington.
“The Judiciary Committee has delivered more than 100 subpoenas to this Congress,” Dye said.
“We’ve done this, for the most part, without controversy or the need to use U.S. marshals.”
He reiterated how U.S. tax dollars will now be spent “to track him down,” while Wade’s own attorney, Andrew Evans, told the Journal-Constitution that his client “has nothing that would be of interest” to the committee.
Trump has accused Willis of engaging in a “public display of racial animus” toward him, calling her case “a calculated effort” to draw condemnation against him and “take her away from herself.”
“This is all political theater,” the lawyer said in a statement. “Doesn’t Jim Jordan have more important things to do?”
Representative Jim Jordan of Ohio is the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, whose series of requests seek to examine Willis’ handling of the election case against Trump and several of his supporters.
Trump claimed Willis, 52, is trying to interfere with the 2024 vote after pleading not guilty to racketeering and other charges stemming from what prosecutors allege was a scheme to overturn Trump’s 2020 loss in Georgia.
The case has been on hold since June while a Georgia appeals court considers whether lead prosecutor Willis should be disqualified for alleged misconduct linked to her romantic relationship with Wade, who resigned in March.
The pair looked remarkably similar to a couple from just weeks ago in police body camera footage obtained exclusively by DailyMail.com, filmed together at the scene of their pregnant daughter’s arrest for allegedly driving with a suspended license.
The footage shows them arriving in a black Ford pickup truck before approaching a group of police officers on the side of the road in Tyrone, Georgia.
Officers mistake the couple for Kinaya’s mother and father, but Willis corrects them, describing Wade, 51 (who resigned as her special prosecutor when their affair came under public scrutiny) as “just a friend.”
Kinaya’s older sister, Nia, 26, a passenger in her brother’s silver Nissan Altima, had called her mother after the arrest at 7:03 p.m.
When Willis and Wade arrived, their daughter was already on her way to the Fayette County Jail, 30 minutes south of Atlanta, on a misdemeanor charge of driving with a revoked or suspended license.
She was released later that day and Wade has not been photographed publicly since.
In a letter accompanying the subpoena, Jordan explained how Wade’s attorney, Evan, had already agreed that his client would voluntarily submit to a transcribed interview a week ago, on Sept. 18.
However, the meeting never materialised, with Jordan revealing how Evans asked to postpone it days before, before telling him later. Wade would not appear due to concerns raised by former Gov. Roy Barnes.
Barnes, who is also an attorney, is representing Willis in the upcoming case, which the district attorney has called an attempt by House Republicans to “obstruct a criminal prosecution in Georgia and promote outrageous misrepresentations.”
News of her relationship with Wade first emerged in January, prompting a litany of requests for documents related to her work in the ongoing impeachment proceedings against Trump.
In body camera footage, officers mistake the pair for Kinaya’s mother and father, but Willis corrects them, describing Wade, 51, as “just a friend.”
Kinaya Willis, 25, daughter of the Fulton County District Attorney, was handcuffed before being booked into the Fayette County Jail for driving with a suspended license.
In a letter to the committee sent a few weeks ago, Barnes said Willis had objected to Wade providing the documents, calling the demands “inappropriate.”
Barnes also asked the district attorney’s office to have a representative present at Wade’s interview, so that Willis could “protect sensitive and confidential information related to ongoing criminal cases.”
“Any interview with Mr. Wade could implicate secret grand jury information, confidential investigative sources, and information protected by attorney-client privilege, work production, and deliberative process, among others,” Barnes wrote.
Meanwhile, the congressional investigation continues, with some continuing to criticize it as an effort by Trump allies to undermine Willis’ prosecution of the politician.
His case suffered a setback earlier this month when a Georgia judge dismissed two criminal charges in the election interference case and another charge against co-defendants who also pleaded not guilty.
Fulton County Judge Scott McAfee ruled that state prosecutors lacked authority to file the charges, which related to the alleged filing of false documents in federal court.
The ruling meant that five of the original 13 criminal charges against Trump in the indictment obtained last year have now been dismissed.
In March, McAfee dismissed six other charges, including three against Trump.
Trump attorney Steve Sadow said in a statement that the recent ruling showed that Trump and his legal team “have prevailed once again.”