Questions have been raised about the qualifications of the special prosecutor hired by Willis to lead a high-profile case. The prosecutor, Nathan Wade, has a thin résumé and lacks experience in racketeering cases, which is crucial for this unique case involving a President. Legal experts in Georgia are expressing concerns about the prosecutor's suitability for the job.
Willis had hired a special prosecutor named Nathan Wade , in November of 2021, to lead the case, which she’d launched in February of that year. But when Arora dug into his background, last fall, he thought that Wade had an oddly thin résumé for someone working on such a high-profile case . Wade had spent his career as a private defense lawyer, often fighting misdemeanor charges, and later as a municipal-court judge. He’d never worked on a racketeering case.
“He really didn’t appear qualified to lead a RICO prosecution,” Arora, who had also worked in the Fulton County D.A.’s office, two decades ago, told me. Georgia has an unusually broad racketeering statute, which Willis is fond of using. “Most lawyers in this state aren’t qualified to do it, and here you’re talking about using it in the most unique way in American history—going after a President,” Arora said. “And the D.A. hires someone that hasn’t had any serious felony experience, much less something at this level?” Others in Georgia’s legal community felt similarl
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