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A court hearing that's to decide whether Fulton County, Georgia, prosecutor Fani Willis will be booted from her organized crime claims against President Donald Trump and others is awaiting closing arguments – and then a decision from Judge Scott McAfee.
But that's not the only hurdle Willis now is facing: She has a looming ethics hearing that will address several complaints filed against her.
The case McAfee heard, and will decide, focuses on Willis' hiring of a lawyer, Nathan Wade, to develop her organized crime claims in the case.
The issues are many, including their relationship before and during the assembling of the case, whether she benefited, through that relationship, of tax money she awarded to Wade, and much more.
The judge is holding a private hearing with one witness who could provide evidence but has ethical complications because he served as Wade's lawyer for a time.
Then closing arguments are expected, and a decision that could let Willis, an extreme leftist who insists that Trumnp's election concerns, in fact, were organized crimes, continue.
Or whether she'd be booted, a move that could allow the case to disintegrate entirely.
It is Newsweek that said Willis is facing a "special meeting" on March 7 that is to address two separate ethics complaints filed against her.
It is the Fulton County Board of Ethics that will hear evidence on the complaints, including one by Greg Mantell, founder of the Substack blog Investigative News Service. The other is from Steven Kramer.
A report posted at RollingOut reported Mantell's complaints are over Willis' expense reports, contracts, and spending for 2021-2023.
"A second complaint reportedly was lodged by Steven Kramer, part of which alleges that Willis violated the RICO Act and 'has a strong connection to a revolutionary group that was anti-White,'" the report said.
By the nature of the ethics complaint process, few other details were public immediately.
The report explained, "Former federal prosecutor Neama Rahmani categorized the hearing [before McAfee] as 'damaging for both Willis and Wade, personally and professionally,' and said the way Willis has handled the allegations — combative, more expansive than warranted, seemingly parsing syllables in her answers — has been an 'unmitigated disaster.' Willis has even drawn mild rebukes from McAfee, whose favor she needs if she wants to remain on the case against Trump."
The analysis continued, "Part of that probably can be explained by the role reversal Willis is enduring — she’s usually the one asking questions and putting witnesses on the defensive and now bristles at finding herself on the receiving end of the same treatment. Rahmani seems to hint that Willis could be playing into her opponents’ hands by giving them ammunition to paint her as the stereotypical angry black woman."
Rahmani noted it shouldn't affect the legal merits involved, but "the optics are bad."
"She should cut her losses, step down, and have someone else take over this prosecution."
On the claims Willis and Wade were in an affair, one analyst found, "A consensual relationship among peers is not normally a problem. But if you lie to a court about when the relationship started and whether reimbursements were made, that's game over."
