The special prosecutor was held in contempt for failing to comply with an order, one document shows.
Records in a divorce case involving a special prosecutor investigating former President Donald Trump were unsealed on Jan. 22, showing that the prosecutor was held in contempt for failing to comply with a court order.
Special prosecutor Nathan Wade is embroiled in divorce proceedings with Jocelyn Wade.
One of the unsealed records shows that Mr. Wade was found in contempt in August 2023 for failing to adequately provide discovery documents. An order that month stated that Mr. Wade could purge himself of contempt by delivering the documents.
In the months after the order, Mr. Wade failed to come into compliance with the court’s directives, according to Ms. Wade.
“Plaintiff has failed to provide, for example, personal financials and/or financials for his business(es) including but not limited to tax returns, bank accounts, and credit card accounts related to plaintiff’s business(es), and account statements for his individual bank and credit card accounts,” one filing on her behalf reads.
That’s part of “a pervasive pattern of what can only be described as a willful and deliberate effort” to withhold relevant information, another said.
Other filings allege that Mr. Wade has provided “nearly nothing” for “support and survival” to Ms. Wade despite that he has received nearly $700,000 from his employer since May 2022 and that she has been a stay-at-home mom for the past 26 years.
The only payments from Mr. Wade to his wife have been biweekly payments of $700, one filing states. But those payments have been undercut by Mr. Wade’s alleged use of the account in question for his own expenses.
The unsealing occurred on the orders of a judge, who ruled in favor of media outlets that had asked for the unsealing.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis appointed Mr. Wade as a special prosecutor. She has been accused of being in an improper relationship with Mr. Wade, and court documents show that Mr. Wade paid for her to fly with him to two different cities.
