Nathan Wade, a special prosecutor working with the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office, resigned his post after a judge ruled Friday that District Attorney Fani Willis and her office may remain on the 2020 election case involving former President Donald Trump and his allies if Wade stepped aside.
Wade’s resignation as special prosecutor came hours after Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee laid out two options that would allow for the continued prosecution of the racketeering case against Trump and his co-defendants stemming from an alleged scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 election in Georgia.
Well, he wasn’t pulling down measly pay, that was part of the problem. :)
I don’t think you understand what people in his position usually make
Well, the reporting was he was making something like 10x what the other prosecutors on the case were making…
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-fani-willis-atlanta-georgia-election-fraud-case-nathan-wade-1876152
"Wade earned an average of $25,149 a month for his first 26 months on the case despite never having prosecuted a felony, a Newsweek review of his invoices has found.
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Invoices and work contracts disclosed to Trump’s co-accused, Michael Roman, show that Wade was earning over $31,000 a month from July to November 2023 inclusive and has been on a rate of $250 an hour for the last two years."
and (same link)
“Invoices disclosed by Willis’ office show that from November 1, 2021, to December 31st, 2023, Wade earned $653,881 in total for the case.”
Compared with:
https://www.11alive.com/article/news/special-reports/ga-trump-investigation/nathan-wade-paid-substantially-more-than-fulton-special-prosecutors/85-c1fa7418-7608-4417-a685-2fbab1c450aa
"Newly-obtained public records from Fulton County suggest Wade was paid hundreds of thousands of dollars more than the other special prosecutors on the case.
Those records indicate the DA’s office paid special prosecutor John Floyd’s law firm Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore close to $73,000 between 2022 and 2023.
Special Prosecutor Anna Cross’s law firms — Cross Kincaid and The Cross Firm LLC — were paid a total of roughly $90,000 during the same years, records show.
Over the same time period, Fulton County records show the DA’s office paid The Law Offices of Nathan J. Wade approximately $653,880."
Sounds low to comparable cases to me
I wonder how many hours were billed for…
I mean, you look at the three prosecutors on the case:
One guy got over $600,000 compared to $73k and 80k. Yeah, not a good look.
You keep talking about this single case, and I keep talking about lead prosecutors in comparable cases.
Well, when you have three prosecutors assigned to the same case, and the one sleeping with the boss is making 10x what the other two are? That’s going to raise eyebrows.
What happens on OTHER cases isn’t really relevant, the disparity on THIS case is what people are looking at.
Bruh, when I say something along the lines of “what people usually make in this position for cases of this magnitude”, it literally begs to be compared to “OTHER” cases.
Comparing the lead prosecutors salary to supporting prosecutors salaries means very little in that context.
It’s like me saying “CEOs in this industry tend to make a lot more than this CEO was making” and then you saying " This CEO was making a lot more than his CFO, and his secretary, which is outrageous!"
While I might agree, it’s not exactly pertinent to the point I was making about lead prosecutors on cases of a similar magnitude…