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What's up with this about Fani? I hope this doesn't derail the case, and I have no idea how to assess what Chris Timmons is saying here.

Chris Timmons, a longtime former Georgia state prosecutor and RICO and jury trial expert, said that Willis’ failure to address the more serious allegations in the motion could raise more questions than answers about whether her hiring of Wade was justified and why she picked him for such a high-profile assignment.

“It's not about the morality of it all, it’s about the legal ethics and being a good steward of taxpayer money,” said Timmons, an ABC News legal consultant. “You don't spend more than $600,000 in taxpayer money to help and hire a friend if they're not qualified to do the job.”

Timmons said the two other private-sector lawyers also hired by Willis, John Floyd and Anna Cross, do have much more relevant experience for such a high-stakes prosecution.

Timmons, who said he is familiar with Wade’s legal background, said he “doesn't have the experience that you would expect for somebody to run an investigation of this size.”

“If you go over to the doctor world, he's the equivalent of a general practitioner,” Timmons said. “And she's asking him to do brain surgery – and paying him like a brain surgeon.”

Clark Cunningham, a professor of law and ethics at Georgia State University College of Law, told USA TODAY he worried that allies of Trump might be trying to engage in a smear campaign against Willis by alleging such improprieties without including affidavits from witnesses willing to put their name publicly behind them.

“Whatever information they have, they should give it to the (Georgia) attorney general and let him investigate. And have the Georgia Bureau of Investigation look to see if there's a crime,” Cunningham told USA TODAY. “Or go to the new Prosecuting Attorneys’ (cq) Qualifications Commission, which is exactly designed to investigate and discipline this kind of behavior. Have they done all that?”

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2024/...

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