Updated at 7:45 A.M. E.D.T.



House Republicans finally served a subpoena on the former boyfriend of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, Nathan Wade, as they investigate Ms. Willis’s tactics in her racketeering prosecution of President Trump and his associates.&nbsp; 



Mr. Wade made arrangements with the United States Marshals Service to be served the subpoena on Thursday evening, the New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/09/26/us-news/nathan-wade-served-subpoena-in-congressional-fani-willis-probe-after-evading-service-for-nearly-a-week/">reported</a>. The subpoena was issued on Friday, September 20.



The House Judiciary Committee had said Mr. Wade could not found, and suggested they might have needed to engage the Marshals Service at taxpayer expense to locate him.&nbsp;



In a statement to the Daily Caller, the committee said it was “extremely unusual” that they have been unable to locate Mr. Wade, who was forced off the prosecution of Trump in May when the presiding judge ruled that an “odor of mendacity” was hanging over the case due to Ms. Willis’s personal, romantic relationship with Mr. Wade, and her decision to pay him hundreds of thousands of dollars for his work despite his lack of experience as a criminal prosecutor.&nbsp;



“The Judiciary Committee has served over 100 subpoenas this Congress,” the committee spokesman, Russell Dye said in a <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2024/09/25/extremely-unusual-house-judiciary-commitee-unable-locate-nathan-wade-testify-fani-willis-investigation/">statement</a>. “We have done so, for the most part, without controversy or the need to use the U.S. Marshals.”



“Nathan Wade’s evasion of service is extremely unusual and will require the Committee to spend U.S. tax dollars to locate him,” Mr. Dye added.



<figure class="wp-block-image size-full"><img sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" srcset="https://wp.nysun.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Jordan-not-speaker.jpg 1024w, https://wp.nysun.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Jordan-not-speaker-300x200.jpg 300w, https://wp.nysun.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Jordan-not-speaker-144x96.jpg 144w, https://wp.nysun.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Jordan-not-speaker-768x512.jpg 768w" class="wp-image-173631" alt="Representative Jim Jordan meets with reporters to discuss his struggle to become speaker of the House, at the Capitol October 20, 2023." src="https://wp.nysun.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Jordan-not-speaker.jpg" height="683" width="1024" loading="lazy" decoding="async"><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">Representative Jim Jordan meets with reporters at the Capitol, October 20, 2023. AP/Jose Luis Magana</figcaption></figure>



Mr. Jordan first <a href="https://www.nysun.com/article/house-gop-threatens-to-hold-fani-willis-in-contempt-for-failing-to-turn-over-documents-about-her-politically-motivated-prosecution-of-trump">launched</a> an investigation into Ms. Willis back in February, when he demanded the embattled district attorney turn over all information about her use of federal funds and her potential communications with federal law enforcement officials in the Biden administration. She called any allegations of wrongdoing “false” and “baseless” in a letter the following month, after the committee threatened to hold her in contempt of Congress.&nbsp;



In February, Mr. Wade and Ms. Willis were subject to a grilling by defense lawyers for Trump and his other co-defendants on the stand in Fulton County, Georgia over the course of several days. Judge Scott McAfee, the presiding jurist, was unable to determine if Ms. Willis did use taxpayer funds for her own luxury vacations and personal enjoyment beyond a reasonable doubt (Mr. Wade and Ms. Willis had vacationed together in Aruba, the Napa Valley, and Belize, with Ms. Willis testifying that she reimbursed him with cash). Judge McAfee instead ordered that either Ms. Willis or Mr. Wade resign from the prosecution in order to preserve its integrity.



Mr. Wade promptly resigned.&nbsp;



Trump is appealing the ruling, asking that Ms. Willis also be tossed from the case, though the Georgia Court of Appeals will not hear those arguments until after the November election.&nbsp;



<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" srcset="https://wp.nysun.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/faniwade-1024x693.jpg 1024w, https://wp.nysun.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/faniwade-300x203.jpg 300w, https://wp.nysun.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/faniwade-144x96.jpg 144w, https://wp.nysun.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/faniwade-768x520.jpg 768w, https://wp.nysun.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/faniwade-1536x1039.jpg 1536w, https://wp.nysun.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/faniwade-2048x1386.jpg 2048w" class="wp-image-193416" alt="Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and her special prosecutor, Nathan Wade, on August 14, 2023 at Atlanta." src="https://wp.nysun.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/faniwade-1024x693.jpg" height="693" width="1024" loading="lazy" decoding="async"><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">The Fulton County district attorney, Fani Willis, and her then-special prosecutor, Nathan Wade, on August 14, 2023, at Atlanta. Joe Raedle/Getty Images</figcaption></figure>



Ms. Willis and Mr. Wade both claimed on the stand that their romantic relationship did not commence until he’d aready been hired by Ms. Willis, and by the time of the February hearing with Judge McAfee, their romance was over. But eight months later, in early September, the two appeared in public together when Ms. Willis’s daughter was <a href="https://www.nysun.com/article/fani-willis-shows-up-at-pregnant-daughters-arrest-scene-with-friend-nathan-wade-despite-saying-under-oath-their-secret-romance-was-over">arrested</a> in a neighboring county. Ms. Willis showed up at the side of a road near the scene of her daughter’s arrest, introducing herself as “Fani,” and describing Mr. Wade to officers as a friend.&nbsp;



Ms. Willis has also been subpoenaed by Georgia state legislators conducting an investigation into what they call rogue prosecutors. She has refused to cooperate.



As for Mr. Wade, he was ubiquitous on the media circuit for weeks following his resignation from the case, including an appearance on CNN, which was interrupted by his lawyers, on “Good Morning America,” where he said office romances were “as American as apple pie”, and on “The Daily Show,” where comedian Marlon Wayans simulated a “baby yoga” sexual position during a discussion about Mr. Wade’s sexual congress with Ms. Willis.



The Judiciary Committee, under the leadership of Chairman Jordan, has launched a flurry of investigations into various state, local, and federal agencies since Republicans took the House majority in 2023. The panel’s involvement in the now-dead impeachment inquiry also required substantial resources and manpower.&nbsp;



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The committee has taken the lead on probing the many prosecutions of Trump that have sprung up since 2023, and even considered writing legislation in the hopes of helping the former president prove his innocence. There was a notable push earlier this year by some House conservatives and Judiciary Committee members to slash the funding of Special Counsel Jack Smith and his prosecutions of Trump. 



They also <a href="https://www.nysun.com/article/house-gop-seeks-new-ways-to-rein-in-trump-prosecutors-including-moving-fani-willis-and-alvin-bragg-cases-to-federal-court">considered</a> a bill that would have given former presidents the ability to move state and local cases to federal court. While Speaker Johnson said he was open to such ideas, he abandoned any such plans in the face of opposition from Senator Schumer and President Biden.&nbsp;

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