Fulton County’s District Attorney, Fani Willis, is facing renewed legal scrutiny for allegedly recording a confidential phone conversation without the other party’s consent. Christopher Kachouroff, the attorney for former President Donald Trump‘s co-defendant Harrison Floyd, claims Willis unlawfully taped a phone call with one of his Maryland-based associates — violating the state’s two-party consent law.
“She did reach out to us, one of my colleagues in Maryland, and was rude, abrupt with him on the phone, and he was dealing with the Maryland case, and I was dealing with the Georgia case, and she ended up recording him,” Kachouroff said in an interview on Tuesday with legal analyst Phil Holloway. Maryland state law requires that any recording of a conversation receive consent from both parties involved. Violations of the law could result in up to five years in prison or a $10,000 fine.
Willis appears to have survived an attempt earlier this year to disqualify her from the RICO prosecution she brought against former President Donald Trump and 14 other co-defendants. Attorneys for the defendants accused the District Attorney of impropriety by having a sexual relationship with special prosecutor Nathan Wade prior to her appointing him to the case. Wade has subsequently stepped down from the prosecution after Fulton County Superior Judge Scott McAfee determined that either he or Willis would need to remove themselves from the case.
Wade, meanwhile, finds himself facing a contempt of court charge after his estranged wife, Jocelyn Wade, claimed the former special prosecutor had not contributed financially towards their children and her emergency medical expenses.