(New York Post) Former Donald Trump prosecutor Nathan Wade was served a congressional subpoena Thursday after evading service of the summons for nearly a week.
The House Judiciary Committee issued the subpoena against Wade last Friday, demanding that he provide closed-door testimony as part of the Republican-led panel’s investigation into Fulton County, Ga., District Attorney Fani Willis’ prosecution of the former president.
Wade, who was forced off the Trump case after his workplace romance with Willis came to light, apparently went into hiding after the subpoena was issued, refusing to accept service until Thursday, a source familiar told The Post.
Six days after the subpoena was issued by the committee, Wade called the US Marshals and finally made an appointment for service, ending the standoff, the source said.
Earlier this week, a spokesperson for the committee characterized Wade’s evasion as “extremely unusual.”
“The Judiciary Committee has served over 100 subpoenas this Congress. We have done so, for the most part, without controversy or the need to use the US Marshals,” Russell Dye, a spokesman for the committee, said in a statement. “Nathan Wade’s evasion of service is extremely unusual and will require the Committee to spend US tax dollars to locate him.”
The spokesperson explained to Newsweek that since last Friday, Wade’s lawyer had declined accepting service of the subpoena and that Wade himself was unresponsive to the committee’s emails.
“As a result the committee had to use the assistance of the US Marshals, who have also not been able to find Nathan Wade,” Dye said Wednesday.
The subpoena called for Wade to provide testimony on Thursday, which will need to be rescheduled due to the delay.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan’s subpoena for Wade comes after the Georgia lawyer refused to appear for a voluntary interview last week after previously agreeing to it.
In a letter, Jordan (R-Ohio) revealed that Wade canceled on the committee because of instructions he received from Willis’ attorney.
“The eleventh-hour intervention from District Attorney Willis does not excuse your failure to appear for your transcribed interview,” Jordan wrote in a missive to Wade last Friday.
