The House Judiciary Committee asked former Fulton County special prosecutor Nathan Wade on Thursday to appear for an interview with Congress to address “serious concerns” surrounding his work on the election-related case against former President Donald Trump in Georgia.

The committee requested that Wade provide by next week numerous records related to his time working under District Attorney Fani Willis and that he schedule a meeting with the committee, according to a letter obtained by the Washington Examiner.

“There are serious concerns about your role in the politically motivated prosecution initiated by Ms. Willis against President Donald J. Trump,” committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) wrote.

Willis hired Wade, a private attorney with no experience working on the racketeering crimes alleged in Trump’s case, at the end of 2021. Her office proceeded to pay Wade more than $600,000 in less than two years for his work on the case while Willis carried on an undisclosed romantic relationship with him.

Trump and several co-defendants called for Willis to be disqualified after they learned of the relationship, and after two drama-filled months of the court scrutinizing her potential conflict of interest, a judge decided that Willis could rectify the matter by removing Wade from the case. Wade resigned immediately, but now Trump is in the process of appealing the judge’s decision to allow Willis to continue with the former president’s prosecution.

Despite ruling in Willis’s favor, the Fulton County judge heavily criticized Willis’s actions and said an “odor of mendacity” remained on the case. Wade and Willis, the judge said, left open questions about whether they lied during sworn testimony about aspects of their relationship, such as when their relationship started.

In his letter, Jordan asserted that the committee had grounds to investigate Wade because some of Willis’s payments to him originated from federal grant money.

“The Committee understands that Ms. Willis reportedly compensated you and financed her politically motivated prosecution using a mixture of taxpayer funds, possibly including part of the $14.6 million in federal grant funds that her office received from the Department of Justice between 2020 and 2023,” Jordan said.

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Jordan said he initially asked Wade for records related to Willis in January but that instead of Wade responding, Willis responded with an “unsolicited” letter to the committee and did not comply with the committee’s requests.

The request to Wade is the latest instance of the pair of prosecutors continuing to experience fallout from the scandal. The case is now wrapped up in appellate court proceedings that legal experts say could push the trial until after the 2024 election. Additionally, a special Georgia Senate committee is investigating Willis’s handling of public funds, primarily because of her hiring of Wade.