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Greenville SC Is Buzzing …

… AND WITH GOOD REASON Rick Erwin is a big muckety muck in Greenville, S.C.  He’s a successful restaurateur and a member of the board of directors of the S.C. Hospitality Association – a group that’s always angling to separate you from your tax dollars. In fact if you don’t…

… AND WITH GOOD REASON

Rick Erwin is a big muckety muck in Greenville, S.C.  He’s a successful restaurateur and a member of the board of directors of the S.C. Hospitality Association – a group that’s always angling to separate you from your tax dollars.

In fact if you don’t know just how important this guy is, check out this nauseating puff piece that ran a few years ago in The Greenville News .

“It would appear that sometimes Erwin does not have an off switch,” reporter Lillia Callum-Penso wrote. “On a Friday evening, the restaurateur and chairman of the South Carolina Hospitality Association moves about his Rick Erwin’s West End Grille greeting guests table-side, moving through the kitchen, checking in with the folks behind the bar, weaving between the servers.”

“Blink and he’s gone,” Callum-Penso noted, later adding that Erwin “can barely stay in his seat.”

Sheesh … is that journalism?

No … but it might have been if Callum-Penso had bothered finding out to whence Ervin disappeared.

We did.  In fact, FITS has obtained some interesting video of a man alleged to be Erwin applying his legendary “personal touch” to one of his female patrons.

Here’s a still frame from that video …

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Nice …

Luckily for Erwin we’ve cleaned up our site in recent months and are not posting the racy video associated with this image.  Nor are we getting into the “who, what, when, where and why” of the powerbroker’s domestic issues (Erwin’s wife, Greenville attorney Ingrid Erwin, was also prominently featured in The Greenville News  puff piece).

We do hope he follows S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control (SCDHEC) protocol in washing his hands before handling food, though.

We’d hate to see one of his restaurants get a “B” grade …

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86 comments

Thank you so much! August 6, 2014 at 4:50 pm

That’s right. Get convicted of “sharing” coke – run for the US Senate and FITS is on your side baby complete with excessive coverage.

Own a few restaurants and dry hump a willing female patron – FITS is right there to make sure the world knows. Thanks for looking out for us bro.

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Whine with your cheese? August 6, 2014 at 7:13 pm

Thirteen guest votes eh? How many friends did you call?

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Pete August 6, 2014 at 9:13 pm

I just saw the video. Low class all the way. Pulling up the lades skirt in a public hallway is inexcusable.

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CNSYD August 7, 2014 at 8:10 am

Apparently you only have 2 friends.

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Golf clap for your dumb ass August 7, 2014 at 10:01 am

Calling all my buds to give me a “thumbs up” on my righteous indignation post, in response to some tertiary site posting a video of me rubbing some skank’s twat and then leading her to another room while married, would be a tough sell with the crowd I hang with…obviously that’s not the case for you and him.

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Blake August 6, 2014 at 4:52 pm

C’mon man, it’s South Carolina…where fingering your employees and slapping them on the ass is par for the course.

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truthmonger August 6, 2014 at 6:48 pm

Ah…. you’ve been out to that restaurant in Harbison, too!

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Nyuk Nyuk Nyuk August 6, 2014 at 7:32 pm

That is HYSTERICAL! You are super funny, keep up the good work!

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CNSYD August 6, 2014 at 4:53 pm

Sic Willie is questioning whether the G’ville News article was “journalism”? That’s rich! Pot meet kettle.

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Columbia Insider August 6, 2014 at 5:21 pm

Crosby, Nash, Stills, Young … and Dumbass.

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CNSYD August 6, 2014 at 6:22 pm

Did I touch a nerve talking about your bud Will?

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Stink Finger August 6, 2014 at 4:54 pm

You’re not showing the video cause it’s bee deleted from youtube.

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Squishy123 August 6, 2014 at 9:17 pm

No it hasn’t.

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skm August 6, 2014 at 5:11 pm

the “puff piece” as you put it was not nauseating. and why are you attacking a reporter who’s won countless press assoc. awards?
now the subject in question? well that’s a different story. use some levity in your nauseating shock piece.

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Will Folks aka Sic August 6, 2014 at 7:13 pm

a press association award in this state simply means you bend over well … like the girl in this clip …

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CNSYD August 6, 2014 at 7:28 pm

Translation: Sic Willie doesn’t have one and therefore denigrates any one who does.

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Manray August 6, 2014 at 7:37 pm

Oh God, the planets have aligned again and I’m in agreement with Sic!

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Mike at the Beach August 7, 2014 at 12:25 am

Don’t worry bro…happens to the best of us every once in a while.

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RHood2 August 6, 2014 at 8:00 pm

On this statement, Wil, you are full of shit. Lot of faults with the state’s papers, but the ones that do it well, excel. And didn’t need to show T&A to build a following.

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TontoBubbaGoldstein August 7, 2014 at 9:32 am

…didn’t need to show T&A to build a following.

“Lighten up, Francis.”
Back in the day, TBG accessed FITSNEWS for the articles.

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truthmonger August 8, 2014 at 12:01 pm

Gotta ask…. was the girl’s name Tina? She looks familiar.

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Stinky Pinky August 8, 2014 at 10:58 pm

Allegedly it is Nathalie Morgan

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UGAalumni August 6, 2014 at 5:25 pm Reply
TontoBubbaGoldstein August 6, 2014 at 8:35 pm

“Baby got back!”

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Squishy123 August 6, 2014 at 9:16 pm

Well someone has some explaining to do when he gets home. What exactly could he have been looking for by lifting her dress up?

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Hell's Kitchen August 6, 2014 at 9:34 pm

He ran out of crabs during his crab cake special.

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Smirks August 7, 2014 at 8:48 am

“Check, please!”

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sara October 7, 2014 at 1:30 pm

how about his long time affair

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Smirks August 7, 2014 at 8:43 am

Clicked expecting a way hot chick, extreme disappointment shortly afterwards.

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andy January 15, 2015 at 9:11 am

LOOK AT HIM??????????? WHAT did you really expect??????? And he is a complete sleeze!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Redneck's in sportcoats August 7, 2014 at 10:03 am

The funniest part of that video is the guy who thought he was gonna nail the drunk hoe, before the vulture swept in and stole his meat.

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BossHog August 7, 2014 at 1:15 pm

Bring out the gimp!

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William Mulligan August 8, 2014 at 9:45 am

Link has been taken down. Watched it last night, but was removed by this AM. Apparently in the F&B, Legal community, this is old news in Greenville.

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downtownfOOdie December 27, 2014 at 11:53 pm

that link is down. but this link works (for now)

http://somevid.com/P06xQJl8NXCNR97doVKy

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shifty henry August 6, 2014 at 6:28 pm

Who is the dude to the right?

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Pr0n star August 6, 2014 at 7:35 pm

Fluffer?

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gman August 20, 2014 at 8:20 pm

the story is out that her ex was in on this. I have heard that he was the one you ask about on the right
. Regardless, it takes a special individual to do this in front of anybody.

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Columbia Outsider August 6, 2014 at 6:47 pm

FITS must be searching hard for news to run this – especially since it is old news. Oh!, but that is what journalism is these days – report the juicy raunchy gossip instead of the real problems being created by our government! Or, the rising crime rate! No, report crap like this and hide behind the freedom of the journalism statement.

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GrandTango August 6, 2014 at 6:50 pm

There goes his chance to be governor!!!…

PS: You know there are uptight liberal women working w/ FITS now. For him to refrain from releasing that video hate to KILL him.

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Deo Vindice SC August 6, 2014 at 9:23 pm

All republicans should be shot !

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T, Woods August 6, 2014 at 6:59 pm

Dude better watch out, messing around on a wife with Scandinavian blood. Those women are crazy- I found out the hard way…

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Columbia Outsider August 6, 2014 at 7:03 pm

I just found out that the video was illegally obtained. And a good friend of mine who is an attorney- states law suits will most likely be coming. Again, I am sure you will hide behind your responsible journalism statement.

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Will Folks aka Sic August 6, 2014 at 7:12 pm

I don’t hide behind anything.

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CNSYD August 6, 2014 at 7:30 pm

That’s why you haven’t published your book on your “affair” with Haley?

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GrandTango August 6, 2014 at 7:55 pm

Ervin didn’t either…LMAO….

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TontoBubbaGoldstein August 6, 2014 at 9:52 pm

I don’t hide behind anything.

Neither does TBG.
The Krispy Kreme Kiosk and Golden Corral put an end to that possibility years ago.

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Mike at the Beach August 7, 2014 at 12:28 am

Really? Civil litigation can be a full contact sport, and that would be a genuinely interesting series of depos and (maybe) trial for homeboy to sit through…

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Puddin' August 7, 2014 at 5:23 pm

Well they can hire the lady in the video, because she just so happens to be a local attorney. Allegedly the lady in the video is Nathalie Morgan

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John August 7, 2014 at 9:29 pm

I think you’re right. I was trying to place her, and that seems to be the woman. More pelvic exam than bar exam in this video.

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truthmonger August 8, 2014 at 10:25 pm

Full-service divorce attorney? Maybe a new way of drumming up business? LOL.

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truthmonger August 8, 2014 at 10:20 pm

He’s still a POS. He can sue, and his life can be dissected like a dead frog once he files. Go for it….

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PDA with no shame August 6, 2014 at 7:04 pm

It’s just a little bit of role playing, he’s playing politician and she’s playing taxpayer.

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Soft Sigh from Hell August 6, 2014 at 7:28 pm

Geez, most places supposedly just make you wash the dishes if you come up short on cash.

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Manray August 6, 2014 at 7:35 pm

Just about everything that appears in the Greenville News is puffery. It is a tame media outlet bearing it’s share of the failure of the fourth estate in SC. The Greenville News is complicit in the perpetuation of the corruption and cronyism that pervades this state.

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Godslayer August 7, 2014 at 2:09 pm

You got that right. The Greenville News is essentially a booster publication whose predominant goal is to protect the moneyed class. It reverses H.L. Mencken’s view of the role of newspapers because it comforts the comfortable while afflicting the afflicted.

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Correctomundo August 7, 2014 at 2:26 pm

It’s pretty much the same with the Charleston Post & Courier too.

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Yawn August 6, 2014 at 7:35 pm

Yawn . . . slow news day, huh? And why are you so frigging upset that The Greenville News – the hometown paper of the city where Erwin runs two fabulous restaurants – wrote a feature story about Erwin and his restaurants and also mentioned his wife? Get a life!

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Chew and Choke August 7, 2014 at 10:54 am

Fabulous my ass. Rick got his start as the steak buyer for Ryan’s for godsake.

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Hate and Spit August 7, 2014 at 1:23 pm

Have you ever eaten at one of his restaurants? Or are you just hating and jealous of his success?

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Dumbass August 7, 2014 at 4:08 pm

And did one helluva job apparently. The upstate loves his product and I hear he does pretty well in Charleston to boot.

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guest September 20, 2014 at 3:14 pm

He doesn’t own a restaurant in Charleston, idiot.

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navyguy September 20, 2014 at 3:43 pm

He owned a restaurant on Villa Road in Greenville a few years ago but got mired with legal issues with a partner there (imagine that?) and was evicted by the partner guy (property owner)
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Deo Vindice SC August 6, 2014 at 9:21 pm

They call them Republicans, why is new shit for you guys ?

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buttchop August 20, 2014 at 7:10 pm

Yeah, Bill Clinton and Ted Kennedy were well known republicans right?

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Smirks August 7, 2014 at 8:42 am

Ugh. Do not want.

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tasteslikechicken August 7, 2014 at 9:47 am

hey…he’s performing a public service…..it was brought to his attention that this woman had drugs on her, and he was looking for crack….case solved….

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Libtard August 7, 2014 at 10:27 am

Why has no one asked why this woman was on a fucking bike?

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Godslayer August 7, 2014 at 12:29 pm

The real scandal involving Rick Erwin is that he used his position on the Greenville City Council to ban food trucks from downtown Greenville, thereby using his position of public trust to protect his own business interests from competition.

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vicupstate August 7, 2014 at 1:10 pm

He is not on city council and never has been.

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Just Another Idiot August 7, 2014 at 1:24 pm

When was he on Greenville City Council? The City of Greenville has no record of him serving . . .

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That's not a bribe August 8, 2014 at 9:32 pm

That’s how Greenville’s good ole-boy net work rolls. Ask Jim Burns, no conflict of interest there… Try building something on land you own and see how large of a donation (bribe) is required to the council election fund to get permits.

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Pre Vert August 7, 2014 at 1:12 pm

That’s no bike it’s a freaking walker

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willblogformoney August 7, 2014 at 3:55 pm

It was just the reverse Heimlich maneuver. She had a pig in a blanket stuck in her ass.

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TyroneMamaCollards August 8, 2014 at 10:10 am

This is pornographic without any socially redeeming value. Momma would have a stroke if she saw this.

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yeahTHATrickerwin August 8, 2014 at 12:20 pm Reply
Navytime August 9, 2014 at 9:16 pm

I knew the facade would eventually crack. If you talk with people (including me)
who have worked with him you would know that his life revolves only around Rick.

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NosyNeighbor August 11, 2014 at 11:39 pm

I can’t locate Rick Erwin’s video…anybody have a link or YouTube title?

Thanks.

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gman August 19, 2014 at 6:55 pm

Rick Erwin has been hiding behind a fake facade for years. Callum Penso says he dodges the question as to why he left Ryans. It was not good. I shared a business with him. Not good either. He has a dark side and on occasion it oozes out for public consumption.

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anna October 7, 2014 at 1:38 pm

How about his girlfriend that lived in his apartments?????

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anna October 8, 2014 at 8:30 am

the tall blond that use to live in his apartments above his restaurant ??????

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anna January 10, 2015 at 2:54 pm

He cheats on his wife all the time! This is OLD NEWS!!! And the women in the video is just one of the many!!!!! GC the blond that lived above the restaurant for a few years was also one of his women. Many many many…..his wife is either in complete denial or just doesnt care. The man is always on the hunt. YUCK!!!!!!!!!

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stephanie January 10, 2015 at 3:02 pm

We dont go in his restaurants ………and nor do my friends. When in the bar and he is there he is always on the hunt!!!! Unless his wife is around!!! YUCK

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candy March 2, 2015 at 7:06 pm

RICK ERWIN is the biggest cheater in town!!! EVERYONE knows it!!! (except his wife) LOL!!! He will do about anyone married or single..Married I know for sure!!!! Whoever posted the video caught him just like he really is. Only when his wife is around does he act like he is such a goodie husband!!! We all laugh!!!!

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john April 4, 2015 at 9:09 pm

He has a different girlfriend now…..he MUST have a open marriage…..?????

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john April 4, 2015 at 9:12 pm

his new women comes in his restaurants with other men and he does his sly flirting..they both disappear for a bit..come back and whoever the girlfriend came in with is waiting for her…RE is very slick!!!! As we all laugh!!!!!! LOL

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Mike April 18, 2015 at 12:00 pm

RICK Erwin. Had. A affair for years with a. Women that lived in Cincinnati. Well known with everyone!!!! This guy has a open marriage

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