Another Emergency SC Ports Meeting Scheduled
MORE “PORT POLITICS?” For the second time in as many weeks, the board of the scandal-scarred, results-challenged S.C. State Ports Authority (SCSPA) will gather for...
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#ProbeGate: Grand Jury Reconvening Soon
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MORE INDICTMENTS COULD BE COMING … A statewide grand jury tasked with issuing subpoenas, receiving testimony and returning indictments in an ongoing investigation of public corruption...
Port Of Port Royal: Finally Sold?
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PROPERTY TO BE UNLOADED AT LONG LAST … Thirteen years after it was shuttered, a government-owned port property in the South Carolina Lowcountry is finally...
#ProbeGate: GOP Solicitors Join Investigation
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“PROSECUTION TEAM” FORMED … Three Republican solicitors have joined Democratic special prosecutor David Pascoe in pursuing #ProbeGate – the ongoing, escalating investigation of corruption in South Carolina state...
Sources: Henry McMaster Being Kept In The Dark
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EMBATTLED GOVERNOR ALLEGEDLY MISINFORMED BY KEY ADVISORS … S.C. governor Henry McMaster’s decision to stick with embattled political advisor Richard Quinn has been described as either...
#ProbeGate: IRS Involvement
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FINANCIAL RECORDS UNDER SCRUTINY … Two-and-a-half months ago we filed a report addressing some of the allegations against suspended S.C. Rep. Jimmy Merrill – a report which also...
Alan Wilson’s Spokeswoman Departs
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PROBE-RELATED? S.C. attorney general Alan Wilson‘s spokesperson is leaving her job at the agency. Hayley Thrift Bledsoe – one of three young political operatives referred...
SC Ports Authority Suspends “Quinndom” Contracts
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AGENCY CITES SPECTER OF ONGOING INVESTIGATION … By a 5-3 vote, the politically appointed board of the S.C. State Ports Authority (SCSPA) voted this week...
SC Governor’s Race Reset
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IS THE GOP FIELD RE-OPENING? None of them will say so publicly, but four prominent Palmetto politicos are privately recalibrating their calculus when it comes to...
#ProbeGate: Point Of Origin
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HOW IT ALL STARTED … We did a lengthy post last week on the “past, present and future” of #ProbeGate – an ongoing investigation into...