… 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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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.
Thirteen guest votes eh? How many friends did you call?
I just saw the video. Low class all the way. Pulling up the lades skirt in a public hallway is inexcusable.
Apparently you only have 2 friends.
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.
C’mon man, it’s South Carolina…where fingering your employees and slapping them on the ass is par for the course.
Ah…. you’ve been out to that restaurant in Harbison, too!
That is HYSTERICAL! You are super funny, keep up the good work!
Sic Willie is questioning whether the G’ville News article was “journalism”? That’s rich! Pot meet kettle.
Crosby, Nash, Stills, Young … and Dumbass.
Did I touch a nerve talking about your bud Will?
You’re not showing the video cause it’s bee deleted from youtube.
No it hasn’t.
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.
a press association award in this state simply means you bend over well … like the girl in this clip …
Translation: Sic Willie doesn’t have one and therefore denigrates any one who does.
Oh God, the planets have aligned again and I’m in agreement with Sic!
Don’t worry bro…happens to the best of us every once in a while.
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.
…didn’t need to show T&A to build a following.
“Lighten up, Francis.”
Back in the day, TBG accessed FITSNEWS for the articles.
Gotta ask…. was the girl’s name Tina? She looks familiar.
Allegedly it is Nathalie Morgan
This link works:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWuGTZkUV6g
“Baby got back!”
Well someone has some explaining to do when he gets home. What exactly could he have been looking for by lifting her dress up?
He ran out of crabs during his crab cake special.
“Check, please!”
how about his long time affair
Clicked expecting a way hot chick, extreme disappointment shortly afterwards.
LOOK AT HIM??????????? WHAT did you really expect??????? And he is a complete sleeze!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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.
Bring out the gimp!
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.
that link is down. but this link works (for now)
http://somevid.com/P06xQJl8NXCNR97doVKy
Who is the dude to the right?
Fluffer?
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.
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.
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.
All republicans should be shot !
Dude better watch out, messing around on a wife with Scandinavian blood. Those women are crazy- I found out the hard way…
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.
I don’t hide behind anything.
That’s why you haven’t published your book on your “affair” with Haley?
Ervin didn’t either…LMAO….
I don’t hide behind anything.
Neither does TBG.
The Krispy Kreme Kiosk and Golden Corral put an end to that possibility years ago.
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…
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
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.
Full-service divorce attorney? Maybe a new way of drumming up business? LOL.
He’s still a POS. He can sue, and his life can be dissected like a dead frog once he files. Go for it….
It’s just a little bit of role playing, he’s playing politician and she’s playing taxpayer.
Geez, most places supposedly just make you wash the dishes if you come up short on cash.
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.
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.
It’s pretty much the same with the Charleston Post & Courier too.
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!
Fabulous my ass. Rick got his start as the steak buyer for Ryan’s for godsake.
Have you ever eaten at one of his restaurants? Or are you just hating and jealous of his success?
And did one helluva job apparently. The upstate loves his product and I hear he does pretty well in Charleston to boot.
He doesn’t own a restaurant in Charleston, idiot.
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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They call them Republicans, why is new shit for you guys ?
Yeah, Bill Clinton and Ted Kennedy were well known republicans right?
Ugh. Do not want.
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….
Why has no one asked why this woman was on a fucking bike?
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.
He is not on city council and never has been.
When was he on Greenville City Council? The City of Greenville has no record of him serving . . .
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.
That’s no bike it’s a freaking walker
It was just the reverse Heimlich maneuver. She had a pig in a blanket stuck in her ass.
This is pornographic without any socially redeeming value. Momma would have a stroke if she saw this.
It’s on liveleak
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=d5f_1407262101
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.
I can’t locate Rick Erwin’s video…anybody have a link or YouTube title?
Thanks.
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.
How about his girlfriend that lived in his apartments?????
the tall blond that use to live in his apartments above his restaurant ??????
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!!!!!!!!!
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
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!!!!
He has a different girlfriend now…..he MUST have a open marriage…..?????
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
RICK Erwin. Had. A affair for years with a. Women that lived in Cincinnati. Well known with everyone!!!! This guy has a open marriage