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Aftershocks from a bombshell disclosure by Lowcountry, South Carolina school board member Michele Leber regarding her husband – first-term state senator Matt Leber – continued to rattle the Palmetto political firmament this weekend as the scope of allegations confronting the state lawmaker and his intimates rapidly expanded.
And as calls for his resignation mounted…
For those of you who missed the detonation, on Saturday morning (August 2, 2025) Michele Leber – a first-term representative on the Charleston County school board – publicly accused her husband of infidelity with a political consultant named Rebecca Madsen. According to her, the duo traveled to Versailles, Kentucky together on a romantic getaway this weekend.
As of this writing, Leber and Madsen are still believed to be in the state of Kentucky.
“My husband senator Matt Leber is with his whore Rebecca Madsen,” Michele Leber wrote in a since-deleted Facebook post.
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As FITSNews subsequently reported, records from the S.C. State Ethics Commission (SCSEC) revealed Matt Leber paid Madsen approximately $4,750 from his campaign account since December of 2023 for various itemized services including “political consulting” and “campaign labor.” Of interest? The senator’s campaign account showed a deficit of nearly $8,000 after he blew through more than $50,000 during the past quarter – a conspicuously high volume of expenditures considering his next election is not until June of 2028.
This media outlet has spoken with at least two constituents of Matt Leber who said they planned on submitting formal requests for an SCSEC investigation into his campaign finances – the first round of potential problems for the embattled lawmaker in the aftermath of his wife’s revelations.
In addition to payments from Leber’s campaign organization, Madsen was recently tapped to serve as treasurer of his newly-launched Take the Oath PAC – an organization which kicked off its fundraising push at an event at Leber’s home last month. That gathering – held on July 18, 2025 – included an appearance by former S.C. lieutenant governor and U.S. Senate candidate André Bauer, and featured endorsements from state senators JD Chaplin, Carlisle Kennedy, Josh Kimbrell, Everette Stubbs and Jeff Zell and state representative James Teeple.
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Michele Leber accompanied her bombshell post with multiple receipts – including copies of text messages reportedly exchanged between Madsen and senator Leber as well as an illicit image Leber is said to have supplied his purported paramour.
Michele Leber also intimated more detonations could be coming… specifically referencing allegations involving Madsen and other elected officials.
“There are more married men,” she publicly alleged, referring to Madsen. “She has had multiple affairs and likely blackmail on others. Divorces coming!”
Madsen’s estranged husband, Rob Madsen, echoed the allegations in a comment left on social media.
“Rebecca and I are in the middle of a divorce brought on by these types of issues,” he wrote on Facebook.
FITSNews is currently investigating these allegations – and other information provided to our media outlet about senator Leber and his intimates in the aftermath of Michele Leber’s stunning revelations.
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Prior to being outed, Matt Leber had consistently touted himself as a “family values” Republican.
“Family is the bedrock of our society and therefor a natural target for the radical left,” Leber wrote on his campaign page, accompanied by a picture of himself surrounded by children.
Leber further claimed to “have stood for traditional values” and vowed to “continue to safeguard the sanctity of the family.”
Needless to say, local Democrats pounced on his hypocritical comeuppance.
In a statement issued on Sunday morning (August 3, 2025), Charleston County Democrat Party (CCDP) chairman Thomas Dixon noted “hypocrisy seems to be the standard by which Leber and his MAGA Republican cronies live.”
“Like polished snake oil salesmen, they routinely tout themselves as the morally conscious ‘religious right’ while constantly getting caught violating the moral principles they hold others to,” Dixon wrote.
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The @ChsDems have issued a statement on the @VoteLeber scandal… pic.twitter.com/eMVTIPzyfZ
— FITSNews (@fitsnews) August 3, 2025
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Dixon also blasted Michele Leber for outing her husband “like a juvenile beefing with another child instead of handling the matter as an adult, a professional and a seated member of our county school board.”
Democrats weren’t the only ones blasting Matt Leber. One of his staunchest supporters – S.C. State House candidate Carlton Walker – called on him to step down “ASAP” over the scandal.
“I’m calling for Matt Leber’s resignation from the South Carolina Senate,” Walker said in a video posted to his Facebook page. “He does not represent this party.”
Walker cited Leber’s payments to his alleged mistress, claiming they were curiously timed to coincide with his “going and staying at AirBnbs in California and Arizona.”
According to Walker, Matt Leber’s donors “did not donate that money for him to be spending it on frickin’ traveling and giving money to the person he’s having an affair with.”
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In addition to their elected offices – and Matt Leber’s newly launched PAC – the Lebers had become the epicenter of an increasingly influential Republican fiefdom in Charleston County.
That fiefdom has now been razed to the ground…
“Matt’s political career may survive, but all we’ve built is done,” one of Leber’s closest supporters told FITSNews. “We had an opportunity to really make a difference. (That’s) gone.”
The worst could be yet to come, too…
In addition to affair allegations too voluminous to count (potentially involving multiple South Carolina elected officials), Leber’s campaign finances – and other aspects of his senatorial office – are starting to come under intense scrutiny as well. Count on FITSNews to dig deep into each and every facet of this story, and to report back to our audience as we are able to verify relevant information…
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR…
Will Folks is the founding editor of the news outlet you are currently reading. Prior to founding FITSNews, he served as press secretary to the governor of South Carolina. He lives in the Midlands region of the state with his wife and eight children.
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Seems to me his wife is engaging within criminal conduct.
Adultery is so common these days, very few really do not care. If you enjoy related vindictive type gossip, remember the assistant state prosecutor who was fired for snooping in her coworkers and boss’s office computers and desk drawers – ran to WCSC news as if she was so upright and just? Her vindictive nature, narcissistic arrogance. legal incompetence, and karma bit her in the butt.
Odd she was not disbarred. But, hey! SC’s corrupt system has always been alive and well
What criminal conduct is Ms. Leber engaging in by outing her husband’s affair? You think liking their text messages is some sort of computer crime? If so, that’s laughable.
You will find out! As will everyone spewing hateful lies! Those caught spreading lies will face justice!
“Another one bites the dust” ????
If that is the mistress on the couch beside him, can’t say that I blame him. Men were built to seek out new warm and moist places. To boldly go where other men have been before.
Especially with floozies like her
Is “home wrecking” a value of the Freedom Caucus?
Charleston County Democratic Party Chairman was out in the streets praising the notoriously violent BLM felons. Like he has morals? LMAO!
Going public about a spouse’s affair for revenge almost never produces the desired result, and if you have children, it hurts them the most. Just get the divorce [if you can’t get through it with lots of counseling -and it is possible, albeit rare], tell your children privately why, and try to get on with your life with some semblance of dignity.
If the desired result is to publicly humiliate the cheating spouse and his mistress, then I’d say mission accomplished.
Leber claims to have been in the Army Special Forces, specifically 10th SFG. I called him when he first ran for office and he told me then that he was only a support troop. His characterization is very misleading. As a 21 year veteran of Special Forces, I resent people making false claims of joining a unit that requires very difficult and long training. That is a form of stolen valor. It also makes him a liar.
Proof?
Glad to see like-minded people calling out the stolen valor types. Most of the ones who used to blatantly claim SOG affiliations, ranks, medals have somewhat fallen off because they get busted so easily these days. Now you have those who just make fuzzy/vague “hero adjacent” statements that are calculated to make people believe certain things which they didn’t explicitly say, but they sure told the tale in just such a way to allow people to assume it, and they make no effort to later clarify the sophistry. Case in point, did you look into Sen. Stephen Smith trying to make it sound like he was injured in combat in some podcast interviews when in fact he was just hurt in a gym exercise incident? He is a skillful liar – he almost makes it an art form.
Correction – Sen. Stephen Goldfinch, not Smith.
Why do you reply to your own post with different names?
Sheeshus! His wife has no place on a school board acting like she does. She stole his text messages between state of senators and other government officials, too??????
Beckie probably does butt stuff.
If so, I bet it is good!
Media outlets are evil, ruining the lives of millions of Americans with lies & half-truths! We have seen Presidents blatantly lied about and people fall for those lies! Intelligent people understand that there are always three sides to a story: her side, his side and somewhere in the middle lies the truth!
The judgement of the masses compounds the damage done by a woman who is lying about her victimhood! By her posts she does not speak of her prior knowledge of her failed marriage with negotiations having already begun between herself and her soon-to-be ex-husband! Anyone with a functioning brain can see by her frantic, disjointed, angry, accusatory, and at times nonsensical posts that she is more than unhinged!
For those who have faced uncontested divorce in S.C., they realize, putting their lives on hold for 2/3 years after a year of separation, is a prison sentence! All the while divorcing couples in G.A. Have only to wait 30/60 days for an uncontested divorce!
No one should be labeled a cheater when they and their spouse are living separate lives while working through divorce!
Nor should one spouse do to the other irreparable, intentional damage with lies and half-truths for any reason!
And then we add in the ugly folks
Who take pleasure in the pain of others! Responsible journalism is as dead as common sense! FACT! Our Country is a cesspool of lies, coverups, corruption, human trafficking, exploitation of innocent, precious children! And less and less people care that the Country is built on lies!
Do journalists research and dig for truth? Do they even know what integrity means? Naw, why should they actually do any real research when they can go online and grab screenshots of rants posted by an unhinged, vengeful soon-to-be ex-wife!
Blaming a soon-to-be ex for the divorce is a twisted story as old as time! Instead of accepting partial responsibility for the failed marriage, she has taken the opportunity to seize control of the narrative all while her obvious emotional instability, brewing for decades, destroyed her career, her soon-to-be ex-husband’s career! But the most egregious aspect of this atrocity is the blowing up of her children’s lives, creating more pain and suffering than they would have if she would have protected them!
Don’t defend the cheater! (Most say). Yet no one actually knows the truth, do they? But the masses gobble up the lies and gossip like swine at the trough!
Which kind of person are you?
Are you a swine revelling in their pain and suffering OR are you praying for the entire family?
Matthew 7:1-6
“Do not judge, or you too will be judged.2 For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.
3 “Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? 4 How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? 5 You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.
The drama that often happens when marriages move into the divorce phase. When children are involved and custody battles might appear, the mud slinging and wilful lies start.
Domestic lawyers drool over these kinds of cases if the litigants have money and assets. Have seen cases where certain female lawyers who do nothing but domestic cases have been repeatedly caught fanning the flames inorder to generate more profit for themselves. They have their own paid hoes on their team for court ordered mental health counseling for children, too
One female SC lawyer got rattled pretty hard when she found out the feds were prepared to charge and prosecute her. The feds even learned the judge in the case was in on the female lawyer’s illegal outrageous behavior. Federal statutes have expired. However, state never will. She can still be charged.
Exactly!
People who jumped to judgment without the facts, will be swallowing down their regurgitated lies! It’s sad that people accept lies but never seek the truth. But these lies are libel leading to the destruction of an entire family!
Seems like his ship is sinking.