Larry Grooms Under Campaign Finance Microscope
STATE CAMPAIGN ACCOUNT EYED FOR QUESTIONABLE EXPENDITURES … One of the worst endorsements this website ever made was to get behind S.C. Senator Larry Grooms...
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#ProbeGate: Jimmy Merrill Plea Negotiations Are Underway
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WILL HE SING? Attorneys for embattled S.C. Rep. Jimmy Merrill have been meeting with prosecutors this week in an effort to negotiate a plea agreement...
#ProbeGate: Battle Looming Over Scope Of Investigation
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WHERE DOES SPECIAL PROSECUTOR’S AUTHORITY END? To say the “hammer fell” earlier this month on S.C. Rep. Jimmy Merrill would be a colossal understatement. The...
#ProbeGate: The Damning Jimmy Merrill Realtors Indictments
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THE DEFINITION OF PAY-TO-PLAY … For the better part of the last decade-and-a-half, the S.C. Association of Realtors has been widely regarded as one of...
#ProbeGate: Jimmy Merrill Released On Bond
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INDICTED LAWMAKER APPEARS IN COURT … Indicted S.C. Rep. Jimmy Merrill appeared before a state judge on Thursday and was released on a $146,000 personal recognizance...
#ProbeGate: How To Stop The Corruption
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THREE SIMPLE STEPS … This week’s thirty-count public corruption indictment of S.C. Rep. Jimmy Merrill was a seismic development with potentially far-reaching consequences for Palmetto State...
#ProbeGate: Jimmy Merrill Indicted
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LAWMAKER LATEST TO BE ENSNARED BY ONGOING ANTI-CORRUPTION INVESTIGATION S.C. Rep. Jimmy Merrill has been indicted by a statewide grand jury on “multiple counts,” according to...
Sources: Grand Jury Meeting Prior To SC Legislative Session
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SOMETHING’S GOTTA GIVE … South Carolina’s statewide grand jury will meet the week prior to the convening of the 2017-2018 S.C. General Assembly, multiple sources...
#Probegate: Indictment Fever
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BIG BUZZ SURROUNDING STATE HOUSE INVESTIGATION … We’ve previously reported that indictments were imminent in an ongoing probe of alleged corruption at the S.C. State...
#Probegate: Investigation Expanded
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ANTI-CORRUPTION INVESTIGATION MOVING OUTSIDE STATE HOUSE WALLS … Multiple sources familiar with the ongoing investigation into alleged corruption in the S.C. General Assembly tell us...