SC Supreme Court Race: Why Diane Goodstein Lost
INSIDE THE UNRAVELING OF A SUPREME COURT CANDIDACY … Lowcountry, S.C. circuit court judge Diane Goodstein withdrew her name from consideration as a Supreme Court...
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#ProbeGate: Pressing On
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SPECIAL PROSECUTOR TURNING UP THE HEAT Earlier this week, we ran an exclusive report detailing the latest machinations in an ongoing investigation of public corruption at the...
#ProbeGate: A New Sheriff?
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IS STATE HOUSE ANTI-CORRUPTION INVESTIGATION WORKING AGAINST THE CLOCK? The ongoing public corruption investigation of S.C. first circuit solicitor David Pascoe has renewed the faith of many...
More Problems For Jimmy Merrill
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DID PROSECUTORS MISS SOMETHING? S.C. Rep. Jimmy Merrill is already staring down more than six decades in prison in connection with a thirty-count indictment handed...
SC House Republicans: All Quiet On #ProbeGate
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ISSUE LEFT UNADDRESSED IN CLOSED-DOOR GOP GATHERING … When S.C. House Republicans met for the first time this year at a closed-door caucus meeting on the...
Larry Grooms Under Campaign Finance Microscope
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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...
#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...