From The Strange Bedfellows File
MAKING FRIENDS IN UNEXPECTED PLACES … Earlier this week our website did a major exposé on a “dark money” shakedown effectuated under the auspices (actually...
s.c. state house
More Problems For Jimmy Merrill
by FITSNews
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
by FITSNews
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...
#ProbeGate: Imminent Indictments Cloud SC State House
by FITSNews
TICK-TOCK, TICK-TOCK … The specter of looming indictments hangs over the S.C. State House like an ominous storm cloud, turning the typically festive atmosphere accompanying...
SC Lawmakers Preview Their Fiscal Disaster
by FITSNews
THE MORE THINGS CHANGE … This week “leaders” of the S.C. General Assembly invited members of the mainstream media to Columbia, S.C. for a preview of...
Chris Corley Should Resign
by FITSNews
EMBATTLED LAWMAKER NEEDS TO STEP DOWN … This website has always liked S.C. Rep. Chris Corley. We were on opposite sides of the debate over...
#ProbeGate: Battle Looming Over Scope Of Investigation
by FITSNews
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: How To Stop The Corruption
by FITSNews
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
by FITSNews
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
by FITSNews
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...