COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The final two former South Carolina lawmakers charged in a nearly eight-year investigation into corruption at the Statehouse have avoided time behind bars. Former Sen. John Courson was ordered Thursday to serve 100 hours of community ...

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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Richard Quinn Sr., a longtime political consultant to a number of high-profile Republicans in South Carolina, has pleaded guilty to lying to a grand jury and been sentenced to 18 months of home detention. Quinn entered ...

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COLUMBIA (AP) — South Carolina’s attorney general has sent four unresolved Statehouse corruption cases to a Republican prosecutor in Spartanburg County to handle. The state Supreme Court ruled in January that a Democratic prosecutor, David Pascoe of Orangeburg, exceeded his ...

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COLUMBIA (AP) — A special prosecutor who pursued public corruption cases against several South Carolina politicians turned over his remaining caseload to state Attorney General Alan Wilson on Wednesday. In a letter to Wilson, Solicitor David Pascoe wrote that “procedural ...

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A South Carolina sheriff found guilty of misconduct for using his power and office to push a personal assistant to have sex with him was sentenced Friday to the maximum of a year in prison. Former Greenville County Sheriff Will ...

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State Attorney General Alan Wilson’s inaction impeded an investigation into corruption at the South Carolina Statehouse, whether he intended it to or not, according to a State Grand Jury report released Tuesday after a two-year investigation. In response, Wilson told ...

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A judge has ordered the release of a State Grand Jury report on political corruption in South Carolina. Media outlets report judge Clifton Newman gave attorneys until Friday to offer their thoughts on information that should be redacted during a ...

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COLUMBIA (AP) The former chairman of one of South Carolina’s most powerful legislative committees is set to go on trial later this year on charges that are part of a wide-ranging, ongoing probe into Statehouse corruption. A judge on Aug. ...

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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — One of South Carolina’s longest-serving state senators pleaded guilty to a corruption charge Mune 4 and resigned. Republican Sen. John Courson entered a guilty plea to misconduct in office the same day his trial was supposed to ...

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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A suspended South Carolina state senator is set to go on trial on misconduct charges. Trial is scheduled in Columbia on June 4 for Sen. John Courson, who is also charged with converting campaign money to his ...

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