By Evan H. Krinick BridgeTower Media Newswires Two truisms: 1) smart people do stupid things; and 2) if something seems to be too good to be true, then it is probably not real. The first truism occurs when people forget ...

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The former CEO of a Greenwood, South Carolina, newspaper has pleaded guilty to stealing $17,000 from the paper. The Index-Journal reports former Index-Journal CEO Ed Gunderson pleaded guilty Monday to breach of trust and was sentenced to five years of ...

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While South Carolinians survey the damage that Hurricane Florence wrought on homes and businesses across the region, there’s another storm they must brace for: the inevitable wave of fraud and identity theft that trails natural disasters.

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A Rock Hill-based 3D printing company has agreed to pay shareholders $50 million to settle claims that the company’s management made false statements that caused its stock price to boom—and then crash just as fiercely once those misrepresentations were corrected. ...

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SPARTANBURG (AP) A former town clerk in South Carolina has been arrested and charged with misuse of traffic fines and two town credit cards. The State Law Enforcement Division said in a news release that 46-year-old Tamala Wingate Redd of ...

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Defendant provided plaintiff’s hotel with supplies worth more than $500, but the only writings before the court are two monthly statements. Whether these documents provide evidence as to the formation of a contract is a jury question; therefore, plaintiff is ...

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COLUMBIA (AP) A man who admits bilking a South Carolina project turning warheads into nuclear reactor fuel says he’s too old and too sick to go to prison. Philip Thompson, who admits the scheme took more than $5 million over ...

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Plaintiff alleges that, before he bought defendant’s bodybuilding supplements, he read and relied on the supplements’ labels (“Every ingredient in this formula is in a dose use[d] in clinical studies and my own gym to produce significant gains in size, ...

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MYRTLE BEACH (AP) A federal jury in New Jersey has found two former executives of a defunct South Carolina charter airline guilty of fraud for stealing millions of dollars in passenger money. Federal officials say in a news release that ...

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CHARLESTON (AP) Officials in South Carolina say a rising number of staged automobile crashes are becoming a problem in the state. Authorities say faked crashes were part of a scam that resulted in charges filed in November against 10 Pee Dee-area ...

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