State v. Hughes (Lawyers Weekly No. 011-012-18, 4 pp.) (Per Curiam) Appealed from Colleton County Circuit Court (Larry Hyman Jr., J.) S.C. App. Unpub. Holding: Defendant argues that her actions (claiming exempt status and not filing a state income tax ...

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COLUMBIA (AP) — A former Columbia city councilman who served prison time for tax evasion has permanently surrendered his South Carolina law license.

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A South Carolina state representative is back in court this week for a retrial on tax evasion charges.

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Long time Columbia city councilman and convicted felon E.W. Cromartie II had an interesting argument for why the South Carolina Supreme Court shouldn’t disbar him from the profession. Cromartie, who spent ten months in federal prison for tax evasion, asked the court during an Oct. 4 hearing not to strip him of law license because he feared it would hurt his namesake son, E.W. Cromartie III, who is also an attorney.

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The state Hospitality Association's former accountant will be sentenced Tuesday for stealing nearly $500,000 from her employer over six years to support a gambling addiction her attorney says started with video poker in the late 1990s.

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U.S. v. Jinwright A couple who served as co-pastors of a North Carolina church are convicted of tax evasion for omitting millions of dollars of taxable income from their jointly filed tax returns; the 4th Circuit rejects the taxpayers’ claims that they did not “knowingly” underreport their income.

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