South Carolina Treasurer Curtis Loftis says calls for him to resign over an accounting error that left the state sorting out what happened to a $1.8 billion fund amounted to a witch hunt.
We can’t allow a treasurer to be pushed out because of other people’s failures” South Carolina Treasurer Loftis told a House Ways and Means panel.
After calling it premature in April, columnist Matthew T. Hall argues an accounting scandal and a Securities and Exchange Commission investigation are too big for Loftis not to leave now.
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SC Treasurer Curtis Loftis says transparency is the cornerstone of his administration, and he's been unfairly criticized over existence of $1.8 billion
The South Carolina Treasurer defended his actions to a House committee Wednesday, amid calls for his resignation.
Statehouse leaders are calling for the resignation or impeachment of state Treasurer Curtis Loftis over a $1.8 billion blunder that remained on the state's ledger for nearly a decade.
This comes after an independent forensic audit determined an accounting error was responsible for nearly $2 billion mysteriously sitting in South Carolina’s bank account.
Kennedy, along with State Treasurer Curtis Loftis and former Comptroller General ... nearly 10 years of public service to the State of South Carolina and wish him well,” said Loftis, in a ...
COLUMBIA, S.C. — It turns out that $1.8 billion in South Carolina state funds weren ... and should the elected state treasurer, Curtis Loftis, step down or be impeached.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WSPA) – George Kennedy, South Carolina’s State Auditor, resigned from office Thursday. Kennedy, who has served in the position since October 2015, sent a letter of resignation to Governor Henry McMaster and the State Fiscal Accountability Authority.
For the last year, close watchers of South Carolina’s politics have been on the edge of their seats, waiting to discover the source of $1.8 billion that was mysteriously discovered in a state bank account. How did it get there? Why didn’t officials ...