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Bookkeeper pleads guilty to stealing $1 million from Charleston company
Karen Rhett, a 58-year-old Mount Pleasant resident, pleaded guilty in federal court to stealing more than $1 million from her former employer, Simmons Realty Co. Acting U.S. Attorney M. Rhett DeHart said Rhett served as the Charleston real estate company’s bookkeeper, where she managed and controlled company finances, including payroll and taxes in the mid-1990s. […]
Engine fire at Boeing S.C. plant pivotal to Supreme Court case
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case involving a fire at Boeing’s final assembly plant in North Charleston. The case could end up significantly changing the way companies that do business internationally resolve their disputes, not just in the United States, but across the globe. Servotronics, an American parts[...]
Charleston sues 24 ‘Big Oil’ companies over climate change effects
Charleston Mayor John Tecklenburg and other city officials have filed a lawsuit (.pdf) against 24 fossil fuel companies, in an attempt to hold them accountable for the city’s costs to adapt to climate change. Tecklenburg made the announcement at a news conference on Wednesday, which he held at The Battery almost three years to the […]
Legal perspective: Are businesses allowed to refuse cash payments?
Lately there has been confusion regarding whether businesses have the ability to refuse cash payments, instead relying solely on credit card transactions or electronic funds transfers such as mobile payment apps. This switch to “cashless” has left many people confused on just what these businesses are allowed to do.
Pro bono legal help expanded for small businesses, nonprofits
A Charleston pro bono organization and several law firms are expanding efforts to help business owners and nonprofits in South Carolina navigate economic and legal issues surrounding the coronavirus pandemic. Charleston Legal Access, Nelson Mullins, and Jackson Lewis are expanding the S.C. Virtual Legal Clinic, the organizations said in a news release. The clinic, which […]
Mount Pleasant, Summerville pass face-covering laws
Following the lead of several other cities and towns, Mount Pleasant and Summerville passed emergency laws Monday to require face coverings within town limits. Gov. Henry McMaster has not asked for a statewide mandate for face coverings, even as he has urged businesses and members of the public to wear masks and to make prudent […]
Circuit court clarifies Episcopal property ownership
The latest chapter in a dispute over church property between the national Episcopal Church and a group of breakaway churches has been filed by a circuit court judge in Dorchester County. The dispute over ownership of church properties, which include St. Philip’s Church on Church Street and St. Michael’s Church on Bro[...]
Lowcountry man sentenced to over 5 years for fraud scheme
A federal judge has sentenced a Lowcountry man to over five years in prison for a fraud scheme that stole over a million dollars from dozens of people between 2016 and 2018.
Court denies Parish’s request for release
A federal judge has denied Ponzi schemer Al Parish’s request for compassionate release, ruling that he failed to establish a basis for meeting the requirements for a reduction of his sentence and release. Parish, 62, argued last month that COVID-19 “imminently threatens” his life because of his underlying medical conditions. Parish says he suffers from […]
Parish asks to be released from prison because of COVID-19
Convicted Ponzi scheme mastermind Al Parish, who swindled about $66 million from hundreds of people, is asking the court to release him from prison in light of the coronavirus pandemic. Parish was sentenced in June 2008 to 292 months in prison and is held in the low-security federal correctional institution in Butner, N.C. Parish has […]
Charleston School of Law selects new dean
The Charleston School of Law has named Larry Cunningham to replace outgoing dean Andy Abrams, the school said in a news release. Cunningham has been a law professor at the St. John’s University School of Law in Queens, N.Y., for 12 years. President J. Edward Bell III said Cunningham was selected after a national search […]
We have the best city, but we can’t rest on our laurels
After so many years of being rated the No. 1 city in the entire universe, it took us a little work to digest this new-to-us ranking from U.S. News & World Report. The great state of South Carolina is not No. 1, nor No. 2 or even No. 22. The Palmetto State ranks 42nd in […]
