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TexasTowelie

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Thu Oct 27, 2016, 02:50 AM Oct 2016

Sources: Any General Assembly public corruption indictments may come by December

COLUMBIA, SC -- A special prosecutor’s investigation into public corruption in the S.C. General Assembly may possibly result in indictments by December, according to sources familiar with the probe.

And two figures already named publicly as possible targets of the investigation – Reps. Rick Quinn, R-Lexington, and Jim Merrill, R-Berkeley – remain in play, the sources said.

Neither Merrill nor his attorney, Scott Schools, could be reached for comment Wednesday.

In an interview, Quinn told The State newspaper he has done nothing wrong and has heard nothing from any law agency.

Read more here: http://www.thestate.com/news/local/crime/article110686702.html

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