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wyethwire Donating Member (648 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-01-04 06:43 PM
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GOP Ag commissioner charged with extortion
State agriculture chief charged with extortion

BY AARON GOULD SHEININ

Knight Ridder Newspapers


COLUMBIA, S.C. - (KRT) - S.C. Agriculture Commissioner Charles Sharpe was arrested Thursday and charged with extortion, money laundering and lying to law enforcement agents in connection with a cockfighting operation.

The 12-count federal indictment alleges Sharpe took money to protect a S.C. cockfighting operation while he was a state House member and while running for agriculture commissioner in 2002.

Cockfighting is illegal in South Carolina.

http://www.tallahassee.com/mld/tallahassee/news/nation/9285315.htm
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wyethwire Donating Member (648 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-24-04 09:49 PM
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1. who's Sanford going to appoint
heard any good rumors lately?
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