A former St. Matthews credit union manager was sentenced in federal court in Columbia Tuesday for embezzlement. 44 year old Orangeburg resident Chandra Brooks Spigner was convicted of stealing nearly $400,000 from the St. Matthews branch of the CPM Federal Credit Union from August 2002 through June 2004. She was sentenced to 37 months in prison and ordered to pay nearly $400,000 in restitution to the victims whose names she used in her scheme. Spigner created fictitious loans in the names of credit union members and non-members, and took the loan proceeds for herself. Spigner also added on to existing members loans, and made unauthorized withdrawals from member’s CD’s.
Legislative panel gives offshore drilling go-ahead, with objections
August 26, 2009 By Leave a Comment
It’s a debate among leaders at the national and state levels, but offshore drilling is set to get the go-ahead from a South Carolina feasibility study committee made up of legislators. Berkeley Senator Paul Campbell Jr. is chairman of that committee and says what they have found so far.
“We know that it’s safe, we know that it can be done, it’s gonna be done offshore probably anywhere from 35 to 100 miles offshore, which we feel pretty confident that there is gas out there in the Carolina trough that runs between North Carolina and South Carolina, and probably has gas. I don’t know that there’s much oil out there, but there’s a lot of natural gas, and, again we need to take advantage of it, the good Lord put it here, and we need to go out and find it and use it for the good of South Carolinians and the citizens of the United States,” says Campbell.
Campbell, along with other committee members, will recommend asking a federal agency for South Carolina to be included in a five-year plan that would allow access for the state to conduct offshore natural gas drilling. He says if this recommendation is approved, the state needs to be prepared. [Read more...]
