At a packed Greenville County Republican Party meeting on Monday, veteran solicitor David Pascoe used a campaign presentation to take aim at the South Carolina Attorney General’s Office, spotlighting allegations from an unpublished whistleblower complaint as he campaigns to lead the agency.
“I know that every Patriot in this room agrees with my overarching theme of tonight,” Pascoe said at the outset. “Which is that government must serve the people and not political insider. When you tolerate corruption, you let the devil in.”
Pascoe’s remarks came during a lengthy presentation built around a 54-slide deck that drew not only on his 33-year prosecutorial career, but also on his role as special prosecutor in a Statehouse corruption investigation commonly known as “Probegate.”
That investigation led to the conviction and removal from office of several of the state’s most powerful lawmakers, including former House Speaker Bobby Harrell and former Senate President Pro Tempore John Courson, along with multiple guilty pleas by other state legislators.
As he laid out the case, Pascoe identified the nucleus of the corruption scheme as Richard Quinn & Associates, the influential Columbia-based firm run by the late Richard Quinn.
“I wanted to go further. I wanted to go a lot further,” Pascoe said of the Probegate investigation. “But the state Supreme Court told me I had to stop because they said I was not the attorney general. Well, I’m running for attorney general to finish the...
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