CHARLESTON COUNTY, S.C. (WCSC) - U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace updated a complaint seeking sanctions against a company she claims her ex-fiancé formed to target her as a key witness in a sexual assault investigation.
Mace claimed in a court motion filed on Wednesday that a company called GLT2 LLC, formed by her ex-fiancé, Patrick Bryant, filed court documents to authorize depositions from “John and Jane Doe” in what she calls a “deliberate abuse of the judicial process” that included a “coordinated media smear campaign using false statements” to discredit Mace as a key witness in a criminal investigation.
The petition to which Mace refers, filed on Feb. 21, sought authorization for depositions to determine the names of people who might have committed civil wrongs against the company. It did not mention Mace by name.
But Mace’s petition includes a transcript of an April 28 deposition of political consultant Wesley Donehue about his professional involvement with Mace. The text of the deposition states the consultant discussed Mace allegedly asking him to “blackmail” Bryant over a house after Mace “found things” on Bryant’s phone.
The Congresswoman, who represents South Carolina’s First Congressional District, says she amended the complaint to name political consultant Wesley Donehue, whom she called a “longtime Bryant associate and former Mace consultant.”
In the updated complaint, she said Donehue “falsely accused Mace of attempting...
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