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| S.C. prison officials accused of stealing |
| By The Post and Courier |
| Published: 08/17/2004 |
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South Carolina Department of Corrections officials stole building materials and tried to extort money from a Mount Pleasant charity, then falsified a report to SLED about it, according to two former prison employees. In separate lawsuits, Roger W. Goodman of Summerville and Marguerite Tomasino of Goose Creek say they quit their Corrections jobs after supervisors ordered them to ignore evidence and keep quiet about officials stealing from a program to build homes for the elderly. Goodman, a former carpentry and plumbing teacher at Lieber Correctional Institution, and Tomasino, a Corrections internal affairs investigator, say there was a conspiracy among prison officials to fleece the United Methodist Relief Center and then to cover up their actions. Together, they tell a complex story of intimidation, coercion, a mysterious man posing as an FBI agent and prisoners embarrassed by the plot to steal from a church charity. "I have absolute evidence that employees of the Department of Corrections committed crimes and covered it up," Goodman said Monday. "I want to see the people who committed those crimes prosecuted like anyone else would be." Corrections officials deny the allegations, some privately characterizing Goodman and Tomasino as disgruntled former employees trying to generate publicity for their grievance lawsuits. "This whole issue is the subject of an ongoing lawsuit, and it wouldn't be appropriate to comment on that," said Charlie Sheppard, inspector general at Corrections. "However, we vigorously deny the allegations." |
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