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| Corrections case too 'murky' to prosecute |
| By The Post and Courier |
| Published: 08/23/2004 |
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A Lowcountry solicitor decided against prosecuting Department of Corrections officials accused of stealing building materials from a Mount Pleasant charity because the case was "murky" and muddled with internal politics. In 2003, former 1st Circuit Solicitor Walter Bailey reviewed a State Law Enforcement Division report detailing allegations that Lieber Correctional Institution officials conspired to steal and extort money from the United Methodist Relief Center, which was using inmate labor to build homes for the elderly. Bailey said the allegations, at the center of two lawsuits against the Corrections Department by former employees, were not conclusive enough to take the case to trial. "There was some smoke there, but I didn't see the substance to it," Bailey said last Tuesday. "If we could have found that someone had misappropriated money, we would have prosecuted. But it was too murky, and the case was filled with personality conflicts." |
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