Fox News has the story: South Carolina’s lieutenant governor
resigned Friday as he was indicted on a string of ethics charges over an
alleged scheme to fake campaign contributions while at the same time
using thousands of dollars in donations for personal shopping sprees and
trips.
Ken Ard resigned as the state’s No. 2
official just hours before the indictment was handed down. In a
statement, South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson called the
investigation “unprecedented.”
He accused Ard of claiming bogus campaign
contributions “to create the false appearance of a groundswell of
political support.” Some of those contributions were flat-out fake;
others represented Ard’s own money which he “funneled” to other people
and then back to his own campaign, according to Wilson and the
indictment.