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1 Billion 800 Million Misplaced Dollars. How Do you Measure a Discrepancy? (It’s a RENT Joke)

Treasurer Curtis Lofits provides more than five hours of testimony before a Senate Finance subcommittee on April 2, 2024 over a $1.8 billion discrepancy.
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Treasurer Curtis Lofits provides more than five hours of testimony before a Senate Finance subcommittee on April 2, 2024 over a $1.8 billion discrepancy.

On this episode of the South Carolina Lede for April 27, 2024: we look at changes made by the Senate in their version of the state’s operating budget the chamber approved this week; we hear a songful testimony before a House judiciary subcommittee; we also talk with talk to Sen. Larry Grooms, who is leading an investigation into the $1.8 billion discrepancy on the state treasurer’s books; and more!

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Gavin Jackson graduated with a visual journalism degree from Kent State University in 2008 and has been in the news industry ever since. He has worked at newspapers in Ohio, Louisiana and most recently in South Carolina at the Florence Morning News and Charleston Post and Courier.