Posted on 03/12/2002 2:04:23 PM PST by PJeffQ
Another website, Upstate Common Voice, reported today that Sen. John Hawkins would be dropping out of the Attorney General's race either today or Tuesday. As of Monday evening, no such announcement has taken place. In fact, sources close to the situation tell us that no such announcement is forthcoming on Tuesday either.
As we told you yesterday (3/10), Larry Richter had a "colorful" time as a circuit court judge.
Several issues came up when Richter appeared before the Judicial Screening Committee prior to what would have been his re-election campaign in the General Assembly. The issue that attracted the most attention related to allegations Richter, a sitting judge, offered cocaine to a female USC law student at a party.
Tara D. Anderson, who at the time was a Law Student at USC, told the Screening Committee that Richter offered her cocaine at a party held at the home of Assistant Solicitor (9th Circuit) Carole Cox. Anderson, who was 25 at the time, told the Screening Committee in 1988 that she attended the party the previous June.
News reports during the screening hearing indicate that Anderson told the committee that Richter attempted to lure her into a back bedroom in the Cox home. She also testified that another attorney was in the bathroom adjoining that bedroom. According to Anderson, Richter pointed at his nose and made sniffing noises when she asked why he wanted her to join them in the bedroom.
News reports in 1988 indicate that Anderson testified that Richter initially asked her for a ride home that night following the party. However, Richter ended up getting a ride home from Charlie Condon, who then served as the Ninth Circuit Solicitor.
Anderson also told the committee that attempts to intimidate her into not testifying against Richter were made by prominent Columbia and Charleston attorneys in the months following the incident.
Richter denied offering cocaine to Anderson. He later withdrew his name from consideration for re-election as judge. When he dropped out, the chairman of the screening committee, in a speech on the Senate floor, said that 6 of the 8 members of the commitee would have found Richter unqualified to serve another term on the bench.
A story in The State in 1988 pointed out that, after she testified against Richter, Anderson's car was broken into outside her home on Wheat Street in Columbia. Police reports indicated that she found a dead cat on the driver's side seat of her car. Police reports also indicated that the cat may have been Anderson's, which she kept at the Charleston home of her parents.
Stay tuned tommorrow for more on allegations of improprieties - including attempts to coerce members of the Ninth Circuit Solicitor's office to not testify against Richter in the Screening Committee hearings plus more on the allegations of shady land deals (with alleged drug dealers.)
Sounds like the same Clintonista perps who did in Kathleen Willey's cat!
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