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A Goose Creek man, Hason Tatorian ‘Tory’ Fields, was busted paying bribes to a North Charleston city councilman to secure support for a rezoning deal.
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The scheme involved Fields paying bribes to Sandino Moses, a member of the City of North Charleston’s City Council, to back the rezoning of the Baker Hospital site.
Fields was sentenced to 12 months and one day in federal prison, along with three years of supervision, after pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit bribery and honest services wire fraud.
The FBI and South Carolina Law Enforcement Division investigated the case, which is part of a larger public corruption probe in North Charleston.
Fields is the first defendant to be sentenced in the case, with six others still awaiting their turn in court.
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- Crime: Public Corruption
- Defendant: South Carolina
- Location: SC
- Source: DOJ Press Release
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