Tony Bartelme

What a horse farm in Aiken, South Carolina tells us about international money laundering Nigerian military adviser and polo fan Sambo Dasuki bought a horse farm in Aiken, SC. He was later charged with stealing $2 billion and criminal diversion.

Story here. Was a weird one!

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Post and Courier wins President's Cup for Excellence, 91 awards from SC Press Association The Post and Courier wins 91 awards from S.C. Press Association, including Journalist of the Year, Judson Chapman Award and President's Cup for Excellence.

Thank you A-Mark Foundation and SC Press Assoc. for recognizing our “Power and Polo” corp transparency project last year as SC’s top investigative journalism prize. with @glennsmith.bsky.social a d @johndellosso.bsky.social

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Kiawah controversy: Marketing tool or subsidy? Sandwiched between the resort islands of Kiawah and Seabrook, a teardrop-shaped spit of sand and marsh marks the entrance to Capt. Sam's Inlet.

We broke this story in 2008 when a Congressman tried to push through a bill to make this sand spit eligible for federal flood insurance. The story revealed how developers hoped to build 50 houses there. A backlash killed the bill and led to this long battle.
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Capt. Sams Spit saga could come to an end. Full conservation outcome set under new agreement. Kiawah Island and a private developer have settled a yearslong dispute over a planned development on a tiny strip of land off the island’s southern tip.

This is a huge win for everyone.

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Opinion | Crypto Is Pointless. Not Even the White House Can Fix That.

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Report Describes Crypto’s $350 Billion Shadow War Report says Russia, North Korea and Iran have turned digital currencies into powerful tools for sanctions evasion, hacking and global money laundering.

Report says Russia, North Korea and Iran have turned digital currencies into powerful tools for sanctions evasion, hacking and global money laundering.

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As other states push back on rising power bills, West Virginia lawmakers double down on coal While West Virginians struggle to pay their power bills, lawmakers are rejecting or tabling proposals to help.

Saw a story in the Mountain State Spotlight today about WV doubling down on coal and paying a price for that. It harkened back to one I reported in 2018. Here's the new story: mountainstatespotlight.org/2026/03/03/r...

You can avoid the fee by only going to the airport Tuesday between 11 and 1 pm. I did today, and there were 30 people waiting to ask the counter people to punch in their information. Just not a way to create loyalty.

I've flown Breeze 25 times in and out of Charleston over the past few years, and I've had very good experiences. But Breeze's "Tech Development Charge" has gotten out of hand. The airline wanted $62 for a flight to Providence.
@breezeairways.bsky.social

As I have watched measles cases in my home state of SC skyrocket to almost 1,000, I wondered why I hardly ever heard anything about the severity of complications. Here’s what I found.

📣 Submissions are now OPEN for the 2026 CCNow Journalism Awards! 🔔

How We Tracked a ‘Fake Prince’ Scammer to his Nigerian Mansion YouTube video by Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project

Watch the full documentary here www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysua...

Go Chikezie!

Our new documentary, “How We Tracked a ‘Fake Prince’ Scammer to His Nigerian Mansion,” hit more than half a million views.

We spoke to the journalist behind the story, who started investigating after a Romanian businesswoman believed she’d invested £200 million in a fake humanitarian foundation.

Here's what I got so you don't have to use AI!
On Desktop: Go to chrome://settings/searchEngines in Chrome.
Click the Add button next to "Site Search"
For Name, enter "Google (Web)"
For Shortcut, enter @web
For URL, enter {google:baseURL}search?udm=14&q=%s
Click Add and make it your default

QuitGPT — OpenAI Execs are Trump's Biggest Donors Join the movement. Delete ChatGPT. Cancel your subscription. It's time to quit.

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Lots of reasons to QuitGPT. Brain turning to jelly is number 2.

QuitGPT!

How a SC riverkeeper’s detective work reveals a deeper tale about the carpet industry's PFAS legacy Congaree Riverkeeper Bill Stangler traced PFAS "forever chemicals" to Shaw Industries' South Carolina carpet plant on the Lower Saluda River in Irmo.

Some Georgia lawmakers are trying to pass a bill to shield carpet companies being sued for PFAS contamination. Here's why that matters in South Carolina.

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Drugged, abused and told to find 'fresh meat.' A Hilton Head girl's encounter with Jeffrey Epstein. The FBI interviewed a woman who called a bureau hotline, claiming that Jeffrey Epstein assaulted her as a teenager on Hilton Head Island in South Carolina.

Creepy South Carolina Epstein story in today’s @postandcourier.bsky.social (Wait I guess they’re all creepy.)

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Click here to support Ava Duryee and the Bridges Preparatory Girls Soccer Fundraiser 2026 Fundraising is vital for the success of our program. The funds will aid us in purchasing equipment, food and other pertinent expenses. Each participant has a monetary goal, please consider donating or...

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It’s tough to boycott Amazon and Bezos completely, but small steps are the key —buy direct from the seller when possible.

Ocean Empire - Science Politics Introducing a new column breaking down seismic shifts in ocean policy and explaining why they matter.

🌊I have a new gig. 🌊

Introducing: OCEAN EMPIRE, my new column about U.S ocean policy and foreign affairs for @sciencepolitics.bsky.social.

We are a brand new online magazine housed at Georgetown University. I'm thrilled to bring in-depth news analysis about what's happening to 70% of our planet.

Wapo’s climate team did some of the best work around. History will not be kind to Bezos and other oligarchs.

Breaking: Washington Post gutting its climate team Clean energy dies in darkness. Courtesy of Jeff Bezos.

Democracy dies of heatstroke.
What a tool Bezos is--imagining having that kind of money and still being afraid of Dear Leader.
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Washington Post Begins Sweeping Layoffs

Blame Bezos, but also the AI data thieves.

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Ugh, I'm sorry to hear that Clare. Big loss for Canary.

A crisis emerges across the US as ‘forever chemicals’ quietly contaminate drinking water wells The roughly 40 million Americans who get drinking water from wells are at particular risk when harmful forever chemicals contaminate the supply.

And @apnews.com apnews.com/article/pfas...

Inside America’s carpet capital: an empire and its toxic legacy The Georgia carpet industry’s long use of PFAS, known as forever chemicals, polluted drinking water and the environment across swaths of the South.

And the @ajc.com www.ajc.com/sp/forever-c...

How a SC riverkeeper’s detective work reveals a deeper tale about the carpet industry's PFAS legacy Congaree Riverkeeper Bill Stangler traced PFAS "forever chemicals" to Shaw Industries' South Carolina carpet plant on the Lower Saluda River in Irmo.

Our latest with @ajc.com and @al.com and @apnews.com was an interesting journo collaboration. Our story: www.postandcourier.com/news/special...

'Forever chemical' testing to be ramped up amid growing concerns. Increasing testing for PFAS is part of the UK's first ever national plan for tackling the substances.

Important development here: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...