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Alvin Greene Indicted On Obscenity Charges

Rachel Slajda | August 13, 2010, 2:22PM

Alvin Greene

South Carolina Senate candidate Alvin Greene (D) has been indicted by a grand jury on two charges relating to an incident last November in which he allegedly showed porn to a college student.

Greene was indicted on one felony count of disseminating obscenity and one misdemeanor count of "communicating an obscene message to another person without consent."

You can read the indictment here.

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State Panel Clears Alvin Greene: 'He Did Nothing Wrong'

Jillian Rayfield | July 12, 2010, 12:15PM

Alvin Greene

The South Carolina Law Enforcement Division has found that Democratic Senate nominee Alvin Greene had the means to pay the $10,440 filing fee to run for office, and will also not face additional criminal charges for requesting a public defender in his obscenity trial.

SLED was investigating Greene, who won the Democratic nomination June 8 without campaigning, amid questions over how he could qualify for a taxpayer-funded attorney but still manage to pay his rather large filing fee.

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State Agency Investigating Alvin Greene's Finances

Rachel Slajda | June 28, 2010, 12:03PM

SC-SEN candidate Alvin Greene (D)

The State reports today that the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division -- a state agency with subpoena power -- is investigating Senate candidate Alvin Greene's finances.

Investigators will focus on how Greene, an unemployed veteran, came up with the $10,440 filing fee to run for the office. Greene won the Democratic nomination earlier this month without campaigning.

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Alvin Greene: I Am The Next Time Magazine Man Of The Year

Justin Elliott | June 17, 2010, 9:23AM

SC-SEN candidate Alvin Greene (D)

Ten days of constant and often mocking media coverage has done nothing to damage the self-esteem of South Carolina Democratic Senate candidate Alvin Greene -- just the opposite.

Time catches up with Greene at his Manning, South Carolina, home as he begins to show signs of megalomania:

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CNN Anchor To Alvin Greene: Are You 'Mentally Sound?' (VIDEO)

Rachel Slajda | June 14, 2010, 5:04PM

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The Alvin Greene interviews just keep getting weirder, as the interviewers become increasingly desperate to get something -- anything -- out of the Democratic nominee for Senate in South Carolina.

Over the weekend, CNN's Don Lemon asked Greene if he was "mentally sound" and "impaired by anything" during the interview.

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The Alvin Greene Story: No One Heard Of Vic Rawl, Either

Rachel Slajda | June 14, 2010, 12:34PM

Vic Rawl (D-SC)

Alvin Greene, as you probably know, didn't do any campaigning before getting nearly 60% of the vote in the South Carolina Democratic primary for Senate. He didn't have yard signs or a web site, and he didn't attend the state party's big political events, including the convention and the Galivants Ferry Stump.

His opponent, Vic Rawl, did campaign, and now he's alleging possible wrongdoing in the primary and protesting the results.

But something that's been all but ignored over the past week is the fact that, for all his campaigning, Rawl had no more name recognition than Greene.

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