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Former Surfside Beach Town Councilman Sammy Truett is appealing a civil penalty handed down this year by the S.C. Ethics Commission in a case that is related to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s ongoing criminal investigation into political donations with ties to the Myrtle Beach Area Chamber of Commerce.
The ethics commission in August ordered Truett to pay $48,000 for failing to deposit three donation checks into his campaign bank account and then failing to file quarterly disclosure reports showing those checks, other contributions and campaign expenditures. The commission agreed to reduce the fine to $12,556 if it is paid by February.
There is no indication that Truett is a target of the separate criminal investigation, which focuses on campaign donations delivered to politicians by chamber officials.
Truett, who has corrected the disclosure reports, called the commission’s fine “excessive” and said he hopes to have it further reduced during an appeal hearing scheduled for Jan. 18 in Columbia.
“All I had to do was go online and update my account,” Truett said. “I don’t see how I could be fined that amount of money. Drug dealers don’t get the kind of fine I got.”
The ethics commission stated in its Aug. 31 order that the former Surfside Beach councilman failed to disclose $3,750 in campaign contributions he received in 2008 and 2009.
Truett said his failure to report the checks and other expenses was an administrative error.
Included in the contributions were checks totaling $2,250 that Truett received from Brant Branham, the former chairman of the chamber’s board of directors. Truett told The Sun News last year that Branham handed him an envelope containing the checks during a fall festival in 2009.
Truett said Branham was standing with Surfside Beach Mayor Allen Deaton and Brad Dean, the chamber’s president and chief executive officer, when he delivered the checks.
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