{"id":199863,"date":"2007-06-21T15:29:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-21T20:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/06\/21\/rudys-sc-campaign-manager-busted-for-dealing-coke\/"},"modified":"2007-06-21T15:29:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-21T20:29:00","slug":"rudys-sc-campaign-manager-busted-for-dealing-coke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/06\/21\/rudys-sc-campaign-manager-busted-for-dealing-coke\/","title":{"rendered":"Rudy&#8217;s SC Campaign Manager Busted for Dealing Coke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gee&#8230;.This is not a good week for Rudy.  I feel for him&#8230;..OK&#8230;.I feel amusement <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">about<\/span> him.<br \/><a style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2007\/POLITICS\/06\/19\/treasurer.indicted.ap\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-size:130%;\" ><a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2007\/POLITICS\/06\/19\/treasurer.indicted.ap\/\">South Carolina treasurer indicted on cocaine charges<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">COLUMBIA, South Carolina (AP) &#8212; South Carolina Treasurer Thomas Ravenel, a former real estate developer who became a rising political star after his election last year, was indicted Tuesday on federal cocaine charges.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-variant: small-caps; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">Ravenel is also the state chairman for former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani&#8217;s presidential campaign.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">Ravenel has stepped down from his volunteer responsibilities with the campaign, according to a statement released by Mark Campbell, Giuliani&#8217;s political director.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">Campbell said the campaign has no information about the accusations pending against Ravenel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">The millionaire is accused of buying less than 500 grams of the drug to share with other people in late 2005, U.S. Attorney Reggie Lloyd said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">Ravenel, 44, is charged with distribution of cocaine, which carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<br \/><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gee&#8230;.This is not a good week for Rudy. I feel for him&#8230;..OK&#8230;.I feel amusement about him. South Carolina treasurer indicted on cocaine charges COLUMBIA, South Carolina (AP) &#8212; South Carolina Treasurer Thomas Ravenel, a former real estate developer who became a rising political star after his election last year, was indicted Tuesday on federal cocaine &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[978,977,1015],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-presidential-campaign","category-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199863"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}