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“When police spoke to the girlfriend, she stated that Murphy had recently been bedridden on the couch and unable to walk. She left Thursday morning for an appointment and returned to find him ‘clearly deceased.’

With Flock and other license-plate cameras operating throughout the Charleston tri-county area, has anyone checked the available footage to confirm who entered or left the area and whether Murphy’s vehicle was moving while he was supposedly unable to walk?

“Cameras are everywhere when authorities want to track the public. Surely they can be useful for establishing a basic timeline here, too.”

#Transparency #VerifyTheTimeline #PublicRecords #SouthCarolina #PublicLedger

https://t.co/zK7cicYvd4

[Alan Wilson @AGAlanWilson]

For more than a year, I have led a coalition of attorneys general demanding answers about Dr. Anthony Fauci’s COVID-19 response.

In February 2025, we called on Congress to cooperate with states investigating Dr. Anthony Fauci’s role in the alleged mismanagement of the pandemic, misleading statements, suppression of scientific debate, and the origins of COVID-19. (Link Below)

Today, instead of providing answers to Congress, Dr. Fauci repeatedly invoked the Fifth Amendment. Every American has constitutional rights, but the American people also have a right to transparency and accountability from the public officials whose decisions affected millions of lives.

We will continue pursuing the truth because the American people deserve nothing less.

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@fitsnews @CourageousPAC @scvotes 🤦‍♀️ this will be interesting!

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@fitsnews @CourageousPAC @scvotes 🤦‍♀️

[Stew Peters @realstewpeters]

Pray for Candace.

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[State Rep. Jay Kilmartin @JayforHouse85]

This is good news. Inexpensive medicine that fights cancer is not in the business plans of pharmaceutical companies. People flat out say “they can’t make any money off of it.“.

And there are less politicians in state government beholden to big Pharma than in Washington DC. They dare not touch this issue. It’s all about the Benjamin’s.

[FITSNews @fitsnews]

🔴#SCSuccession

South Carolina's Republican Party (@SCGOP) has announced dates for a public forum (hosted by @AGAlanWilson) and a debate in the increasingly crowded race to fill the seat vacated by the late @LindseyGrahamSC.

The forum will be held next Saturday (August 1, 2026) while the debate will be held the following Monday (August 3, 2026).

Details below...

[State Rep. Jay Kilmartin @JayforHouse85]

I often have people tell me “I don’t pay attention to politics, it stresses me out.“

As Rob Schneider points out, everything is political. Food, roads, anything that is manufactured is regulated.

Get involved somewhere!

[The Public Ledger @PublicLedgerUS]

Exactly. That’s what stood out to me too. Being only 58, bedridden, and unable to walk suggests something serious was happening medically. It’s incredibly sad, and it makes me wonder whether he was receiving the level of medical attention and support that condition required. I’m not making an accusation I’m asking because the details reported publicly raise legitimate questions. And sadden of any death of a human life. 🙏

[The Public Ledger @PublicLedgerUS]

“When police spoke to the girlfriend, she stated that Murphy had recently been bedridden on the couch and unable to walk. She left Thursday morning for an appointment and returned to find him ‘clearly deceased.’

With Flock and other license-plate cameras operating throughout the Charleston tri-county area, has anyone checked the available footage to confirm who entered or left the area and whether Murphy’s vehicle was moving while he was supposedly unable to walk?

“Cameras are everywhere when authorities want to track the public. Surely they can be useful for establishing a basic timeline here, too.”

#Transparency #VerifyTheTimeline #PublicRecords #SouthCarolina #PublicLedger

https://t.co/zK7cicYvd4

[The Public Ledger @PublicLedgerUS]

Lauren, there’s an important distinction between asking questions and making accusations. My post did not allege foul play. It raised a question about whether available investigative tools such as license plate reader data were used to establish or corroborate the publicly reported timeline.

My reporting has consistently focused on public records, government spending, and the actions of public officials. Disagreeing with a public official’s decisions or scrutinizing the use of taxpayer funds is not “hatred” it’s part of public accountability.

The death of any person is tragic, and nothing I posted suggests otherwise. Respecting a family’s grief and asking factual questions about publicly reported information are not mutually exclusive.

If you believe any factual statement I made is inaccurate, identify it. Facts can be verified. Personal attacks cannot.

[The Public Ledger @PublicLedgerUS]

This distinction matters.

A carve-out limited only to records formally titled in Iron Wolf Recovery Fitness’s name may not clearly reach funds deposited into, transferred through, or paid from a different account. Under the current proposed order, records outside the narrow carve-out could potentially be designated confidential while the designation is challenged.

The defense is not seeking unrelated personal transactions, Social Security numbers, complete account numbers, medical records, or other information protected by law.

The defense is requesting the ability to trace taxpayer and nonprofit-related money completely where it entered, where it moved, who received it, and how it was spent without losing the trail merely because a transaction appeared in an account bearing a different name.

That requested protection has not yet been added.

Berkeley County Court of Common Pleas
Case No. 2025-CP-08-03809

The Public Ledger will continue distinguishing between private personal information and financial information necessary to account for public or nonprofit funds. Transparency requires more than access to one account bearing one organization’s name.

The issue was never confidential medical information or Social Security numbers. Those are already protected by law.

The concern has always been whether financial records relating to a taxpayer-funded nonprofit should be hidden from public view.

According to state records, Iron Wolf Recovery is currently suspended for failing to comply with financial reporting requirements.

The organization’s IRS Form 990 filings also reflect significant financial activity that raises additional questions deserving public review.

No deposition of Maggie Talucci has occurred.

Chris Murphy who served as Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, represented Maggie Talucci in her 2017 divorce, and sponsored the $250,000 state appropriation to Iron Wolf Recovery also had not been deposed before his death.

Those are simply facts reflected in the history of this matter.

With Chairman Murphy now deceased, certain testimony may never be available. That makes the existing documentary evidence, public records, FOIA responses, financial filings, and discovery materials even more important.

This case has moved far beyond what began as a slander lawsuit.

The Public Ledger will continue publishing public records and educating the public about the discovery process, FOIA documents, nonprofit transparency, and the use of taxpayer funds.

Transparency should not stop where public money begins.

The public can review the filings themselves:

Berkeley County Court of Common Pleas
Case No. 2025-CP-08-03809

Read the documents.
Review the public records.
Follow the money.
Draw your own conclusions based on the evidence.

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Truth Bomb on SC Taxpayer Funds
For 3 years we have been raising questions about a $250k earmark to Iron Wolf Recovery Fitness using public records only.
In 2023 we contacted officials about the funding, the contract, and the need for financial transparency. Take a look for yourself! At the program design…. Where is the program now? Suspended on the charity website….

https://t.co/reXD7VizBB

#earmarks #budget #SCtransparency

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Berkeley County Case No. 2025-CP-08-03809

What began as a slander lawsuit has evolved into something much larger.

The original complaint portrayed a narrative of a “jealous ex-wife” versus a “new wife.” That narrative is now only a small part of a case that has expanded into discovery disputes, a countersuit, public-record requests, and questions surrounding a nonprofit that received a $250,000 state appropriation.

The Public Ledger believes the timeline deserves to be examined.

The documented timeline:

• Maggie Talucci filed a slander lawsuit.

• A separate request seeking to prohibit continued public posting was denied.

• During discovery, a proposed 12-page Consent Confidentiality Order was circulated.

• Rather than rejecting confidentiality altogether, the defense proposed specific carve-outs to ensure that public records remained public.

Those proposed carve outs included language stating that the following would not be treated as confidential and have been added,

Iron Wolf Recovery’s bank statements and financial records.
Documents already obtained through FOIA.
Public records.
Documents already possessed before discovery.

What hasn’t been added is this…..

ADDITIONAL LANGUAGE STILL MISSING FROM THE PROPOSED CONFIDENTIALITY ORDER

The latest proposed confidentiality order contains a limited exception for:

“the bank statements and financial records for Iron Wolf Recovery Fitness.”

That is not the complete protection the defense requested.

The proposed language does not expressly cover Iron Wolf-related funds that may have passed through an account held in another name, including a personal account, LLC, related business, affiliated organization, payment application, fundraising platform, merchant processor, digital wallet, another nonprofit, or third-party account.

It also does not expressly prevent the redaction of information necessary to identify and trace an Iron Wolf-related transaction.

The following requested language has not been included in the most recent version:

Notwithstanding the foregoing, all bank statements, financial records, accounting records, transaction records, donation and contribution records, fundraising records, payroll records, payment-platform records, merchant-processor records, tax workpapers, and supporting records reflecting any money received, held, deposited, transferred, withdrawn, paid, spent, reimbursed, donated, contributed, or otherwise handled by or for Iron Wolf Recovery Fitness, EIN 84-3896439, shall not be deemed confidential under this Order.

This exclusion applies regardless of whether the records are produced by a party or nonparty and regardless of whose name appears on the account. It includes any Iron Wolf-related transaction appearing in a personal account, LLC, related business, affiliated entity, another nonprofit, digital wallet, fundraising platform, payment application, merchant account, or third-party account.

Information reasonably necessary to identify and trace an Iron Wolf-related transaction shall not be redacted. Genuinely unrelated personal transactions and information specifically protected from disclosure by law may be redacted.

[The Public Ledger @PublicLedgerUS]

Yes. They want a confidentiality agreement. The judge wants it… we’ve went back back-and-forth and they have not yet put in the carveout to the exact verbiage it has been asked, one of the biggest things is getting the bank statements for the nonprofit, but having everything confidential that went in and out of it is not acceptable. What is in there that needs to be redacted that requires a 12 page agreement of confidentiality….

[The Public Ledger @PublicLedgerUS]

@liddabiddy RIP to him and prayers for his family.. With an on going lawsuit…. Sadly he won’t be able to tell his side… I will not be signing any CONFIDENTIALITY agreement they’ve been trying to get me to sign for days !!!

[The Public Ledger @PublicLedgerUS]

Even though the battle has been thick with these earmarks over the past few years and this current lawsuit ! RIP 🙏 Rep. Murphy I’ll be sad you won’t be able to answer the questions we had…. Prayers to your family. ❤️

[FITSNews @fitsnews]

Following up on our post last night, our @TheWillFolks reports on the death of former South Carolina House judiciary chairman Chris Murphy... https://t.co/cch9E0fo1x

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[FITSNews @fitsnews]

Multiple sources telling us that former S.C. House judiciary chairman Chris Murphy has passed away. 🙏🏼⬆️

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We can’t wait to follow the 💰 🍿

[FITSNews @fitsnews]

💸💸💸 #SCBudget deal is DONE. Details forthcoming…