Three members of the City Council in South Carolina's third-largest city have been accused of accepting kickbacks and bribes in exchange for granting money and rezoning land, according to federal prosecutors. The charges were announced following a yearlong investigation by the FBI and state officials.
Jerome Heyward, Sandino Moses, and Mike A. Brown, along with five others, are implicated in the scandal. Heyward allegedly accepted a $40,000 kickback from two nonprofit organizations to direct a portion of a $1.3 million grant towards combating gun violence in North Charleston.
