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The scandal cost SC ratepayers billions for two nuclear reactors that were never finished and let to the dissolution of SCANA, once one of the state’s elite corporations.

The curtain is about to rise on the last act of a blockbuster South Carolina financial scandal involving once-proud electric utility SCANA with a guilty plea next week by the last defendant.

A South Carolina federal judge had tossed out an earlier indictment against Jeffrey Benjamin, the former Westinghouse charged in the SCANA nuclear scandal.

Federal prosecutors now must decide whether to re-indict Jeffrey Benjamin, the former Westinghouse executive who oversaw billions of dollars in construction at SCANA’s nuclear site in Fairfield County.