Last defendant in $9 billion SCANA nuclear construction scandal pleads guilty
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.
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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.
Carl Churchman escaped prison because of his remorse and expertise in the nuclear power industry.
V.C. Summer nuclear plant in South Carolina was never completed. Carl Churchman, a former Westinghouse executive and onsite project manager was sentenced to home detention for lying to federal agents.