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By: Staff, Post and Courier, Charleston, SC

A child was molested for 15 months after being placed by social workers in a Dorchester County home where a registered sex offender lived, state Rep. Jenny Horne said today.

“It’s outrageous,” said Horne, who lives in Summerville.

“I do know there is an investigation ongoing now,” Horne said.

She said she could not reveal the source of her information.

“It’s just grossly negligent. There is no other way to describe it,” she said.

At Horne’s urging, the Legislative Audit Council on Monday approved an audit of the state Department of Social Services. More than two dozen members of the State House Republican Caucus, including Horne, asked for...

By Martha Neil

A Minnesota attorney says he was scammed into depositing what he thought was a real cashier's check for nearly $300,000 from a legitimate collection matter into the trust account for his solo law practice.

Now Lawrence Marofsky is being sued by TCF Bank in federal court in Minneapolis, reports the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal.

He says he hopes to settle with the bank, but despite having malpractice coverage and some money "obviously, this hits hard," he tells the publication, warning other lawyers to watch out for similar fraud. "Make sure you find out that the check is in fact good, not from the bank you're dealing with, but from the original bank," he stated.

The article doesn't make clear exactly what happened concern...

Written by Tim Smith, Greenville Online

COLUMBIA - The director of the University of South Carolina's Center for Information Assurance says the massive records breach at the state Department of Revenue could have been prevented.

Csilla Farkas, director of the Center for Information Assurance, which helps train students in cyber security, said she knows no more about the breach at the state Department of Revenue than anyone else listening to publicly released information. But she said if a breach has occurred it is because of a lack of adequate safeguards.

"This attack, I would say, is a representative example when policies, procedures, existing technologies and awareness were not playing together to provide adequate security," Farkas told Gre...