(Columbia, SC) -- A top South Carolina state official is resigning over a years-long accounting scandal.
Comptroller General Richard Eckstrom hand-delivered his resignation letter to Governor Henry McMaster on Thursday, as state senators were getting ready to force him from office.
The lawmakers want Eckstrom gone because of a three-point-five billion dollar financial reporting blunder his office failed for years to fix.
Eckstrom will resign April 30th from the office he's held for 20 years.