(Columbia, SC)-- A hearing over payments made to private law firms by South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson has been delayed.
In 2020, Wilson paid 75-million dollars to the Columbia law firms Willoughby & Hoefer -- where Wilson worked before becoming attorney general -- and Davidson, Wren & DeMasters.
The fees were part of a deal involving the U.S. government agreeing to pay the state 600-million dollars for not removing weapons-grade plutonium from the Savannah River nuclear weapons complex.
Wilson was sued over the payments to the law firms by Columbia attorney John Crangle and the S.C. Public Interest Foundation, arguing the payment was unreasonable. A new date for the hearing has not been scheduled.