Ex-North Charleston Councilman Jerome Heyward is among four people to plead guilty Feb. 28 to corruption charges from a FBI influence-peddling investigation.

Four of the eight people charged in North Charleston corruption schemes headed downtown to court Friday morning after a wide web of crime was revealed Wednesday

Federal prosecutors say three members of the City Council in South Carolina’s third-largest city accepted kickbacks and bribes to give out grant money and rezone land or lied about what they knew.

A current and former North Charleston City Council member are set to plead guilty along with 2 others Feb. 28 to charges from a FBI corruption investigation.

Two former North Charleston councilmembers and two others pleaded guilty to federal charges Friday following a year-long public corruption investigation. Eight people, including Councilmembers Jerome Heyward,

Three North Charleston City Councilmembers and five others were federally charged for a slew of bribery, kickback, extortion, and money laundering schemes, acti

A trio of councilmen in one of South Carolina’s biggest cities was accused of participating in a series of bribery schemes that also involved five other people. The three men -- Jerome Heyward, Sandino Moses and Mike A.

Eight people, including three North Charleston councilmen, have been charged in a year-long public corruption investigation. Councilmembers Jerome Heyward, Mike A. Brown, Sandino Moses, and five of their associates including Hason “Tory” Fields,

North Charleston City Councilmembers Jerome Heyward, Mike A. Brown & Sandino Moses following a 12-month long FBI corruption investigation.