“MENU OF FLESH” PROVIDED TO COLUMBIA MAYOR STEVE BENJAMIN …
Columbia, S.C. “mayorhood” Steve Benjamin hand-picked a white exotic dancer from a “menu of flesh” provided to him during his secret December 2010 trip to an Orlando, Florida strip club.
And yes … he reportedly partook of everything on her menu in a late night hotel sex romp.
Not only that, sources familiar with Benjamin’s wild evening/ morning of debauchery in Florida tell FITS the strippers who allegedly serviced him (and disgraced S.C. State University board chairman Jonathan Pinson) were “part of the entertainment package” provided by developer Richard Zahn.
Zahn – who along with Pinson was indicted for his role in a bribery scheme at S.C. State University – has testified in open court that he paid $8,000 to provide a night of entertainment for Benjamin, Pinson and two other men.
Did that figure include the “white girls,” though?
Hmmmm …
Benjamin and Pinson are the central figures in a busted development scam that received nearly $8 million in federal “stimulus” funds. That boondoggle – which went belly-up last year – is reportedly linked to another, more powerful politician.
“And they’re all going down,” one source familiar with the investigation told FITS.
Wow …
Benjamin is married to S.C. circuit court judge DeAndre Benjamin. The couple have two young children.
Obviously, we don’t judge him for stepping out (and we’ve long supported the decriminalization of prostitution), but what we’re dealing with here is a corrupt politician accepting undisclosed gifts from a developer who has since been indicted for attempting to bribe public officials.
According to federal investigators, Zahn offered Pinson a $110,000 Porsche Cayenne in exchange for his support of taxpayers shelling out $3 million on Zahn’s “Sportsman’s Retreat.” Two other S.C. State officials were also indicted for their roles in the scandal – including one who testified that he was instructed to lie about Benjamin’s whereabouts during the Orlando getaway.
Guess we now know why …
There is no way this ends well for Benjamin. In fact it’s becoming pretty clear there was some truth to those reports published last December about him being the original target of this federal probe.
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Benjamin was just insulating Mark Sanford, Richard Eckstrom, Bob Peeler and their activities. Maybe he desires to be a Republican!
Sorry , emulating.
Are you the big breasted Mandy?
Looks like they won’t get a shot at Benjahood. Both sides have rested and not a witness for the defense can we say slam dunk!!
What does this mean? Can anyone explain?
It means T-Bone is still sleeping on the couch at home. I’m predicting that within 3 months we’ll see T-Bone divorced and resign as Mayor. He knows he’s done in this city after what’s come out in the past week.
Wrong…unless he is convicted or somehow thrown out of office he will NEVER resign…shame doesn’t work on the shameless!
He’ll probably quit for PTSD like Chief Shorty did, then Sheriff Shorty (Lott) will hire him for a PR position.
I have a few times read speculation that his aim is for Clyburn’s US rep position when Clyburn retires. Does this affect that?
Do ya’ll see this on The State–mind you there has been no defense presentation, wtf is this:
COLUMBIA, SC — The judge in the ongoing federal public corruption trial is considering throwing out part of the case against Greenville businessman Jonathan Pinson.
Pinson’s status is central to the prosecution’s case, which alleges public corruption by Pinson. Prosecutors argued that as chairman of the S.C. State University board of trustees, Pinson is a public official because he was appointed to the board by the S.C. Legislature.
Pinson and Eric Robinson, also a Greeneville businessman, did not take the stand in
their own defense, and no witnesses were called for the defense.
The jury has been sent home for the day. Closing arguments are scheduled for tomorrow.
Attorney Jim Griffin asked federal Judge David Norton on Thursday morning for a
directed verdict of not guilty, arguing the government did not make its
case.
Read
more here:
http://www.thestate.com/2014/06/26/3532370/new-pinsons-attorney-asks-judge.html?sp=/99/205/&ihp=1#storylink=cpy
means nothing. the judge has to consider motions. and the defense is supposed to ask that the whole case be tossed. more important is that there was no defense presented at all. i would bet heavily on a conviction at this point. and pinson will be under pressure to flip on the mayor.
Does the argument that he is not a public official hold any water?
In this State a goddamn five gallon galvanized bucket with its bottom rusted out holds water
He was ruled a public figure by the judge–crazy argument that he was somehow acting privately. Guess he’s toast now and in a few days it will be official, unless there is a hung jury.
I hope Ron Jeremy or male members of his family are not on that jury.
Emily, I bet you have mental images of Ron Jeremy in your head, the later years.
*Disclaimer*
Despite common ancestry and similar physical attributes…TBG is not related to Ron Jeremy.
You’re a short hairy balding man with a beer gut?
You’re a short hairy balding man with a beer gut?
Correct.
…and a porn stash.
EDIT:
“porn ‘stache.”
OK.
Both.
I’m half black, the lower half that is.
That must be awkward. I mean it’s hard enough to get an overall even tan. On a positive note, you must glad that you can jump better with those extra leg muscles.
I have mental images of me giving Ron Jeremy head.
Jim, his attorney argued that the judge should dismiss the charges because he was not a public official (?!?). The judge smacked that down about four hours later.
If he knocks up one of the strippers, supplies “shares” cocaine with her and pulls off a few development deals, oh and lets not forget to make sure he garners a conviction – then by FITS logic he would be a great candidate to replace Lindsay Graham. Sorry, T-Rat, your replacement has been found. Get home to the baby mama.
Who cares if he picked a white stripper? Would you cut him a break for getting a black stripper?
I swear, here’s a great story on corruption that begins with a really dumbfuck factoid, put front and center, that literally has nothing to do with the corrupt shit going on. What a joke.
Meh, it grabs your attention. In that regard, it’s well written. If you just publish another Columbia corruption story, nobody’s going to read it.
yup. Fits is just proving that he ain’t racist. we’re all racist cause we clicked on it. course i assumed there would be a picture.
Naturally.
No, it does not hold water. He meets the test is several way, not the least he was appointed to a position of public trust at a state institution. He presented himself to the pubic in this light, spoke out public and accept funds for per diems, etc. He is a public official.
I know I did.
As Sic Willie will tell you ad nauseam, he has no problem with the racial difference BUT he will state it over and over and over.
Great story here Smirks. You really need to check it out: It asks: “Is there any real chance of a federal indictment?”
Do yourself a favor: Read: http://scdigest.blogspot.com/2014/06/the-benjamin-pr-strategy-jimmy-metts.html
Emily, nobody gives a fuck about your blog. You’re starting to sound desperate because nobody is visiting your site.
Wait, Emily is GT and GT is SC Digest?
Emily is NOT GT. Not the real Emily anyway.
If you look at comments on The State, they’re identical to Grand Tangos, including the repeated attempts to drive people to her blog… which I just checked and it seems not to be working very well because she’s lucky to get one or two comments other than herself.
Well, I see what you mean. The same FB ID posts to The Sun News, though so far not with links to SC DIgest. But it’s pretty obvious that it’s not the same as the real Emily Peterkin. Who, btw, leans progressive.
http://www.thestate.com/2014/06/26/3532370/new-pinsons-attorney-asks-judge.html?sp=/99/205/&ihp=1
In other words, your basic nutjob.
The difference it may make might be found in something a black friend told me some years ago. He liked white women but did not want it out that he had been with white women. He told me that if a black woman knew a black man had been with white women, oftentimes she would not want anything to do with him. It’s the same as a lot of white men don’t want to be with some nasty white hoe who has been with black men.
In other words, this might be a double bitch slap in Deandrea’s face.
d-d-d-double bitch slap!
I’m just following the lead of your beloved leftist MSM and its racial identification policy …
BAM!!!
Suck up.
http://2big2fall.wordpress.com/2014/06/27/will-folks-pole-dancer/
Black whores he can get back at home, when you’re out you want something special.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=493pL_Vbtnc
We (as a state) elect some entertaining deviants.
You’d better believe there are reporters from SC hunting down that stripper as we speak. This could get very entertaining.
If she is found, will Fits do as Larry Flynt became famous for and show us “pink”?
What good is it going to do if they find her.They don’t have any money to spare.
You’d better believe there are reporters from SC hunting down that stripper as we speak.
For a generous expense account, TBG is willing to do some freelance work….
Correct that to: free LANCE work ( o, great red man warrior)?
Don’t think there are any legal consequences for adultery regardless, no matter if you make race an issue. Some Liberal-Tarian you are.
Anyway this site asks the question: “Is there any real chance of a federal indictment?”
http://scdigest.blogspot.com/2014/06/the-benjamin-pr-strategy-jimmy-metts.html
That news site is covering the Benjamin scandal better than any I’ve seen. Several articles about his behavior. It asks questions other media freas to ask.
“this site”, Emily why don’t you just fess up and say it’s your site… your site that nobody visits even though you’re repeatedly begging for people to visit it. This must be just like high school prom season all over again for you.
Hey Squishy…Not sure if I’ve seen anybody so personally invested in the hope another’s failure.
And: What if you’re wrong about the traffic rate on the site???…That’s gonna be funny…LMAO…
I’m just going by the lack of any comments left to your articles. You can have a million daily hits, if you don’t get one comment it’s not a blog, it’s a personal journal.
Not a marketing major, I take it. LMAO…
Nope and I take it you weren’t a journalism or advertising major. Idle and empty, that sounds like your blog Emily.
Like I thought. LMAO… You are too F*#king Stupid to offer a thought of your own.
Like most liberal Dolts, you simply try to throw my words back at me,…You bring nothing to the table, but ignorance….even after I invited to provide some of your ideas….You are a classic Dumb@$$…You have nothing to offer, and you hate those who can.
Boy this blog failure project is really starting to get on you isn’t it. Emily, have you realized that I’m not alone, that nobody here (or on your blog) give a shit to even bother discussing anything worth discussing with you?
As a side note, I want to express my wholehearted approval of the ads picturing the attractive Asian chicks. This beats the crap out of toenail fungus ads any day of the week.
I’m not sure what the Asian women are offering, but they seem friendly. How come the ads switch to hairy shirtless men whenever there is a story on Lindsey.
$%#@#$ All I had to do was mention his name and the hairy men appear.
Oh crap! I think you might be on to something there, Bible Thumper. What it is, I’m not sure, but we are probably better off if we know it is happening.
“How To Pay Off Debt With 18 Months Of No Interest”
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I do believe the girl in the ad danced at Platinum Plus and Heartbreakers a couple of years ago. A very nice girl with a great personality.
I guess black trash wanted him some white trash.
What’s the difference between a 300 dollar meal and a 300 dollar hooker – it’s the same tax dollar.
Page views, that’s the difference.
“What’s the difference between a 300 dollar meal and a 300 dollar hooker”
Even I know the answer to that.
You can get sick from eating one and get a full belly with the other?
Can a “hair pie” be considered a meal?
No – appetizer works for me.
Surely Deandrea is smart enough to know this is probably not the first time for hubby. So were they strippers or prostitutes?
MIght be a Bill and Hillary thing. It’s all about power and what they can do to advance each-other’s political career.
So the fact the stripper was white adds a little mustard to the story?
More like mayo.
Da mayor love him some mayo.
Imbecile.
Take it easy. It’s a hot summer, care for some watermelon?
Why go to Florida and spend all that money for strippers when USC is right there in Columbia. All that money leaving the state…
He didn’t want his former Police Chief’s leftovers.
White women have always been Steve Benjamin’s kryptonite
I haven’t been around much. I’ve seen dance poles and table dances. The picture above combines the two.
White gal, black gal– whatever– he ain’t gay– “not that there is anything wrong with that”
Errybody …sing along to the tune of the SUBWAY jingle:
“FIVE. Five dollar white girl. Five……”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7lR3YDzKCA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGQ-ISsDm8M
There was a time when that pole pic would have included at least one
hooker stripperexotic dancer.Misty water-colored mammarys …
There was a time when that pole pic would have included at least one hooker stripper exotic dancer.
Good times.
Good times.
T-Bones @T-Bars
Back in the day, was an ad campaign for steak lunches at Charleston’s Wild Wild Joker *supper club*.
OMG: While talk of adultery and strippers rages, Mayor Benjamin goes Global…Warming, that is. You won’t believe this:
You gotta read: Embattled Benjamin plays Climate Card! http://scdigest.blogspot.com/
Emily, Emily, Emily, are you now just cutting and pasting your posts you made on The State? Which by the way appears people are just ignoring over there too. Maybe you should do something productive, like baking cookies or ironing something.
You ever heard of something called “Social Media” – you Dumb@$$?
Or has the DNC not sent you a talking point for idiot robots, on it yet?
Emily, how does your ghost town of a blog qualify as social media? Pull up your big girl panties and admit it, your blog is a failure. Social media typically involves more than one way communication, and from what I can see you’re over there talking to yourself.
My friend Z-TAC (Zero Talent Ass Clown) asked me to upload this photoshop for him. At present, he’s not on speaking terms with Will but he said he had to jump into this melee…
http://2big2fall.wordpress.com/2014/06/27/will-folks-pole-dancer/
You never stop living up to your acronym.
Don’t you have some mom-son porn to upload?
I hear a dog whistle…..
She may want to get checked.
OMG. I think I just figured out who GT is. Has there been any speculation on that over the years?
He uses the same tone in his work correspondence. Not sure if he’ll get to stay working all that long as a result, but that’s none of my business. His customers are the ones who get sold out. Regularly.
Ignore the bribery, influence peddling and other general political corruption/criminal activity and instead focus on a black politician being serviced by a white stripper. This is low, even for Fits. If a buddy of mine bought me an “entertainment package” that included a stripper, you best believe I would partake in the whole menu too.
Pinson is going to take T-Bone down with him. One Pinson quote from the phone taps re: Columbia “This is my city. I’ll buy the next congressman.” This on top of Benji reported saying the feds won’t f*ck with him because “I’m the first black mayor of Columbia” and “Clyburn’s handpicked successor.”
Why the racist insistence by FITS? This is yur tea party right here.
Wager on Bob Hughes sending Stevie B on a high roller trip for kicks and giggles to get a little support?
Wonder how the wife feels knowing she is now in 2nd place to the white ho chasing the ol Alabama black snake. Me thinks she may drop the gavel on his roaming dick.
Pinson & Benjamin being on the “down low” were probably disappointed that their night together was spoiled by having to have sex with a white “dirty leg” whore.