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On the surface, Chuck Wright was the squeaky-clean sheriff of Spartanburg County, one of South Carolina\u2019s largest and most prosperous areas. He had risen from deputy to the county\u2019s most popular elected official, and he oversaw a department of 600-plus deputies, detention officers and civilian staff.<\/p>\n

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But beneath the above-reproach image and below the radar of public oversight, Wright was crooked \u2014 stealing from a charity fund, giving his cousin a no-work job and bullying employees to turn over to him painkilling drugs they got for legitimate medical purposes.<\/p>\n

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On Tuesday, Wright \u2014 who pleaded guilty earlier this year \u2014 will learn his fate: prison or probation?<\/p>\n

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He will stand before U.S. Judge Timothy Cain in the Spartanburg federal courthouse for sentencing.<\/p>\n

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Before Cain pronounces sentence, assistant U.S. Attorney Elliott Daniels will catalog Wright\u2019s offenses, noting that the ex-law officer, who was sheriff for 20 years and won election five times, has pleaded guilty to three felonies: embezzlement, giving a no-show paying job for a cousin and obtaining prescription drugs like oxycodone and hydrocodone under false pretenses.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWright\u2019s schemes represent a grave breach of the public\u2019s trust,\u201d Daniels wrote in a sentencing memo to the court.<\/p>\n

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\u201cHe took a law enforcement office entrusted to him for over 20 years and used it to perpetuate schemes involving theft, deception, and controlled substances,\u201d Daniels wrote.<\/p>\n

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Wright\u2019s defense lawyers \u2014 Greg Harris of Columbia and former U.S. Rep. Harold \u201cTrey\u201d Gowdy III \u2014 will plead for mercy.<\/p>\n

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\u201cCharles Wright appears before this Court having taken as much personal and professional responsibility as a person can take,\u201d Harris and Gowdy write in a defense memo.<\/p>\n

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The thefts<\/h2>\n

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Wright\u2019s thefts began in 2017, according to the prosecution report. One of the main subjects of Wright\u2019s thefts was the department Benevolence Fund, a supposedly secure pot of money meant to provide for officers in need.<\/p>\n

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\u201cDonations to the Benevolence Fund were meant to be available to Spartanburg County deputies and their families when they suffered bereavement, financial difficulty, or line-of-duty trauma,\u201d the prosecution\u2019s report said.<\/p>\n

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\u201cFrom 2018 until his resignation, Wright took more than $89,000 in cash from the fund, despite a policy prohibiting cash withdrawals. There is no accounting for how Wright spent that money, and the withdrawals frequently put the account in a deficit,\u201d the report said.<\/p>\n

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Travel, food and hotels for Wright were charged to the Benevolence Fund. \u201cOn one occasion, Wright travelled to Washington, D.C. to honor a fallen deputy. During that week, he spent more than $4,000 from the Benevolence Fund on his own travel,\u201d the report said.<\/p>\n

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Wright, who was addicted to painkilling prescription drugs, also took $1,000 out of the Benevolence Fund to pay a pusher for the drugs, the report said.<\/p>\n

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Wright also misused his department credit card, putting more than $17,000 in personal expenses on the card, the report said.<\/p>\n

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The personal expenses included paying for Amazon Prime, the Apple iTunes store (he liked the Castle Crush game), Sirius XM and various online video games, fitness and health programs and a Christian streaming entertainment platform, the report said.<\/p>\n

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Wright\u2019s thefts from the Benevolence Fund caused problems for his staff.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe fund\u2019s money was spent faster than the donations came in. And when the wife of one deputy was in hospice with stage 4 cancer, the deputy\u2019s family approached the Benevolence Fund for financial assistance. They were turned away because there were no funds available,\u201d the report said.<\/p>\n

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\u201cTaken together, Wright stole more than $112,000 from the county through the Benevolence Fund scheme and through misuses of his county credit card,\u201d the report said.<\/p>\n

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Wright\u2019s no show job scheme<\/h2>\n

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In 2021 Wright arranged for a cousin, Lawson Watson, to be employed in the civil division of the sheriff\u2019s department. Under the arrangement, Wright would not have to do any work for or even show up.<\/p>\n

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The scheme \u2014 in which Watson made $57,000 a year for no work \u2014 went on for years until an anonymous caller phoned in a tip to the county tip line.<\/p>\n

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The tipster reported that Watson was Wright\u2019s cousin, and that on paper he was a code enforcement officer, but in truth he had not worked in years. At most, Watson worked three times a year, the report said, quoting the tipster.<\/p>\n

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After receiving the tip, the county conducted an audit. An investigation began. The State Law Enforcement Division and the FBI interviewed more than 20 witnesses.<\/p>\n

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They found that Watson did not check his e-mail, did not know how to submit a time card \u201cand his computer was usually inaccessible because of an expired password,\u201d the report said.<\/p>\n

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\u201cBut Watson did use his county phone and county vehicle \u2014 for a different job, a paving and grading business that he owned and operated during business hours. At times, he would have a county employee help him prepare paving quotes. His county-issued vehicle was filled with dirt, consistent with it being used for his grading business,\u201d the report said.<\/p>\n

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During the years Watson was an employee with the county, he collected $349,885 \u201cin stolen wages,\u201d the report said.<\/p>\n

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That $349.885 figure not only includes pay, but also wages, vehicle mileage, FICA, Medicare, contributions toward his health insurance and retiree payments, a victim impact statement from Spartanburg County said.<\/p>\n

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Pressuring employees for drugs<\/h2>\n

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In his final years as sheriff, Wright became addicted to prescription drugs, the report said.<\/p>\n

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\u201cDuring that time, Wright bought pills from a street-level pill dealer, including in the sheriff\u2019s department parking lot. He requested pills from subordinate employees, and he took pills under false pretenses from families experiencing medical hardship,\u201d the report said.<\/p>\n

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\u201cAfter the partner of one employee died of a drug overdose in 2024, Wright asked that employee for prescription pain medicine that the employee could access. The request upset the employee, who knew that others at the department were being asked the same by Wright. And when that same employee went for a dental procedure, the sheriff approached again, asking for pills a total of three times.<\/p>\n

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\u201cOne employee believed if they failed to provide drugs to Wright, there would be consequences because Wright had \u2018complete control\u2019 over their job,\u201d the report said.<\/p>\n

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What punishment will Wright get?<\/h2>\n

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Under government sentencing guidelines Wright should get from 33 to 41 months in jail.<\/p>\n

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That\u2019s a normal range for a first offender with a non-violent crime who has also stolen from a charitable organization and betrayed the public trust, prosecutors argued in the sentencing memorandum, prosecutors argued.<\/p>\n

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In their sentencing memorandum, Wright\u2019s lawyers depicted him as a thoroughly disgraced man who is remorseful and accepts responsibility. Traumatic incidents in his childhood led to him becoming a criminal, they argued.<\/p>\n

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Any sentence Wright gets should emphasize \u201ctreatment, supervision, and accountability \u2014 rather than a lengthy period of custodial incarceration,\u201d his lawyers wrote.<\/p>\n

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At Tuesday\u2019s hearing, Judge Cain will hear from Dr. Donna Maddox, a forensic psychiatrist, who will testify that Wright suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder.<\/p>\n

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\u201cLaw enforcement is a profession that routinely exposes its officers to violence, human suffering, and tragedy, often without meaningful opportunity for emotional processing. Mr. Wright internalized those experiences for years, believing \u2014 as many officers are conditioned to believe \u2014 that endurance and silence were part of the job,\u201d his lawyers wrote.<\/p>\n

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\u201cMr. Wright has never privately or publicly made any effort to excuse his conduct. To the contrary, he accepted responsibility the minute he was confronted by friends and former law enforcement colleagues, which was well before any formal charges were filed.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt is important for the Court to know that these crimes are the natural and direct consequence of a hidden addiction, an effort to keep that addiction hidden, and a reluctance to address both the physical and psychological pain he has experienced from childhood until the day he cleaned his office out,\u201d his lawyers wrote.<\/p>\n

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Wright has already completed an inpatient treatment program for his drug addiction, they wrote, treatment that led to his voluntarily resigning his sheriff\u2019s position and accepting responsibility. And he pleaded guilty to the crimes, which \u201cmade him a convicted felon for the remainder of his life.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Wright\u2019s story is one of resilience, his lawyers wrote. “He left an abusive home at age sixteen. He had grown tired of the physical abuse and being asked about the marks and bruises on his body left by an abusive parent. Having nowhere else to turn, Mr. Wright lived in a fire department, never finished high school, and yet somehow later earned the trust of a county to serve as its chief law-enforcement officer.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cHe has a supportive wife and family who have helped him navigate the difficult path to acceptance and recovery,\u201d his lawyers wrote.<\/p>\n

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Defense lawyers also named seven other former S.C. sheriffs who committed criminal acts similar to those committed by Wright.<\/p>\n

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Of those seven, four who pleaded guilty got probation or light sentences, defense lawyers argued. Of the other three, all of whom chose a jury trial, only one got more than two years \u2014 Chester County Sheriff Alex Underwood, who received 46 months in prison after being convicted for conspiracy, wire fraud, deprivation of rights and federal program theft.<\/p>\n

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Moreover, other South Carolina criminals who committed serious crimes have gotten off easily, defense lawyers argued.<\/p>\n

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Without mentioning former Colleton County clerk of court Becky Hill, whose jury tampering actions led to the overturning of Alex Murdaugh\u2019s double-murder conviction, defense lawyers pointed out that Hill only received probation.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThis Court is not being asked to excuse any of the misconduct of Mr. Wright. To the contrary, he offers nothing but remorse and contrition coupled with embarrassment for what he has done and for placing himself before this Court,\u201d defense lawyers wrote.<\/p>\n

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\u201cRather, this Court is asked to sentence a person who fell into the throes of addiction after a lifetime of service and who has taken every possible step to confront that illness with honesty, responsibility, and humility. Mr. Wright has already lost his career, his reputation, and the trust he valued most.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Watson, who has pleaded guilty to wire fraud in connection with his no-show job at the sheriff\u2019s department, is scheduled to be sentenced Thursday, July 9, along with another department ex-employee involved in the sheriff\u2019s illegal schemes.<\/p>\n

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John Crangle, a Columbia lawyer who has written on public officials\u2019 ethics and has a book coming out in the fall about 47 South Carolina sheriffs dating back to 1964 who have broken the law, said Wright should go to prison.<\/p>\n

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\u201cHe deserves a very severe sentence,\u201d said Crangle, both to send a message to the public and because Wright\u2019s transgressions were serious.<\/p>\n

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