Geddings' fraud conviction vacated
Geddings, a Sumter native and the former chief of staff for South Carolina Gov. Jim Hodges, had his 2006 felony fraud conviction vacated by a federal judge Friday, thus exonerating the former North Carolina lottery commissioner.
A 48-year-old Mount Joy, Lancaster County, woman was convicted of wire fraud last week after she defrauded a Jacobus real estate settlement firm and a real estate title insurance company out of more than $266,000, the US Department of Justice said.