A South Carolina Democratic state senator has resigned from his post amid allegations that he deposited campaign money into a personal account, using some of that cash to make purchases at an adult bookstore.
Sen. Robert Ford (no relation to the alleged crack smoking Toronto mayor, Rob Ford) was admitted to a hospital Thursday evening for chest pains, and did not return to the state capital Friday for the second of two days of Senate Ethics Committee on eight alleged violations of state ethics laws against him, according to The State. He was released from the hospital sometime Friday morning.
Ford, who was first elected in 1993, has denied the allegations, saying that he never spent campaign money on himself and that the purchase at the adult stores were gifts for two campaign workers.
