In the wake of a report that South Carolina’s financial leaders allowed a $1.8 accounting blunder to linger on the state’s ledger for nearly a decade, one House Democrat is calling for the impeachment of state Treasurer Curtis Loftis.

House Speaker Murrell Smith has pledged investigations into South Carolina Treasurer Curtis Loftis' handling of a $1.8 billion accounting error made by his office that was allowed to fester for years.

In a shocking revelation, a nearly $2 billion accounting blunder has rocked South Carolina’s state finances. On Wednesday evening, Governor Henry McMaster confi

I think it’s important to note, this is not any fraud, this is not a misrepresentation, that this is just incompetence, in errors that have occurred over a period of time,” SC House Speaker Murrell Smith said.

South Carolina lawmakers are calling for the state treasurer to be impeached after an independent audit found that a suspected $1.8 billion thought to be in a state bank account never existed. The results of the audit,