Six months after her $16,700 fine was slashed to $1,200, Mace still hadn't paid. She says she 'cut a check this week.'

Six months after the S.C. House Ethics Committee unanimously voted to reduce Nancy Mace's $16,700 in state ethics fines to $1,200, public records reviewed by the SC Daily Gazette showed she had not paid even that reduced amount.

Confronted with those records in June 2024, Mace said she had "cut a check this week."

The timeline at that point:

• 2021: Post and Courier first reports $5,100 in unpaid fines; Mace's office says she will address them.
• 2022: Fines become a re-election campaign issue; Mace's campaign again says she is "in the process" of resolving them.
• March 2023: Tab stands at $16,700. Committee staff notes years of unanswered outreach.
• December 12, 2023: Mace closes her state campaign account, writing off $11,200 as "technical accounting errors."
• December 14, 2023: Committee votes unanimously to cut the fine to $1,200 after her appeal cites hardship.
• June 2024: Records show the $1,200 still unpaid. She says she "cut a check this week."

Mace's congressional salary is $174,000. The State Ethics Committee cited the closure of her campaign account and COVID-era family hardship as the basis for the 93-percent reduction.

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Sources: SC Daily Gazette (June 20, 2024) · Post and Courier (Dec. 14, 2023) · Full story: State ethics fines reduced from $16,700 to $1,200