"A Verdict Looking for Evidence": Nancy Mace Demands for Letitia James the Due Process She Withheld From Four Men She Publicly Branded Predators, Nearly Three Years Into an Investigation That Has Charged None of Them

Three statements by Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC-01), in her own words, with the dates attached.

October 2, 2026, on X, about someone else: "That's not justice. That's a verdict looking for evidence."

February 10, 2025, in public, about four men she named: "These men aren't just criminals, they're predators."

December 1, 2023, on X, about George Santos: "Charges are not a conviction."

Now the clock. SLED opened its investigation in December 2023. As of today that is nearly three years, about 34 months. Mace branded the four men "predators" in public more than one year and eight months ago. In all that time not one of the four has been charged, and not one has been found guilty of anything. All four deny the allegations.

This page sets her lines side by side and then lists where the four men stand today, on the public record. Maceopedia takes no position on whether any underlying allegation is true. The subject is the standard Mace announces for others and the standard her own record shows. Readers can judge.

Her post of October 2, 2026

Rep. Nancy Mace's post on X, October 2, 2026, 3:04 PM ET (19:04 UTC). Click to open the original. Screenshot of the public post as rendered by X's own embed.

The full text, verbatim:

"Letitia James doesn't get to call 7 men at Cornell guilty before her investigation even starts. That's not justice. That's a verdict looking for evidence.

She doesn't know sh*t yet.

Nobody does. That's what the investigation is for."

What this page does and does not say about that post. The post refers to New York Attorney General Letitia James and to "7 men at Cornell." Maceopedia has not independently verified what James said or what investigation is under way, and this page takes no position on either. The point here is the principle Mace states in her own words: an accusation should not be treated as a verdict before the investigation has done its work, and "nobody" yet knows the facts.

Her words, side by side

Date	Her words	About	Source
Oct. 2, 2026	"That's not justice. That's a verdict looking for evidence. She doesn't know sh*t yet. Nobody does. That's what the investigation is for."	Letitia James and "7 men at Cornell"	X post
Dec. 1, 2023	"George Santos is an a--, who, like every other American, deserves the presumption of innocence until proven guilty in a court of law. Charges are not a conviction."	Rep. George Santos, under a 23-count federal indictment	X post (@RepNancyMace)
Feb. 10, 2025	"These men aren't just criminals, they're predators. ... these predators are not untouchable. These predators are not invisible. These predators are not invincible."	Four men she named beside a poster headed "PREDATORS"	C-SPAN

The Santos post, as published on X, reads "an ass." Maceopedia's convention is to print the censored form "a--," as the outlets that quoted it did. The October 2 post censors its own profanity as "sht," and that is reproduced as she wrote it.*

Her December 1, 2023 post from the @RepNancyMace account. Click to open the original.

In her own posts, before any charge

These are four posts from Mace's own official X account, @RepNancyMace, each about one of the men, each posted when no charge had been filed against him. For every post below, no charge had been filed at the time, and as of today no one has been convicted. The SLED investigation opened in December 2023, nearly three years ago. All four men deny the allegations. The posts are shown as X renders them, and each image links to the original post. X's embed truncates long posts, so the table gives the verbatim excerpt.

Feb. 11, 2025, about Brian Musgrave. Click to open the original post.

Feb. 11, 2025, about Patrick Bryant. The photo attached to the post is a portrait of Mr. Bryant. Click to open the original post.

May 20, 2025, about Patrick Bryant. Click to open the original post.

May 20, 2025 (8:07 PM ET; 00:07 UTC on May 21), about Patrick Bryant. The attached video thumbnail shows Mace at a House Oversight hearing beside a poster-board exhibit. Click to open the original post.

Date	Man	Her words, verbatim	Post
Feb. 11, 2025	Brian Musgrave	"So, Brian Musgrave, if there is no evidence, there would be no investigation."	X post
Feb. 11, 2025	Patrick Bryant	"None of this is conjecture. This is not an allegation. These are the facts. In black and white. Without exaggeration. Documented."	X post
May 20, 2025	Patrick Bryant	"Predator and rapist, Patrick Bryant, says he has 'never raped anyone... never hidden cameras... never harmed any woman...' 1. If you aren't a rapist, why would you film a rape and why would you be filmed raping another?"	X post
May 20, 2025	Patrick Bryant	"How it started: Rapist and sexual predator, Patrick Bryant said, my 'allegations are absolutely baseless...' How it's going: Evidence of rape and filming women without their knowledge or consent for up to a decade."	X post

Dates are U.S. Eastern except where noted. In the Feb. 11 Musgrave post she also wrote that SLED had confirmed an active investigation, which is the investigation described on this page. Neither a charge nor a conviction has followed for any of the four men.

She did not keep it to one room

The "predators" label was not a single moment. Mace named Patrick Bryant, Brian Musgrave, John Osborne and Eric Bowman on February 10, 2025, and then kept the accusation in public view. She mounted the poster of their photographs, names and home towns, headed "PREDATORS / STAY AWAY FROM," in the public corridor outside her congressional office, where, CNN reported, it stayed for weeks. She also pushed the poster out through her official social-media accounts, per our incident record, and she posted about the men by name on her own X account, as the posts above show. The record of the poster and the surrounding statements is at the "PREDATORS" poster outside her office, and the original speech is documented at the "PREDATORS" House-floor speech.

The speech was also not held back for the floor. The text of it was emailed out ahead of time, before she stood up to deliver it, and a recipient of that email has confirmed receiving it in advance. The words that named the four men were already in other people's inboxes before the House heard them.

The point is not where she was standing on any one day. It is that for more than a year and eight months, four named men have carried a public "predator" label from a sitting member of Congress, and the investigation she pointed to has produced no charge and no guilty finding.

In fairness, she has said what she relied on: she told the House she had seen "evidence of rape and the illegal filming of women and sex trafficking." The men deny the allegations, and no charge has followed. Both things are on the record.

Where the four men stand today

Every man below has denied the allegations. The record as Maceopedia has it: none has been charged, and none has been convicted.

Man	Charged?	Convicted?
Patrick Bryant	No	No
Brian Musgrave	No	No
John Osborne	No	No
Eric Bowman	No	No

Charged or convicted for the conduct Mace described. Every cell is "No."

The clock behind those four rows: SLED opened its investigation in December 2023, nearly three years (about 34 months) ago, and Patrick Bryant is the only one of the four SLED has publicly named as a subject. Brian Musgrave has said SLED told him he is not a target. Mace named all four in public on February 10, 2025, one year and eight months ago. Their responses: Bryant, "I categorically deny these allegations." Eric Bowman called the allegations "baseless, repugnant and defamatory." Musgrave and John Osborne deny them. Allegations referenced here are contested and the named parties deny them.

The comparison, stated as opinion

This section is Maceopedia's reading of the record, offered as disclosed-basis opinion. The basis is the three dated statements above and the dates and status in the table.

On October 2, 2026, Mace told her followers that calling men guilty before an investigation has begun is "not justice," and that "Nobody" yet knows the facts. In 2023 she said that even a man under federal indictment "deserves the presumption of innocence until proven guilty in a court of law," because "Charges are not a conviction."

Now compare the clock. When she branded four men "predators" in February 2025, the SLED investigation had already been open for about fourteen months and no charge had been filed. Today, nearly three years after it opened, there is still no charge and no guilty finding against any of them. By her own October 2 standard, an investigation is where facts are found, "Nobody" knows until it is done, and a verdict that arrives before the evidence is "not justice." Her label arrived first. The evidence she cited has produced no charge in nearly three years.

The standard she demands for Letitia James and for George Santos is the standard she did not apply to four men who deny what she said. She may well see a distinction. Some possibilities she or her supporters could offer: that a House member is in a different position than an attorney general running an investigation, that she said she had seen evidence, or that the cases differ in their facts. Those arguments are hers to make. What is on the record is the side-by-side: her own words, in her own order, with the dates, and the time that has passed.

Related Maceopedia coverage

• The "PREDATORS" House-floor speech (Feb. 10, 2025)
• The "PREDATORS" poster outside her office
• "Charges Are Not a Conviction": The Due-Process Standard Nancy Mace Keeps Only for Herself (July 31, 2026), which sets the same standard against her demands that Cory Mills, Eric Swalwell, Tony Gonzales and Max Miller resign or be expelled
• Mace's floor speech: "I'm going scorched earth" on predators
• Mace votes against Santos expulsion: "George Santos is an a--..."
• George Santos

Sources & related coverage

• Rep. Nancy Mace, post on X, October 2, 2026 (@NancyMace); text confirmed against the X post and its syndication record.
• Rep. Nancy Mace, post on X, December 1, 2023 (@RepNancyMace); also reported by The National Desk, Lawmaker defends decision to vote against Santos expulsion: "I won't play those games" (archived)
• C-SPAN, Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC): "I'm going scorched Earth." (Feb. 10, 2025) (archived); her full speech is also on her official YouTube channel, and the "criminals" and "predators" lines were checked against its captions.
• CNN (Em Steck and Andrew Kaczynski), Exclusive: Man accused as 'predator' by Rep. Nancy Mace breaks his silence (Mar. 10, 2025), on the poster outside her office.
• The 19th News, Nancy Mace misconduct allegations House floor speech (archived)
• The Wrap, Nancy Mace rape accusation House floor speech; People, Nancy Mace accuses ex-fiance Patrick Bryant and others
• Post and Courier and SC Daily Gazette, reporting on the four men named

This dispatch quotes verbatim from Rep. Mace's own public posts and statements and draws only on the public record. Every allegation described is unproven and contested. The named parties deny the allegations, and no one named has been found guilty of the conduct described. Nothing here states or implies that any of the four men did or did not commit any act. The comparison section is opinion based on the dated statements disclosed above, offered so readers can judge for themselves.