Part of: Mace vs. the Solicitor: the campaign against the prosecutor in her own cases (2025)
SLED Checked 26 of Mace's Allegations. The Prosecutor Called Her Description of the Video 'Inaccurate, if Not False.'
SLED's 147-page report looked at 26 allegations Rep. Nancy Mace made against four men on the House floor. The Post and Courier got the report and the prosecutor's memo through an open records request. Solicitor Scarlett Wilson wrote that the video Mace described shows the opposite of what she said, calling her description 'inaccurate, if not false'. On a separate claim, four witnesses told SLED the camera she called hidden in Bryant's condo was in plain view. SLED also found no child sexual abuse images. All four men named by Mace issued strong denials. Mace did not respond to the paper.
"If Mace were a witness in a prosecution derived from this investigation, her credibility would be destroyed by her inaccurate, if not false, description of the video of this encounter." Solicitor Scarlett Wilson to SLED, August 2026, as reported by The Post and Courier
On Oct. 16, 2026, The Post and Courier published what it found in SLED's 147-page investigative report and in the prosecutor's memo on it. The paper got both through an open records request. Parts of each were redacted. The report covers 26 allegations Rep. Nancy Mace made against the four men she named on the House floor on Feb. 10, 2025.
Here is what the record shows.
- The video Mace described does not show what she said. Per Wilson's memo, it shows a woman who appeared coherent, competent and an active participant, the paper reported.
- Four witnesses said the camera was in plain view. Mace is the only person who claims to be a victim of it.
- SLED found no child sexual abuse images. All the women pictured were at least 18. All images of children showed them fully clothed.
- Her other allegations did not hold up. Domestic violence, extortion, blackmail and sex trafficking: investigators found each one lacking or short of what a charge needs.
- Musgrave was cleared again. Wilson wrote there is "zero evidence" he committed a crime.
The video
On the House floor, Mace said the recording showed Bryant approach an incapacitated woman in bed: "There was no life. There was no movement. I couldn't tell if she was alive."
Authorities viewed the recording. According to Wilson's memo, they found no indication that a sexual assault had occurred, The Post and Courier reported. The paper summarized her finding this way: the video "contradicts Mace's statements, Wilson wrote, showing a woman who appeared to be coherent, competent and an active participant in the encounter, even giggling on occasion."
Wilson then wrote:
"If Mace were a witness in a prosecution derived from this investigation, her credibility would be destroyed by her inaccurate, if not false, description of the video of this encounter. Her exaggeration of what the video depicts renders her perception of the facts underlying the events outlined in your report unreliable."
She added that it was "unfathomable" a jury would conclude from the evidence at hand that Bryant had committed a crime, per the paper.
The report also records the other side. The paper reported that, nearly a decade later, the woman told agents she now sees the encounter as non-consensual.
The "hidden" camera
Mace told Congress that Bryant used a hidden camera to record "many women" at his Isle of Palms condo without their knowledge, including her.
At least four witnesses told SLED the camera was in plain view in the condo, and that Bryant put it there because he was concerned his son was having parties there, the paper reported from the SLED report. Wilson noted that the video Mace gave SLED is grainy and that it is hard to identify her in it. No one else came forward.
"Only one person claims to be the victim of Bryant's voyeurism: Nancy Mace. Despite Mace's claims to the contrary, it is highly unlikely that a jury would believe that Mace was unaware of the camera located above the refrigerator in the kitchen ..."
No child sexual abuse images
Mace told Congress that Bryant kept images of underage girls in what she called "premeditated, calculated exploitation." SLED found nothing to support it, Wilson's memo stated.
Mace's own private investigator told SLED he found no child sexual abuse images on Bryant's phone. SLED determined that every woman pictured was at least 18. From the report:
"All images reflected individuals to be fully clothed, no nudity observed, and no sexual abuse observed."
The report does note explicit images and videos of adult women on the phone. Agents could not identify some of the women, and others appeared to have taken the images themselves, the paper reported.
Trafficking, blackmail, extortion, domestic violence
Over the investigation, Mace brought SLED more allegations: domestic violence, extortion, blackmail and sex trafficking. The report shows agents ran down each lead. Investigators either found the claims lacking or found too little evidence to pursue criminal charges, The Post and Courier reported.
On the House floor she had called the four men "predators" and "this cabal of sex traffickers." (Congressional Record, H609) The record the paper describes does not support that claim.
Musgrave, cleared again
Wilson wrote that there is "zero evidence" Brian Musgrave committed a crime. The report says he and Bryant co-owned the condo.
"Without question, however, should Nancy Mace be called as a witness at trial in a prosecution stemming from any of the allegations in (SLED's) report, her credibility would be thoroughly undermined by her false allegations against Mr. Musgrave."
She also wrote that Mace's "spurious claims" against Musgrave "demonstrate the severe credibility complications that taint some of the evidence underlying other allegations." Solicitors Duffie Stone and Kevin Brackett reviewed the investigation in August and sent memos agreeing with Wilson.
Why no false-report charge? Wilson noted that Mace made the Musgrave allegations in public, not directly to investigators. Under South Carolina law, that means she cannot be charged with making a false statement to law enforcement.
Musgrave sued Mace for defamation. A federal judge in Charleston dismissed the suit in August 2025 under the Westfall Act, which shields members of Congress over their official acts. The ruling did not decide whether her statements were true.
How it started, and how the speech landed on SLED
The report says SLED opened the case in mid-December 2023 after a call from U.S. Capitol Police. Mace had gone to Capitol Police with concerns that Bryant recorded her on hidden cameras. She later gave the FBI and SLED a typed 28-page statement titled "Memo for Law Enforcement."
Mace told agents her suspicions began on Halloween 2023, when FITSNews founder Will Folks texted her screenshots of Bryant on a dating app, the report states.
SLED was already investigating when she gave the speech. The captain running the case was not made aware of her plans to give the speech until shortly before it was broadcast, the report stated, per the paper.
The denials
All four men named by Mace issued strong denials when The Post and Courier contacted them right after her address, the paper reported. Bryant's attorney, Jerry Theos, said Mace's speech has now been found unreliable and not credible by investigators and prosecutors, and that it "is replete with blatant falsehoods, untruths, and inconsistencies."
What Mace has said
Mace did not respond to The Post and Courier's request for comment on Oct. 16. She declined to comment on the case the day before.
Sources
- Glenn Smith and Jocelyn Grzeszczak, "SLED investigation found little to support several of Nancy Mace's claims," The Post and Courier, Oct. 16, 2026. Reports on SLED's 147-page investigative report (July 2026) and Solicitor Scarlett Wilson's memo to SLED (August 2026), obtained through an open records request.
- Scarlett Wilson, memorandum to SLED Capt. Haley Nelson, Aug. 14, 2026, p. 3 (redacted copy), as published by FITSNews
- Rep. Nancy Mace, House floor speech, Feb. 10, 2025, Congressional Record, vol. 171, no. 27, pp. H607 to H612
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