Sam Staley
Sam Staley is a Charleston-area technology executive and a non-party witness whom Assignment Desk Works, LLC, the company of Rep. Nancy Mace's former fiancé Patrick Bryant, subpoenaed in Assignment Desk Works v. Berg, where a publicly filed motion to compel characterizes Staley as having connected Alexis Berg with Mace. The communications themselves were produced in discovery under a confidentiality designation and are not part of the public record; this entry summarizes only what the public court filing alleges.
Sam Staley is a Charleston, South Carolina technology executive, known as a founder and chief executive associated with the auction-and-fundraising software companies Bidr, Inc. and Event.Gives. He is separately a party to business litigation with Patrick Bryant, Rep. Nancy Mace's former fiancé, in a cluster of Charleston County cases that remain pending and contested, in which Staley disputes Bryant's claims. Staley was not named in Mace's February 2025 House floor speech, and no court has made any finding against him in connection with the matters described below.
Connection to the Nancy Mace record
Staley's documented connection to the Mace record runs through Assignment Desk Works, LLC v. Alexis Berg (No. 2025-CP-10-2671, Charleston County Court of Common Pleas), the breach-of-contract case brought by Bryant's company, ADW, against Alexis Berg over an alleged non-disparagement clause.
The subpoena and the motion to compel. On February 13, 2026, ADW issued a Subpoena Duces Tecum to Staley as a non-party witness, seeking his communications, with Berg, with Rep. Nancy Mace, with Melissa Britton, and with his wife Caroline Staley, concerning Patrick Bryant. When Staley did not respond, ADW filed a public Motion to Compel Compliance and for Attorney's Fees in March 2026. In that publicly filed motion, ADW characterizes Staley as "the hub of a coordination network connecting Defendant Berg with Congresswoman Nancy Mace," asserts that he connected Berg with Mace, and states that Mace told Staley and his wife "what [Patrick] did to me." ADW's filing states that, as of the motion, Staley had served no objections and produced no documents. Following a hearing, the court granted the motion and ordered Staley to produce the subpoenaed discovery within fourteen (14) days of the hearing. That ruling compelled production as a discovery matter; it made no finding on ADW's underlying "coordination" characterization.
These are ADW's allegations, advanced in a filing in its own lawsuit. They describe what ADW sought to establish through the subpoena, not facts any court has found. ADW's stated purpose is to probe what Berg knew, and when, in service of its contract theory against Berg; Staley's communications are framed as relevant to that question.
Related litigation between Staley and Bryant
Separately from the Berg subpoena, Staley is a party to a cluster of business lawsuits with Patrick Bryant and Bryant's companies on the Charleston County Court of Common Pleas docket. These civil disputes are unrelated to Mace's allegations; each remains pending and contested, Staley disputes the claims and has asserted counterclaims, and no court has entered final judgment. They are noted here as public docket matters, without endorsing either side's allegations:
- Patrick Bryant v. Sam Staley, No. 2025-CP-10-01872 (shareholder derivative action concerning Bidr, Inc.)
- Code & Trust, LLC v. Sam Staley, No. 2024-CP-10-05862 (vendor / unpaid-invoice contract dispute)
- Media Content Services, LLC v. Sam Staley, No. 2024-CP-10-05854 (web-hosting / services dispute)
Sources
- Public court record: Plaintiff's Motion to Compel Compliance with Subpoena Duces Tecum to Non-Party Sam Staley and for Attorney's Fees, Assignment Desk Works, LLC v. Alexis Berg (No. 2025-CP-10-2671, Charleston County Court of Common Pleas), filed March 2026, and the Court's subsequent order granting the motion and compelling production; available on the Charleston County Court of Common Pleas docket.
- Public dockets, Charleston County Court of Common Pleas: Bryant v. Staley (No. 2025-CP-10-01872); Code & Trust, LLC v. Staley (No. 2024-CP-10-05862); Media Content Services, LLC v. Staley (No. 2024-CP-10-05854).
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