Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Alvin Greene was indicted by a grand jury in Columbia today on charges he showed pornography to a University of South Carolina freshman months before he became the upset - some say bizarre - winner of the partys nomination in June.The indictment names two charges against Greene: a felony for disseminating, procuring or promoting obscenity, and a misdemeanor of communicating obscene materials to someone without consent.
Greene, 32, was arrested in November - long before he first was considered a candidate - when authorities said he approached a female freshman from Summerville in computer lab, showed her obscene photographs that were online, and talked about heading to the womans dorm room.
Reached at his home in Manning by The Post and Courier, Greene declined comment. "My lawyer is dealing with that," he said. Then, seemingly annoyed at media phone calls, he blurted "Thats it," before hanging up.
His attorney Eleazer Carter of Columbia, said this afternoon he had not been formally told of the indictment by the Solicitors Office but that he was not surprised to hear it was coming. "I probably suspected that it would be," he said.