Crime & Safety

Frazier Loses West Columbia Consultant Position

Amid an investigation into Frazier's involvement in the gambling industry, the City of West Columbia decided to end his position as a consultant.

Lexington Town Councilman Danny Frazier is no longer a consultant for the City of West Columbia, according to a report in The State newspaper. 

City leaders decided that Frazier's position as an annexation adviser will end on Sept. 20, according to the report. He was paid $1,500 a month. 

The decision comes a week after Frazier while SLED investigates reports that he's involved in the gambling industry.

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Frazier is also .

, Frazier said he has done nothing illegal but made a "serious error in judgment" when he "boasted" and "exaggerated" in a conversation that he didn't know was being recorded.

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A source turned over that conversation to the Free Times, the Columbia weekly that originally .

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