COLUMBIA — Former state Rep. RJ May failed to file state taxes for three consecutive years while serving in the S.C. Legislature, according to a months-long investigation into the disgraced lawmaker’s financial and criminal misconduct.

The disclosure came during a Statehouse ethics panel meeting Oct. 14 where an outside law firm delivered results of their probe into May’s conduct and business dealings.

The investigation found that May never filed taxes during three out of four years he was in office, including the taxes owed for his political consulting firm, Ivory Tusk.

Additionally, the attorney who delivered the report said some of May’s political allies and consulting clients ignored requests to cooperate with their review.

May, 39, a father of two and staunch conservative, was a

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