Top SCANA official said utility executives botched nuclear project in 2016 voicemail

COLUMBIA, SC -- A top SCANA accountant ranted in an early-2016 voicemail that her utility's executives were mismanaging their multibillion-dollar nuclear construction project and "breaking every friggin' law that you can break."

SCANA's executives were propping up the failing V.C. Summer construction project so they could meet profit goals and collect millions of dollars in bonuses, Carlette Walker, then SCANA's vice president of Nuclear Finance Administration, said in a voice message to Santee Cooper nuclear manager Marion Cherry.

In a five-minute-long voicemail, Walker urged Cherry to encourage Santee Cooper, the project's minority owner, to stop paying SCANA any more for the project's escalating construction costs.

“Whatever they’re telling y’all is just bulls--t," Walker fumed. "But anyway, I just wanted to let you know that I know the truth now, and I don’t want you and Santee to get screwed any more by the executives of SCE&G and SCANA."

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