Mace updates complaint on ‘fake company’ created to ‘defame, intimidate’ her
CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace updated a complaint seeking sanctions against a company she claims her ex-fiancé formed to target her as a key witness in a sexual assault investigation.
Mace claimed in a court motion filed on Wednesday that a company called GLT2 LLC, formed by her ex-fiancé, Patrick Bryant, filed court documents to authorize depositions from “John and Jane Doe” in what she calls a “deliberate abuse of the judicial process” that included a “coordinated media smear campaign using false statements” to discredit Mace as a key witness in a criminal investigation.
The petition to which Mace refers, filed on Feb. 21, sought authorization for depositions to determine the names of people who might have committed civil wrongs against the company. It did not mention Mace by name.
But Mace’s petition includes a transcript of an April 28 deposition of political consultant Wesley Donehue about his professional involvement with Mace. The text of the deposition states the consultant discussed Mace allegedly asking him to “blackmail” Bryant over a house after Mace “found things” on Bryant’s phone.
Mace updates complaint, names political consultant
The Congresswoman, who represents South Carolina’s First Congressional District, says she amended the complaint to name political consultant Wesley Donehue, whom she called a “longtime Bryant associate and former Mace consultant.”
In the updated complaint, she said Donehue “falsely accused Mace of attempting to blackmail Bryant with explicit material” Mace said she found on Bryant’s phone of alleged sexual assaults and misconduct.
Mace says Donehue alleged Mace withheld footage from law enforcement “for the better part of 2024 to coerce Bryant into giving her two tly-owned homes.”
“Those accusations are false,” Mace said in a release, who said she turned over evidence to federal and state authorities in 2023, long before the alleged conversation with Donehue.
“Mace met with law enforcement and provided all evidence long before she came to an agreement with Bryant on their real estate,” a release from Mace’s office states. “The investigation was well underway during the entire year 2024.”
In the portion of the deposition Mace provided with her original complaint, Donehue was quoted as saying one of the reasons he left Mace’s campaign was that he felt “uncomfortable with the things Mace was asking” him to do and that he “didn’t want to get in any legal trouble.”
Mace claims Donehue’s claims were then leaked to the media.
She said the deposition centered exclusively on her communications, yet she had no opportunity to object, be present or even be informed about the deposition.
“They filed a fake petition to buy time, conducted an unauthorized deposition behind closed doors, then leaked those lies to the press,” Mace said. “This was not a lawsuit - it was a smear campaign disguised as legal process.”
Donehue responded late Wednesday afternoon to Mace’s allegations:
It’s just another day of Nancy Mace drama. The voters are so sick of her soap opera and are ready for her to focus on the issues important to Lowcountry families.
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