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The White family lived there as tenants for at least five years, paying an undisclosed amount of rent while Brian White collected campaign donations from his landlords and executives with their company. During that time, White chaired a House subcommittee overseeing the state’s health care spending and policies, including those affecting the nursing home industry. And in 2012, Bradley Moorhouse was appointed to a state committee that reviews health care facility expansion permits and regulations. White’s living arrangement is an example of the cozy relationships and potential conflicts of interest that South Carolina’s weak ethics rules ignore. Ethics rules don’t, for example, require disclosure of the rent White was charged by a campaign donor. White has ignored repeated requests for comment, dating back to September, and when a reporter attempted to interview him at the Statehouse on Thursday, White quickly shut down the questioning. “What’s that got to do with anything?”

White said when asked about his rental arrangement. He refused to comment further. White’s family moved to the Moorhouse property at a time when Brian White’s power in the Legislature was growing fast, and campaign donors — particularly in the health care field — were taking notice. In 2010, White became chairman of the House Ways and Means Health Care Subcommittee, which guides budget decisions about health care, and the following year he ascended to chairman of the powerful state budget-writing Ways and Means Committee. Bradley Moorhouse, administrator of NHC Healthcare Anderson, said it would be “totally inappropriate” to question if the house rental and campaign contributions were related, or connected to any business interests. “I’ve known Brian since before he was ever in the Statehouse and he’s a friend of mine,” Moorhouse said. In addition to Bradley and Brian Moorhouse, National Healthcare Corp.’s political action committee, NHC’s regional vice president and NHC’s Tennessee-based chief operating officer also donated to White’s campaign fund in 2009, state records show.

As an influential member of the legislative leadership, White has been showered with campaign donations — more than $400,000 since the start of 2009, despite facing no opposition in any election. Hospitals and nursing homes are White’s top industry for donations, followed by the pharmaceutical and the medical equipment industry. White, an insurance agent, has spent the majority of the campaign money he’s collected, drawing criticism along the way from multiple news outlets and political blogs for vague campaign finance reports that list expenses such as “credit card payment” and his practice of donating campaign money to groups associated with his wife. As The Post and Courier reported last year with the Center for Public Integrity, in the investigative series “Capitol Gains,” White gave $9,000 from his campaign war chest to the nonprofit Tri-County Technical College Foundation, where White’s wife, Courtney, is the senior fundraising official. His campaign also pumped nearly $10,000 into Anderson Interfaith Ministries, where Courtney White is vice chair of the board of directors.

White and his wife did not return phone calls and emails seeking comment for that story, but around that time he hired a lawyer at a Columbia law firm. “We have done some campaign compliance work for him, but we have no comment,” said Bakari Sellers, a lawyer with the Strom Law Firm who was a state representative and a 2014 candidate for lieutenant governor. Moorhouse said the Whites moved to his property because their house sold in 2008 more quickly than Brian White had expected, and Moorhouse had an empty home he’d bought as an investment but couldn’t sell due to the recession. “This house was vacant, and dilapidated on the inside,” Moorhouse said. “He asked if he could rent it and I said OK.” Despite the poor condition of the house described by Moorhouse, White, his wife and their growing family — the Whites have three daughters — lived in that house from late 2008 until they bought a house for $295,000 in 2014. While the Whites were tenants, Bradley Moorhouse became an appointee to South Carolina’s Health Care Committee, which plays a role in the regulation of nursing homes and other health care facilities.

Moorhouse is vice chair of the committee, serving a term that runs until June. “Brian has no involvement with that whatsoever,” said Moorhouse, who noted that he served on the same committee during Gov. David Beasley’s administration. South Carolina is one of the National Healthcare Corp.’s top markets, with 2,141 nursing home beds, home care programs in nine cities, hospice locations in seven, and assisted-living facilities in Charleston, Columbia and Greenville. In 2015, NHC declared $906 million in net revenues, 65 percent of which came from Medicare and Medicaid payments. South Carolina has been a growth market for the for-profit nursing home industry, with the second-largest increase in nursing homes among states from 2008 through 2012, while the number of nursing homes nationwide declined, according to the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. It was no secret that White lived at the Moorhouse property on 2933 Concord Road — White listed the house as his address in a legislative manual, registered the family cars there, and listed the address on a deed for a building lot he purchased — but what remains undisclosed is the rent White paid to live in a home owned by campaign donors.

It’s an example of the questions and potential conflicts of interest that proposed changes to South Carolina ethics laws would not address. “There’s no provision in any ethics bill I know of that would force Brian White to disclose a rental agreement unless the people are registered lobbyists or lobbyist principals,” said John Crangle, executive director of Common Cause South Carolina. Bradley and Brian Moorhouse are not registered lobbyists, and NHC is not a lobbyist principal. “That’s a real gap in disclosure laws,” Crangle said. “If you had total income disclosure, perhaps it would have to be disclosed if you were renting below fair-market value.” Moorhouse said he feels the Whites paid fair-market rent because the house had been vacant and “was in disrepair.” He did not say what the rent was. Although White reported the Moorhouse home as his address for years, the fact that the home was a rental property escaped the notice of the Anderson County Assessor’s Office.