S.C. Code Ann. § 34-28-740: False statement affecting credit or standing of association.

Any person who falsely and wilfully and with intent to injure circulates any report or makes any false oral statement as to the assets or liabilities of any association, savings and loan holding company, or any service corporation or subsidiary thereof, its solvency or ability to meet its obligations or its soundness or who makes any other false oral statement calculated to affect the credit or standing of any or to cast suspicion upon its solvency, soundness, or ability to meet its obligations in due course is guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction must be punished by a fine of not more than ten thousand dollars or by imprisonment for not more than one year, or both.