A former S.C. political consultant and a former lottery vendor vice president have been charged with violating lobbying laws in North Carolina, according to court documents released Monday.

Kevin Geddings, who served as chief of staff to former Gov. Jim Hodges and helped coordinate the campaign to pass a state lottery in South Carolina, was charged, along with former Scientific Games International vice president Alan Middleton, with failing to register as lobbyists with the secretary of state’s office.

Wake County, N.C., prosecutors also charged Meredith Norris, who worked on N.C. House Speaker Jim Black’s staff from 1999-2002, but quit to work as a lobbyist while staying with his campaign as a volunteer until late last summer.

All of the charges are misdemeanors. If convicted, each could be barred from lobbying in North Carolina for two years but probably wouldn’t serve any jail time.

Middleton, 50, of Chapin, was a lobbyist for Scientific Games in South Carolina as the lottery here was being launched. Scientific Games won the contract, worth potentially more than $50 million, to operate the S.C. lottery.

Middleton is also accused of helping Norris illegally lobby before she registered as a lobbyist.

Attorneys for Norris, Geddings and Middleton didn’t immediately return phone calls Monday seeking comment.

Wake County District Attorney Colon Willoughby also did not immediately respond to telephone calls seeking comment.

Geddings, 41, now of Charlotte, was indicted last week on nine federal counts of mail or wire fraud. He is accused of failing to disclose his consulting firm received nearly $230,000 from 2001 to 2005 either from Scientific Games or a company it later acquired.

Geddings said last Friday he was innocent of the federal charges filed against him.

Black appointed Geddings to the commission last September but Geddings quit Nov. 1, hours before Scientific Games disclosed his financial connections to him. Black said he wouldn’t have appointed Geddings to the commission had he known about his consulting work.

All three have court dates scheduled for June 26, according to the warrants. Norris has been served her warrant, according to records, but it wasn’t clear Monday if Geddings and Middleton had been formally notified of the charges against them.

Scientific Games operates the S.C. lottery and was a losing bidder for the recently started N.C. games.