CHARLESTON, S.C. - A North Charleston nonprofit being investigated on allegations of misuse of donated money has turned over about 1,000 pages of financial documents asked for by state agencies, an attorney for the Good Samaritan Mission said.

The mission has turned bank statements, deposit slips and real estate transaction records to the Revenue Department and the Secretary of State's office, said Jim Miles, hired to represent mission founder Albert J. Salmon.

It could be weeks or months before the state completes its review of the records, some dating back more than a decade, and determine whether charges will be filed against the 56-year-old Salmon.

Miles predicted the state would give the 25-year-old nonprofit a "clean bill of health" when the probe is concluded.

"We have absolutely provided the Department of Revenue and the Secretary of State's office with everything we have," said Miles, who was secretary of state when the mission was first investigated in 1992. "There is nothing left out there."

The state launched an investigation of the mission's finances after The (Charleston) Post and Courier reported that Salmon had apparently used money from the homeless shelter to buy cars, houses, trips.

Miles also said this week that Salmon has assembled a temporary board of directors with the hopes of replacing it with a permanent board soon. A 1994 state law requires that all nonprofits be overseen by a board consisting of at least three directors, something the mission has lacked for about a decade.

The secretary of state's offices said this week that no information relating to the new board of directors has been recorded, and Miles said he did not know whether his client had filed the list of board members with the state.

The investigation has made fund-raising difficult for the shelter, Miles said. Despite that, the mission will host its traditional Thanksgiving meal from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. in conjunction with Lord of the Harvest Christian Faith Center on Rivers Avenue, he said.

"The mission has no money. Albert has no money," Miles said. "Every time he tries to raise money, he gets bad publicity, which effectively shuts it down."

The shelter, which once rented rooms to 40 to 50 men a week, has been virtually shut down since May, when city building inspectors cited the mission for violations ranging from operating without a business license and unsafe wiring to overcrowding and uninhabitable conditions.

Salmon, who pleaded guilty in September to 17 code violations, has until the end of December to pay North Charleston $6,000 in fines.

Construction crews have been in recent months trying to repair the buildings. City Building Director Darbis Briggman said none of the mission's cited structures have yet received a certificate of occupancy.

Information from: The Post And Courier