Russell Laffitte, former CEO of Palmetto State bank convicted of helping Alex Murdaugh steal from clients, is again asking for a new trial since Murdaugh was found guilty.
hundreds of thousands of dollars from six of the former lawyer's clients, according to federal prosecutors.While the initial indictment did not mention Murdaugh by name, it said Laffitte collected nearly $392,000 in fees for serving as a personal representative for the six clients of a"personal injury attorney at a law firm in Hampton, South Carolina," according to a July press release from the U.S. Attorney's Office, District of South Carolina.
Laffitte transferred personal loans to himself and Murdaugh from the six conservator accounts, and they used the funds for personal expenses, prosecutors said during his trial last year. The new motion for a new trial quotes Murdaugh's testimony when he took the witness stand in his own trial."I don’t dispute any of this — that I took money that didn’t belong to me, that I misled people… that trusted me to do that and that what I did was terrible. I don’t dispute that," Murdaugh said."…Russell Laffitte never conspired with me to do anything. Whatever was done, was done by me.
The Laffitte and Murdaugh families rose to South Carolina prominence around the same time in the early 20th century, when the Lafittes founded Palmetto State Bank, and the Murdaugh family began Peters Murdaugh Parker Eltzroth & Detrick — now known as The Parker Law Group.
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