A banker charged with helping disbarred attorney Alex Murdaugh take money from the legal settlements of clients was found guilty of wire and bank fraud charges in South Carolina.
Prosecutors had to prove Laffitte willfully participated in the fraud to convict him.
Laffitte loaned Murdaugh and himself money from those settlements, diverting that money from personal injury or death cases. “None of this would have happened without Alex Murdaugh, but none of it could have happened without the defendant,” Limehouse said.
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