The former CEO of Palmetto State Bank, accused of conspiring with convicted murderer Alex Murdaugh to steal from Murdaugh’s personal injury clients, is pleading guilty.
Russell Laffitte entered into a plea agreement filed in the US District Court for the District of South Carolina on Monday. His change of plea hearing before Judge Richard M. Gergel is set for Friday.
Laffitte was tried and convicted of conspiracy to commit wire and bank fraud, bank fraud, wire fraud, and misapplication of bank funds in November 2022, but he won his bid for a new trial last year after the US Court ...
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