The ex-CEO of Palmetto State Bank was sentenced in August to seven years in federal prison for helping Murdaugh steal nearly $2 million from clients.
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The judge held off setting a trial date for the 21 state charges against Russell Laffitte. The alleged co-conspirators cycled into court separately one after the other to learn what their futures would hold. Convictions would carry up to five years in prison for each count.Īlso pending Thursday were case updates for two men who have already been found guilty in federal court for assisting with those plots. He faces an additional nine counts of tax evasion for allegedly ducking just under $487,000 in state incomes taxes. Other charges relate to an eight-year drug ring and money laundering scheme that prosecutors say involved $2.4 million in checks written to a friend who used some of the money on a painkiller distribution network. He is also accused of stealing nearly $7 million from his law firm over a nine-year period during which he made almost $14 million. Victims included the family housekeeper who died in a fall at the Murdaugh home. Murdaugh has been indicted for taking $8.8 million in legal settlements from clients who were badly injured or the families of those killed on the job.
He said he would not presume that jurors could not be assembled. Newman, the same judge who presided over the nearly six-week murder trial earlier this year, said the indictments were issued across many counties home to people capable of serving on a jury.
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