Tag: Russell Laffitte

Judge Sets $1 Million Bond for Former CEO Russell Laffitte, Accused of Fraud in Murdaugh Saga

By Sammy Fretwell and Jake Shore From The State (Columbia, S.C.) COLUMBIA, S.C.—A judge set a $1 million bond Friday for fired Hampton County banker Russell Laffitte, who is accused of scheming with suspended attorneys Alex Murdaugh and Cory Fleming to defraud legal clients of settlement money. Circuit Judge Alison Renee Lee set the bond…


Ex-Banker Charged With Conspiring in Murdaugh Money Scheme

COLUMBIA, S.C.—A grand jury has indicted the former CEO of a South Carolina bank on charges of conspiring with once-prominent, now- suspended attorney Alex Murdaugh to defraud victims—including the family of a deaf man who became quadriplegic after a car crash — of $1.8 million. Russell Laffitte, who headed Palmetto State Bank until he was…