Suspended attorney Cory Fleming is scheduled to be sentenced in federal court on Tuesday, August 15, 2023 for his involvement in stealing $4.3 million from Gloria Satterfield’s family. Fleming, a longtime friend of co-conspirator Alex Murdaugh, accepted a plea...
Russell Laffitte Sentenced to 84 Months in Federal Prison
On August 1, Judge Richard Gergel sentenced Russell Laffitte to 84 months in federal prison plus five years of probation and ordered him to pay over $3.55 million in restitution. Judge Gergel heard from nine defense witnesses and several victims in court Wednesday...
Former Palmetto State Bank CEO Expected To Get Decade in Federal Prison
US Attorney Emily Limehouse doesn’t appear to be pulling any punches in a sentencing memorandum filed ahead of the August 1 hearing where disgraced banker Russell Laffitte will learn his sentence. Laffitte is expected to spend anywhere from 9 to 11.4 years in...
What Happened to Grant Solomon? Family Wants Answers In So-Called Dragging Death
Ray Whitley, the district attorney in Tennessee’s 18th Judicial District, says there’s nothing criminal about the July 20, 2020, death of 18-year-old Grant Solomon. “There has been a very thorough investigation done on this, and there’s just nothing there,” he said in...
Judge Orders ‘The Critical Kay’ to Pay $500K for Malicious and Untrue Statements about Grieving Mother
A federal judge in Mississippi has ordered Karen Yax — aka ‘The Critical Kay’ — to pay half a million dollars to a grieving mother after accusing her of bribing witnesses, “getting young people drunk” and contributing to the death of two young men, including the...
Justice for Tiffany: Supporters Say Domestic Violence Victim Should Be Freed from Prison
Advocates for a Greenwood, SC, mother of five are pushing the South Carolina Department of Corrections to grant her parole or a full pardon in the 2017 stabbing death of her boyfriend. Tiffany Janae Carroll, now 36, pleaded “guilty but mentally ill” to voluntary...