‘All My Love!’: In Plea To The Georgia Bar, Fleming Includes Texts and A Letter From Alex Murdaugh
Cory Fleming’s shocking defense in the Satterfield case revealed…
Fleming — who represented
Gloria Satterfield‘s family in the
$4.3 million settlement that was ultimately stolen — has retained Beaufort attorney
Thomas Pendarvis in his fight to get his attorney license back in the state of Georgia.
Fleming, a former partner at Moss & Kuhn in Beaufort, South Carolina, has taken a hard fall from grace alongside his best friend Murdaugh in the past six months. Fleming’s South Carolina law license was suspended in October after attorney
Eric Bland published a shocking
paper trail showing Fleming’s role in the botched settlement. In January, Fleming was suspended from practicing law in Georgia.
Fleming claims he was having “disagreements” with his law partners at Moss, Kuhn & Fleming and that is why he misappropriated more than $
26,000 from the law firm’s trust that he claimed was supposed to go to an expert witness for the Satterfield case. According to the indictments, Fleming spent this money on video game entertainment and used it to pay for his large credit card debt.
Pendarvis showed a text message from Alex Murdaugh to Cory Fleming sent on Sept. 28, 2021, while Alex was supposed to be in rehab for his alleged opioid addiction.
“You are the last person I would want to hurt and I know I did,” he said. “I’m still not sure how I let all of this happen.”
Alex Murdaugh said he “just wanted to say hello” to his pal Cory.
“I hope I get to see you or talk to you soon,” Murdaugh wrote.
At the end of the letter, he said he missed Maggie and Paul but has never been more proud of Buster. Later, Alex requests a favor of Cory to check on Buster if he has the time and desire to do so.
Alex And Cory
Fleming went to University of South Carolina for undergrad and the University of South Carolina School of Law. He graduated with Alex Murdaugh. They both sat for the bar together, and passed in the fall of 1994.
“They became close friends during law school,” the letter said.
From there, both Alex and Cory – who have been friends since they were kids – went on to work at the 14th Judicial Circuit Solicitor’s Office, where Alex’s father was the solicitor.
After a short stint as prosecutors, the two then joined Moss and Kuhn law firm in Beaufort. Cory, whose mother is from Beaufort, would go on to become a named partner and Alex would end up moving to Hampton County to work for his family’s firm Peters Murdaugh Parker Eltzroth and Detrick.
One month before he was indicted on 18 charges for allegedly helping
Alex Murdaugh steal millions of dollars from his dead housekeeper’s family, suspended attorney
Cory Fleming made a last-ditch effort to save his law license in Georgia.
Fleming — who represented
Gloria Satterfield‘s family in the
$4.3 million settlement that was ultimately stolen — has retained Beaufort attorney
Thomas Pendarvis in his fight to get his attorney license back in the state of Georgia.
Fleming, a former partner at Moss & Kuhn in Beaufort, South Carolina, has taken a hard fall from grace alongside his best friend Murdaugh in the past six months. Fleming’s South Carolina law license was suspended in October after attorney
Eric Bland published a shocking
paper trail showing Fleming’s role in the botched settlement. In January, Fleming was suspended from practicing law in Georgia.
Last week, he was indicted on 18 charges for allegedly defrauding Satterfield’s sons
Brian Harriott and
Tony Satterfield of more than
$3.6 million.
During his bond hearing Thursday, Fleming’s criminal attorney
Deborah Barbier didn’t go into details about Fleming’s defense for the Satterfield case.
However, a 50-page document by Pendarvis to the State Bar of Georgia that was recently obtained by FITSNews paints a detailed picture of Fleming’s defense in both the Satterfield case and the
Connor Cook case.
Considering the fact that prosecutor
Creighton Waters said this week that Fleming has not been cooperative with the investigation, it is significant — and interesting — that Fleming would be willing to put his side of the story on record in Georgia, especially in such detail.
The response also includes a stunning letter and screenshot from a text message between Murdaugh and Fleming.
In the document, Pendarvis claimed that Fleming is “simply another victim of the fraud and other professional misconduct by R. Alexander Murdaugh.”
Pendarvis argued to the Georgia Bar that while “there may have been minor, technical violations of some of the South Carolina Rules of Professional Conduct, Mr. Fleming’s conduct was consistent with the objectives of the South Carolina Rules of Professional Conduct.”
Alex And Cory
Fleming went to University of South Carolina for undergrad and the University of South Carolina School of Law. He graduated with Alex Murdaugh. They both sat for the bar together, and passed in the fall of 1994.
“They became close friends during law school,” the letter said.
From there, both Alex and Cory – who have been friends since they were kids – went on to work at the 14th Judicial Circuit Solicitor’s Office, where Alex’s father was the solicitor.
After a short stint as prosecutors, the two then joined Moss and Kuhn law firm in Beaufort. Cory, whose mother is from Beaufort, would go on to become a named partner and Alex would end up moving to Hampton County to work for his family’s firm Peters Murdaugh Parker Eltzroth and Detrick.
Fleming is Buster Murdaugh’s godfather, while Alex Murdaugh is is the godfather of Fleming’s two kids.
“During their 25+ years of friendship, Mr. Fleming developed a strong, trusting relationship with Mr. Murdaugh never doubting for a moment Mr. Murdaugh’s honesty, trustworthiness, and fitness not only as a lawyer, but also as a friend,” Fleming’s attorney wrote in the letter to the Georgia State Bar.
According to Fleming, their friendship was “destroyed” on Sept. 3, 2021 when he allegedly “first learned” of Murdaugh’s misdeeds. That is the same date when Murdaugh allegedly told his partners about the fraud at PMPED, which is what he said led him to his alleged suicide-for-hire plot the next day.
“As soon as Mr. Fleming heard Mr. (Lee) Cope describe Mr. Murdaugh’s use of a ‘FORGE’ account to secret money away from PMPED he realized he had been duped by one of his best friends — Mr. Murdaugh,” Pendarvis wrote in the document.
Though Fleming says he first learned of the fraud in early September, he did not report any of this to law enforcement nor did he contact the Satterfield family, which Waters noted in the bond hearing.
In early September, Eric Bland contacted Fleming twice asking him to produce documents on the Satterfield case. Fleming didn’t respond to either request, which prompted Bland to file a lawsuit on behalf of the Satterfield family.
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