This is another article about Cory Fleming's deal and charge. This seems to have more details in it than what I have read before.
Same as Lafitte, Fleming hasn't been sentenced yet but could get up to 5 years. Murdaugh has 22 charges so if he got 5 years for each then that would be 110 years. Lafitte was found guilty of 6 charges, so could be facing 30 years IMO.
Fleming, Lafitte and Murdaugh were childhood friends.
Suspended Beaufort lawyer Cory Fleming pleaded guilty Thursday to one federal charge of conspiracy to commit wire fraud in a scheme that involved now-convicted double-murderer Alex Murdaugh.
news.yahoo.com
From the link -
In March 2019, after a mediation, Nautilus Insurance Company agreed to pay the Satterfield estate $3.8 million, the charging document said.
Fleming then prepared a fraudulent disbursement statement for Satterfield’s estate, with about $1.4 million going toward attorney’s fees and about $2.7 million going to the estate, the charging document said.
Fleming collected approximately $672,595.85 in attorney’s fees — less than half of the $1.4 million in attorney’s fees he reported to the circuit court, the charging document said.
The disbursement sheet also said $105,000 was for “Prosecution Expenses,” but it really went to Fleming and Murdaugh “for their own personal enrichment,” the charging document said.
Acting under Murdaugh’s direction, Fleming in May 2019 issued a check for nearly $3 million in Nautilus settlement funds to “Forge,” a phony company Murdaugh created with a checking account. Murdaugh deposited the check into his fake Forge account, the charging document said.
In October 2020, at Murdaugh’s direction, Fleming issued another check to “Forge” for $118,000, the charging document said. Fleming also in three separate transactions wrote a total of $26,000 in checks out of the Satterfield settlement funds for himself.
In all, Fleming, acting under Murdaugh’s direction, and Murdaugh took some $4.3 million from money due to the Satterfield estate — money that the Satterfield sons never received, the charging document said.
To get the matter approved by a circuit court judge, Fleming on two occasions in 2019 took two “fake disbursement sheet(s)” showing where the Satterfield estate’s supposedly went, the charging document said.
Judge Carmen Mullen was
the judge who approved the phony disbursement sheets submitted by Fleming, according to undisputed news accounts about the case. Mullen has declined comment, and there is no evidence she participated in the scheme.
The embezzlement of Satterfield’s estate was first revealed in the early fall of 2021 in a lawsuit brought by
attorneys Eric Bland and Ronnie Richter, who represented Satterfield’s sons, who alleged Murdaugh and Fleming had schemed to steal the estate’s money.
Fleming had no knowledge of Murdaugh’s numerous other criminal schemes to defraud others, his charging document said.
This is a developing story. It will be updated
