136: Alex Murdaugh's Banker Buddy Gets Sentenced

Impact of Influence: The Murdaugh Family Murders and Other Cases

Matt Harris and Seton Tucker

True Crime

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🗓️ 2 August 2023

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Russell Lafitte, the former CEO of Palmetto State Bank, was sentenced in federal court on charges he schemed with Alex Murduagh to steal millions of dollars from his clients.

Seton was in the federal courthouse for the hearing.

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0:00.7	Impact of influence the Murdoch family murders. This is the unfolding story of a powerful South
0:06.0	Carolina family. The mysterious deaths they are linked to and our quest to bring you the truth.
0:14.9	Hello friend. Always grateful that you decide to spend time with us. There's so many options
0:22.7	out there. So many choices, but you've been going strong with us on impact of influence. I am
0:27.9	Matt Harris, seat in Tucker. Where can they find out more? You can find us on our Facebook page,
0:34.1	which is impact of influence. And we go right into Russell Afeet, the banker buddy of Alec Murdoch.
0:43.6	Yes, his sentencing hearing was held in Charleston, South Carolina and I made the trip. I was thinking
0:50.2	it was going to last a couple of hours at most, but it was a whole day thing and I had to get home
0:54.2	for some family obligations. So didn't make the whole day, but got to hear the morning
0:58.5	session and a lot of different arguments. I want to know about when you arrived because I saw
1:03.6	I think John Monk from the state paper of South Carolina had a picture of people waiting in line
1:09.7	to get in. It was very crowded. It was actually much more crowded than Russell Afeet's trial.
1:16.8	So I was shocked. I got there in plenty of time and barely made it in and wasn't able to actually
1:21.7	sit in the courtroom. They had another courtroom open for overflow. So I had to sit in there.
1:27.0	And I think part of the reason was there were a lot of family members and friends from Hampton
1:32.6	who were there as well as a lot of attorneys and victims. So there was just a big crowd.
1:37.1	And so you go in and the day starts with what? The day started off reviewing the offers of
1:44.6	sentencing that were presented to Russell Afeet by the government. And the government had two
1:50.6	offers that they presented. One was 72 months or six years. If Afeet admitted full responsibility
1:57.2	and gave up any attempt to argue ineffective assistance of counsel or 87 months a little over
2:03.6	seven years without taking full responsibility. And I believe that full restitution was required
2:10.8	in both of these offers, but they had some acoustic difficulties. So it was kind of hard to hear
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