This is Hidden Killers with Tony Bruske.

Here now, Tony Bruske.

In so many cases, there's that guy behind the guy, the one who doesn't fire the weapon,

doesn't face the consequences because there's a guy in front of that guy.

But sometimes they do.

Sometimes consequences do catch up to those, even the guy behind the guy, behind the guy.

The one who doesn't fire the weapon, who doesn't forge the signature, doesn't take the stand

and meltdown on live TV, but quietly moves the money,

stamps the papers, and makes the whole crooked circus possible.

I've seen this in a lot of cases.

In the saga of Alec Murdo, the Shakespearean moment, it goes to a man named Russell Lafitte. That's where this saga takes us back to.

He is that guy. A man with a clean suit, a shiny title, just enough South Carolina pedigree to slab past

security. Y'all have some sweet tea while you're down here, all right? Wasn't bad, huh? My Southern? I don't know. I spent a week there this summer.

So, of course, now I'm an expert on how to speak in South Carolina.

No, I'm not.

But it's a nice place. People are friendly.

It's easy to get sucked in and think, oh, this is great.

I come from another friendly place. Wisconsin's like that too. Very friendly. And if you have nefarious means and you're friendly too, you can very easily pounce on the goodness of other human beings who are used to interacting with the goodness of other human beings.

Making a mistake, this isn't a case of a clueless banker duped by a cunning lawyer.

This is about a man who knew the rules, had the power to enforce them, and instead chose to break them again and again,

to keep the murder machine humming.

And now, that man's heading to prison, state and federal after pleading guilty to eight felony counts in South Carolina and six federal crimes tied to one of the most

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