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Hi, I'm Lindsay Graham, the host of Wondries Podcast American Scandal.

Our newest series looks at the Kids for Cash Scandal,

a story about two judges who stood accused of making millions of dollars

in a brazen scheme that shattered the lives of countless children.

Listen to American Scandal on Amazon Music or wherever you get your podcasts.

We are floating along Lake Wiley, South Carolina, which is a roughly 20-mile-long lake.

As we've been cruising along here, it has looked like an episode of lifestyles of the rich

and famous. A lot of well.

It certainly is. There are a million dollar homes. If you look at this one here, this is

a Clayton estate.

Stephen and Lana moved into it in 2015 and it's actually modeled after President George Washington's

mountain vernan estate.

Stephen Clayton was a very well-liked person.

He had lots of friends, very sociable.

Lana worked as a nurse in several different veterans affairs hospitals.

Stephen Clayton was found dead at the bottom of a staircase.

At the outset, this appeared to be a natural death.

It looked like a man who had fallen down a flight of stairs.

Yes, who had been ill according to his wife and then she found him an unresponsive.

She was crying and she was upset.

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