Jocelyn Grzeszczak
Reporter at Post and Courier
Editorial Commerce Producer at Dotdash Meredith
investigative reporter @postandcourier. NC born + raised. 📬 DM//[email protected]
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6 days ago |
postandcourier.com | Jocelyn Grzeszczak
CHARLESTON — Ex-Hampton banker Russell Laffitte is expected to plead guilty April 18 to a string of federal charges accusing him of helping disgraced lawyer Alex Murdaugh pilfer settlement funds belonging to his legal clients. Laffitte's hearing is scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. in downtown Charleston's federal courthouse.
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1 week ago |
postandcourier.com | Jocelyn Grzeszczak
Former Hampton banker Russell Laffitte has agreed to plead guilty to a slew of financial crimes, canceling his retrial on allegations that he conspired with disgraced lawyer Alex Murdaugh to steal from vulnerable clients. Laffitte, 54, signed the agreement with the U.S. Attorney's Office in South Carolina on April 11 — roughly three weeks before jury selection in his second trial was set to begin, court records show.
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1 month ago |
postandcourier.com | Jocelyn Grzeszczak
A judge dismissed a lawsuit filed against The Post and Courier by the Ninth Circuit Public Defender's Office, saying it violated the First Amendment. Circuit Court Judge Kristi Curtis signed a March 18 order granting the newspaper's request to dismiss the suit after she heard arguments in January from both parties.
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1 month ago |
postandcourier.com | Jocelyn Grzeszczak
North Charleston Councilman Mike A. Brown is among four people expected to enter pleas at 10 a.m. in Charleston's federal court as part of the FBI's sweeping public corruption case. A string of charges unsealed Feb. 26 exposed a troubling pattern of bribes, extortion and kickbacks in South Carolina's third-largest city. Eight defendants, including three City Council members, have been charged in the case.
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1 month ago |
postandcourier.com | Jocelyn Grzeszczak |Glenn Smith
When North Charleston leaders first floated the idea of paying nonprofits to help curb shootings in neighborhoods long besieged by crime, Councilman Jerome Heyward pledged to act. “Let’s move fast because the community need us more than they ever did,” he said at a May 2022 town hall. Behind the scenes, however, federal prosecutors allege Heyward was formulating a plan to pocket some of that taxpayer money for himself. In a wide-ranging public corruption case unsealed Feb.
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