After four years of criminal charges, guilty pleas and humiliation, ex-banker Russell Laffitte had nothing to say.
“Your honor, I don’t think Mr. Laffitte wants to address the court,” Laffitte’s lawyer Mark Moore told S.C. Judge Heath Taylor on Monday at Laffitte’s sentencing hearing — the final act for one of South Carolina’s most high-profile white collar criminals before reporting to prison.
But a few others in the second-story courtroom at the Richland County courthouse in Columbia had plenty to say about Laffitte, who with Alex Murdaugh brought unprecedented scandal and disgrace to South Carolina’s supposedly honorable professions of banking and the law…