Rocky Mount Mayor Holland Perdue is facing legal trouble over his day job as an attorney.
Perdue’s onetime opposing counsel in a contested will has filed a request for sanctions against him. The claim: Perdue filed and signed off on manipulated information in Franklin County Circuit Court after missing a legal deadline.
The case against Perdue remained on the court’s docket this week, with no hearing date set.
Lindsey Coley, who represents the estate of Selby Gregorie “Greg” Venning III, has asked a judge to award the estate attorney’s fees “incurred as a direct result of the false misrepresentations and inaccurate statements” in Perdue’s pleadings on behalf of his former client, Valerie Venning…