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South Carolina Solicitors’ Contact Information

Posted on December 29, 2010 by Joe Griffith 2

South Carolina Solicitors’ Contact Information S.C. Solicitors     Abbeville County (Eighth Circuit) (Back to top) Jerry W. Peace P. O. Box 516 Greenwood, SC 29648-0516 Telephone (864) 942-8800 Fax (864) 942-8830 Aiken County (Second Circuit) (Back to top) Barbara … Continue reading →

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Former Lee County South Carolina Sheriff Convicted in Public Corruption Prosecution by U.S. Attorney

Posted on November 13, 2010 by Joe Griffith 2

The 47-page indictment of former Sheriff Melvin had alleged that he ruled Lee County like a kingpin for a decade after being elected sheriff, soliciting bribes from drug dealers, extorting businessmen and fixing tickets for a fee.

One witness testified that he saw Melvin dealing cocaine out of the Sheriff’s SUV in 2006, and the government introduced scores of tapes implicating the Sheriff in misconduct in office.

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Motion for Downward Departure and/or Variance in Bank Fraud Case involving Bank Loan Officer

Posted on November 3, 2010 by Joe Griffith 2

In 2008, South Carolina Crimina Attorney Joseph P. Griffith, Jr. filed a motion for a downward departure and/or a variance from the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines recommended sentence in a federal bank fraud case involving a senior level bank loan officer employed by a bank in Charleston, South Carolina. The banker was making fraudulent loans to a home builder borrower in an effort to lend his poorly performing customer back to health. In reality, the loan officer was just throwing good money after bad. The result was that he was indicted for bank fraud after the home builder’s fraudulent loans were discovered and the home builder ran to the U.S. Attorney’s Office and cut a deal to dime out the loan officer in order to receive a downward departure for substantial assistance under Section 5K.1.

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