By Delayna Earley
The Island News
Cory Fleming, a suspended Beaufort County attorney, will stand trial on Sept. 11, 2023, for financial crimes that he allegedly committed with former Hampton County lawyer and convicted murderer Alex Murdaugh.
Fleming went before Judge Clifton Newman on Friday, April 21, at the Hampton County Courthouse.
Fleming allegedly helped Murdaugh steal $4.3 million from the sons of Gloria Satterfield, the Murdaugh family’s housekeeper, that was awarded to them by Murdaugh’s liability insurance company after Satterfield’s 2018 death that resulted from a fall at one of Murdaugh’s homes.
According to grand jury indictments, Murdaugh allegedly conspired with Fleming to steal the insurance money from Satterfield’s sons. Most of the money went to Murdaugh, but Fleming also received money from the settlement.
Fleming will be represented by attorney Debbie Barbier and the plaintiff, Michael “Tony” Satterfield of Hampton, will be represented by Columbia-based attorney Eric Bland.
At this time no trial date has been set for Alex Murdaugh, who is currently serving two consecutive life sentences for the murders of his wife and son, Maggie and Paul Murdaugh, at their family’s Colleton County Moselle estate in June 2021.
Delayna Earley lives in Beaufort with her husband, two children and Jack Russell. She spent six years as a videographer and photographer for The Island Packet and The Beaufort Gazette before leaving the Lowcountry in 2018. After freelancing in Myrtle Beach and Virginia, she joined The Island News when she moved back to Beaufort in 2022. She can be reached at delayna.theislandnews@gmail.com.
