Attorney Profile for Beattie B. Ashmore
650 E. Washington Street Greenville, SC 29601
Phone: 864-467-1001 E-Mail:
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Mr. Ashmore was born and raised in Greenville, South Carolina as were his parents
and grandparents. He graduated from the College
of Charleston in 1981. After graduating from the University of South Carolina
School of Law in 1986, he clerked for Bankruptcy Judges for four years.
From 1990 through 1996, Mr. Ashmore was a Federal Prosecutor in the U.S.
Attorney's Office in South Carolina. He spent three years in the civil
division and three years in the criminal division. His civil division
areas of practice involved defending the United States and its agencies
in all areas of civil litigation and trials. His civil trial experience included
wrongful death, medical malpractice, various tort actions and asset forfeiture.
While in the criminal division of the United States Attorney's Office,
Mr. Ashmore prosecuted hundreds of cases including bank fraud, wire fraud,
weapons charges, bankruptcy fraud, securities fraud, bank robbery, money
laundering, and drug conspiracies. In Mr. Ashmore's last year as an Assistant
United States Attorney, he had the highest number of convictions in the
State of South Carolina with over 160 convictions. He received a special
commendation from the Director of the FBI in 1993 for the successful conviction
at trial of two defendants in a multi million dollar white collar fraud
case.
Mr. Ashmore's trial experience includes dozens of trials. He
has represented hundreds of individuals in State and Federal criminal
courts having tried cases ranging from DUI to murder. Mr. Ashmore has
significant experience in white collar crimes to include securities fraud,
health care fraud, investment schemes, environmental crimes, and long
term Government investigations of individuals and corporations. In May
of 2009, his client was found not guilty after a jury trial in Federal
Court in Anderson, South Carolina on all six counts of mail fraud. His
client was accused of participating in a twelve million dollar fraudulent
scheme.
Mr. Ashmore has argued before the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals and
the State of South Carolina Court of Appeals and Supreme Court. He obtained
a reversal of a voluntary manslaughter conviction in the State of South
Carolina Supreme Court and was lead counsel in the underlying murder trial.
In 2006, a Federal Judge granted a suppression motion filed by Mr. Ashmore
after a two-day hearing in Greenville, SC which was related to an unconstitutional
search on Interstate 85. The indictment was dismissed.
In the civil arena, Mr. Ashmore's experience includes defending an international
mining company against nine hundred and seventy-five individual federal
lawsuits; an oil company that discharged one million gallons of diesel
fuel into the Reedy River in a class action and related criminal case;
and a trucking company in an eighteen million dollar settlement of three
Federal wrongful death lawsuits. He has spoken at numerous legal conferences
and he has been interviewed on the Fox News Network's nationally televised
"On the Record with Greta Van Susteren." Mr. Ashmore has represented
clients in a number of other States. He has been associated as local counsel on many occasions
by some of the largest law firms in the nation.
In 2000, Mr. Ashmore was appointed by a Federal Judge in Anderson, South
Carolina, to serve as the Receiver in a criminal case involving an international
fraudulent scheme of over 50 million dollars. Over 25 million dollars
was recovered from around the world and returned to 900 investors making
this one of the most successful Receiverships in the Country. In 2006,
he was appointed by a South Carolina Circuit Judge as Trustee in a civil
action in Greenville County involving the handling of electronic personal
data belonging to teachers and students. In 2007, he was appointed by
the Federal Court in Charleston, South Carolina, to serve as
Trustee in a criminal case involving nine defendants with allegations of
securities fraud of over 30 million dollars. That same year, he was appointed
Receiver by a Federal Judge in Columbia, South Carolina in a criminal
case involving an eighty million dollar fraudulent pyramid scheme with over 7,000 victims.
In 2006, Mr. Ashmore was appointed by the South Carolina Supreme Court to
the Commission on Lawyer Conduct which deals with disciplinary proceedings
against members of the South Carolina bar. In 2007, he was appointed to
the Upstate Citizens Screening Committee which evaluates judicial candidates
for South Carolina Family Court, Circuit Court, Court of Appeals, and Supreme
Court. He is the past president of the Greenville Association of Criminal
Defense Lawyers. He is also a life member of the National Association of
Criminal Defense Lawyers.
Areas of Legal Pratice and Education:
Practice Areas: Criminal Defense; White Collar Crimes; Civil Litigation;
Personal Injury; Wrongful Death; Appellate Practice; Contracts; Tort Liability;
RICO; Securities Fraud; Copyright Infringement; Class Actions.
Admitted: 1987, South Carolina Bar; 1990, U.S. District Court, District
of South Carolina; 1992, U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.
Law School: University of South Carolina, J.D., 1986.
College: College of Charleston, B.A., 1981.
Significant Legal Cases:
- In 2009, Mr. Ashmore's client was found not guilty on all six
counts of mail fraud after a jury trial in Federal Court in Anderson,
South Carolina. Mr. Ashmore's client was accused of participating in
a 12 million dollar fraudulent investment scheme.
- In 2008, Mr. Ashmore was appointed by the Federal District Court
in Columbia, SC to serve as the Receiver in an 80 million dollar pyramid
scheme with over 7,000 investors.
- In 2007, Mr. Ashmore and his co-counsel won a declaratory judgment
trial in Federal Court in Spartanburg, South Carolina in which
an insurance company argued its policy did not apply in a case involving
two traffic fatalities.
- In 2007, Mr. Ashmore was appointed by a Federal Judge in Charleston,
SC to serve as Trustee in a 300 million dollar securities fraud prosecution.
- In 2006, after a two day hearing to dismiss an indictment due to an unconstitutional
search on Interstate 85, a Federal Judge in Greenville, SC granted the motion to suppress
the evidence and the indictment was dismissed.
- In 2005, Mr. Ashmore was appointed Trustee in a lawsuit in State Court in Greenville,
South Carolina to take possession of dozens of discarded computers that contained social
security numbers of thousands of Greenville County students and teachers.
- In 2000, Mr. Ashmore was appointed by a Federal Judge in Anderson, SC to serve as
the Receiver in a 50 million dollar pyramid scheme. Over twenty five million dollars was
recovered from around the world and returned to 900 investors.
- In 1997, after his client was found not guilty of a murder charge but convicted
of voluntary manslaughter, Mr. Ashmore filed and argued an appeal in the Supreme Court
of South Carolina and obtained a reversal of the conviction.
Legal Associations:
- South Carolina Bar
- American Bar Association
- National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (Life Member)
- South Carolina Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
- South Carolina Association of Justice
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