The claim: Perdue filed and signed off on manipulated information in Franklin County Circuit Court after missing a legal deadline. Through Perdue, Valerie Venning filed a written claim the next month at the courthouse in Rocky Mount, claiming a share of the estate. Venning and Perdue knew the information to be false but still filed it with the court, Coley wrote in her motion for sanctions. The “incorrect” date appeared on the court’s online docket, which was later corrected to “reflect the actual filing date,” Coley wrote. Messages left with assistants for Coley, Perdue and Perdue’s attorney, John Lichtenstein, were not returned by deadline Thursday.