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- State prosecutors estimated Murdaugh stole more than $12 million from clients by diverting settlement money into his own accounts or stealing from his family law firm.
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Mar 26, 2024 · State prosecutors estimated Murdaugh stole more than $12 million from clients by diverting settlement money into his own accounts or stealing from his family law firm.
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The first time Murdaugh ran the fraud scheme using his bogus Forge account was in 2015, according to Friday's indictments. Murdaugh was representing Deon Martin, an Allendale man seeking a personal injury settlement. Documents outlining the circumstances of that case aren't published on Allendale County's publicly accessible court case index. The c...
Murdaugh would go on to employ the "Forge" trick again in 2016, according to grand jury affidavits. His next alleged victim was a Colleton County man namedManuel Santis-Cristiani. Details of this case are scant. No records at all are found on Colleton County's public court case index. According to grand jury charges, Murdaugh had Santis-Cristiani's...
Already well publicized are Alex Murdaugh's reported financial misdeeds against the family of his longtime housekeeper, Gloria Satterfield. This iteration of the "Forge" scheme also involved Chad Westendorf, vice president of Palmetto State Bank in a Hampton, and Beaufort attorney Cory Fleming, Alex's close friend, law school roommate, and godfathe...
Court records show S.C. Highway Patrolman Thomas E. Moore hired Alex Murdaugh to represent him in a personal injury case after getting rear-ended by an inattentive driver in Orangeburg County in 2018. Between January and May 2021, after a settlement was reached, state prosecutors claim Alex Murdaugh took control of $125,000 intended for Moore, then...
Indictments show the most recent instance of alleged fraud perpetrated by Murdaugh occurred between March and July 2021. If the allegations are true, that means Murdaugh was still actively involved in criminal activity more than a month after the still unsolved murders or his wife and son, Maggie and Paul. And the scapegoat for his crooked behavior...
Prior to Friday's charges, Murdaugh also recently was indicted on criminal charges related to a failed so-called suicide-for-hire plot, including insurance fraud and filing a false police report. In that case, Murdaugh is accused of recruiting friend and alleged drug dealer Eddie Smith to shoot and kill him along a rural stretch of Hampton County r...
Nov 23, 2022 · Murdaugh had a plan to steal the money, but needed someone organized and detail-oriented to prevent him from being easily caught, prosecutor Emily Limehouse said in her closing statement.
Mar 26, 2022 · Columbia, S.C. — Everyone trusted Alex Murdaugh. But for 10 years, without anyone noticing or reporting publicly, the disgraced South Carolina attorney allegedly stole $4 million from clients...
Nov 28, 2023 · Alex Murdaugh abused the trust of staffers and colleagues at his family’s law firm — then known as Peters Murdaugh Parker Eltzroth & Detrick and since renamed the Parker Law Group — to steal hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Pinckneys for his personal use, whether to pay back a personal loan, to pay his father, or to pay ...
Nov 28, 2023 · The emotional testimony from victims who had been duped by the disgraced lawyer came before a judge accepted a deal sentencing Murdaugh to 27 years in prison for stealing about $12 million.
Apr 1, 2024 · Murdaugh has admitted to stealing millions from clients and his law firm, saying he used the millions to fund an all-consuming drug addiction. But he has maintained his innocence in the...
