South Carolina attorney guilty of murdering wife and son was indicted on He was charged with another round of financial crimes. This time, prosecutors said Alex Murdau stole $295,000 from his brother and a law firm founded by his prominent legal family a century ago.
Age 54 Murdow faces nine additional charges in an indictment handed over and released by a state grand jury on Tuesday. Friday.
Murdau is likely to face trial in January for the murder of his 52-year-old wife Maggie and his 22-year-old son Paul in the June 2021 shooting. They were killed with another gun outside the family's home in Colton County, according to investigators.
facing charges of Most of them were financial crimes and the prosecutor said he was at least $8.5 million from the settlements he made for about a dozen poor clients in injury or wrongful death cases. He said he stole the dollar.
But officials say he dragged his ring and his 437 check worth. It is said that he also wrote letters and laundered money. His $2.4 million to employees and others to circumvent bank reporting requirements. Murdoh tried to get a man to kill him so his surviving son could take out his $10 million life insurance policy, investigators said. .
If convicted of murder, Murdau faces his 30-year life sentence without parole. The crime is also punishable by death, but prosecutors have not said whether they will seek the death penalty. Dozens of other charges combined put him in prison for hundreds of years.
In the latest indictment, prosecutors said Murdoh received funding from the PMPED law firm, a law firm founded by his family more than 100 years before him, to pay millions in small Hampton counties. said he had become a legal giant who won the dollar verdict.
Some lawyers lend money to the firm at the beginning of the year to pay for their expenses, and pay it back when their regular income comes in. According to one indictment that wrote a dollar loan repayment check, it was supposed to go to his brother.
According to the second indictment, Murdaugh also took approximately $175,000 in settlement money that would have gone to a law firm.
Money His laundering and computer crime charges arose because Murdoh hid money from banking regulations by means of small online transfers and checks made to himself and others. investigator said.
Through his lawyers, Murdoh categorically denies murdering his wife and son. His lawyer said he also has a plan to right any financial wrongs he can. He has been an elected prosecutor in four counties in and around Hampton County for more than a decade.
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