"Cousin Eddie" is back behind a bar in South Carolina, but no one says why.
Curtis “Eddie” Smith,In September last year on a rural road in Hampton County for a complex insurance fraud / suicidetrying to shoot and kill the now infamous former lawyer Alex Murdaugh. Accused-The hiring fraud was arrested by the State Law Enforcement Department (SLED) late Friday.
A deputy Sheriff of Colleton County in Walterboro's county detention center, where Smith is being held, said no information was available on the new accusations against Smith.
"He is detained for SLED, that's all," the official told the post on Saturday.
Smith, 61, was previously charged with suicide aid, assault, and a battery of highly deteriorating nature, and was insured in connection with firearms, insurance fraud, and the shooting of worker Madau. Pointed to and presented a fraudulent plot on a weekend day.
Smithtold the post in Septemberthat he did not shoot Murdo and denied any plans to commit suicide. He said it was founded by Madau to make him look like he was about to shoot.
Madau's lawyer accused Smith of being a drug dealer in Madau, but he denied it.
In December, Smith was nominated in a proceedinginvolving Murdo and Bank of America over amoney laundering program. In the proceedings, Madau issued 17 cashier checks totaling $ 164,748.76 to Smith and individually issued 254 personal checks to Smith, slightly over $ 1.8 million between 2015 and June 2021. Claimed to have done. Eight charges of financial fraud, primarily related to allegedly deceiving customers at his former law firm.
At some point he sees him as an "interested person" in the murder It was done. Maggie Madau, 52, was shot dead in his family's hunting lodge with his troubled 22-year-old son Paul . In Islandton, South Carolina.
Alex found his body at a lodge called "Mosel" around 10 pm. Coroners found that the victim was shot multiple times. It was reportedly a semi-automatic assault rifle and a shotgun. He decided that death was a double murder.
Neither SLED nor Smith's latest lawyer, Thomas Buchette, responded to calls or emails from posts about Smith's latest arrest.
SLED detectives say Madau told Smith to shoot his head so that his surviving son could collect life insurance.
