Murder’s simply the tip of the iceberg with Alex Murdaugh … the feds say he plotted with financial institution CEOs and different attorneys to plunder thousands and thousands from shoppers, and the property of the housekeeper who died mysteriously in his residence.
The feds simply dropped a 22-count indictment on the convicted assassin, and in keeping with the docs … Murdaugh had fairly the operation going behind the scenes of his household’s private harm regulation agency.
Perhaps essentially the most disturbing cost entails Gloria Satterfield, the Murdaughs’ longtime housekeeper, who died in 2018 after an alleged slip and fall — brought on by the Murdaughs’ canine — within the household’s residence.
According to the indictment, Murdaugh beneficial Gloria’s household rent one other legal professional … who was certainly one of Murdaugh’s shut pals.
That lawyer negotiated settlements for Gloria’s dying from 2 insurance coverage firms — Lloyds of London and Nautilus Insurance Group — totaling about $4.3 million. However, the feds say the lion’s share of that settlement obtained funneled into an account Murdaugh set as much as appear like a legit consulting agency … however it completely was not.
Gloria’s members of the family spoke out within the Netflix documentary, “Murdaugh Murders: A Southern Scandal,” and mentioned they by no means noticed a dime of the insurance coverage payouts. This indictment backs that up, and gives a solution for the place the cash went … allegedly.
The Satterfields are simply certainly one of a number of of Murdaugh’s monetary victims, in keeping with the indictment, which particulars different alleged incidents of pilfering his shoppers’ funds.
He’s accused of cash laundering, wire fraud, financial institution fraud and conspiracy to commit fraud.
Of course, Murdaugh was sentenced to life in jail earlier this yr for the 2021 murders of his spouse and son. He cannot get extra time behind bars, however the feds can accumulate cash and belongings for his victims … if he is convicted. Again.