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Court
January 16, 2024

Court Clerk Ordered to Testify as Alex Murdaugh Seeks New Trial

A South Carolina judge on Tuesday ordered the court clerk involved in Alex Murdaugh’s double murder trial to testify in an upcoming hearing regarding jury tampering. Murdaugh’s legal team has accused Colleton County Clerk of Court Rebecca Hill of rushing jurors to reach a guilty verdict for a book she was writing and self-publishing on …

Court
January 6, 2024

New Trial for Alex Murdaugh? Hearing Set for Later This Month

A retired South Carolina chief justice will hear arguments later this month on whether the Colleton County court clerk tampered with the jury in disgraced lawyer Alex Murdaugh’s double murder trial last year. Murdaugh was convicted of the shooting deaths of his wife, Maggie, and son, Paul, and sentenced to consecutive life sentences. He has …

Court
November 9, 2023

SC Court Clerk Denies Alex Murdaugh’s Allegations That She ‘Influenced’ Jury to Vote Guilty

South Carolina’s attorney general has filed a detailed response to convicted killer Alex Murdaugh’s push for a new trial that includes an equally detailed affidavit from the court clerk Murdaugh’s attorneys accused of jury tampering. The filing notes that arguments from Dick Harpootlian and Jim Griffin — that Colleton County Court Clerk Rebecca Hill urged …

Fraud
September 21, 2023

‘I Am Guilty’: Alex Murdaugh Admits in Federal Court to Defrauding Law Firm & Clients

On Thursday, convicted double murderer Alex Murdaugh admitted in a South Carolina court to 22 federal financial crimes that date back 10 years. The State reported that Murdaugh appeared and court and confessed to stealing $9 million from his former clients and law firm. While Murdaugh only pleaded guilty to crimes that transpired between 2011 …

Fraud
September 20, 2023

Alex Murdaugh Staged Botched Suicide Because ‘They’re Going To Be Able To Prove That I’m Responsible for Maggie and Paul’

The man who allegedly helped Alex Murdaugh stage his botched 2021 suicide said Murdaugh wanted to kill himself because he knew he was a suspect in his wife and son’s murders. Curtis Smith made the revelation during “Murdaugh Murders: A Southern Scandal,” which was released on Netflix on Wednesday. Smith denied shooting Murdaugh — and …

Fraud
September 19, 2023

Alex Murdaugh Pleads Guilty to Federal Financial Crimes, Accepting Plea Deal

Convicted double murderer Alex Murdaugh pleaded guilty on Tuesday to 22 federal counts related to swindling his former clients and law firm. Greenville News reported that Murdaugh accepted a plea deal with the U.S. Department of Justice that may require him to submit to a polygraph test about criminal activity and hidden assets. In accepting …

Court
September 14, 2023

Cory Fleming Sentenced to 20 Years in Prison for His Part in Alex Murdaugh Fraud Scheme

Former attorney Cory Fleming was sentenced to 20 years in prison on Thursday for helping his longtime friend Alex Murdaugh siphon millions of dollars from Murdaugh’s clients and former law firm. Fleming is already serving 46 months in federal court on similar charges, but Judge Clifton Newman decided that wasn’t nearly enough and gave Fleming …