South Carolina lawyer Alex Murdaugh paid an ex-client more than $155,000 from a fake account in the months leading up to the unsolved murders of his son and wife, according to recently-obtained bank checks and documents. Murdaugh, 53, is facing criminal charges for hiring his former client, Curtis Smith, 61, to fatally shoot him in …
On Tuesday, a South Carolina judge denied bail for legal scion Alex Murdaugh after finding him a danger to himself and others. Judge Clifton Newman’s decision means Murdaugh, 53, will remain at Richland County jail until trial. Newman initially denied Murdaugh’s request for bail on October 19, citing concerns regarding the lawyer’s opioid addiction and …
The president of Murdaugh’s former law firm is also seeking repayment of hundreds of thousands of dollars in personal loans he says he made to the embattled South Carolina legal scion.
Alex Murdaugh’s former law firm has reached a settlement with the estate of his former family housekeeper, Gloria Satterfield. Satterfield reportedly died in a “trip and fall” accident at the Murdaugh’s home in 2018, as CrimeOnline previously reported. Murdaugh persuaded her sons to hire his friend Cory Fleming to represent them in a wrongful death …
South Carolina lawyer Alex Murdaugh was denied bond on Tuesday, amid allegations that he misappropriated settlement funds related to the 2018 death of his longtime housekeeper. According to the Island Packet, Judge Clifton Newman also ordered Murdaugh, 53, to undergo a psychiatric evaluation as a condition of another bond hearing, which will be determined at a …
Embattled South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh waived extradition in Florida on Friday and will be returned to his home state to face charges related to millions in missing insurance money owed to the heirs of his former housekeeper’s estate. Murdaugh, whose law license was suspended by the South Carolina Supreme Court following allegations that he …
A lawyer for Alex Murdaugh appeared on “Good Morning America” Friday to insist that his client had nothing to do with the murder of his wife and son, while criticizing what he said were false rumors about the dramatic, complicated criminal web surrounding the prominent South Carolina legal family. Murdaugh’s attorney Dick Harpootlian was on …
‘If I’d have shot him, he’d be dead.’
The South Carolina Supreme Court on Friday suspended the law license of Alex Murdaugh’s best friend and college roommate, Cory Fleming, the attorney who earlier this week reached a settlement with the estate of Gloria Satterfield, the Murdaugh family housekeeper who died at their property three years ago. Fleming, who negotiated the initial wrongful death …
The estate of former Murdaugh family housekeeper Gloria Satterfield has reached a settlement agreement with the lawyer and insurance company who negotiated a wrongful death suit with Alex Murdaugh on behalf of Satterfield’s children. Eric Bland, the estate’s attorney, said the settlement was reached on Friday with attorney Cory Fleming and the insurance carrier involved …
Maggie Murdaugh, the slain wife of embattled South Carolina legal scion Alex Murdaugh, saw a divorce lawyer in April, just six weeks before she and her son Paul where gunned down on a family estate. The June 7 murders rocketed the family into national headlines, continuing through Alex Murdaugh’s alleged “suicide for hire” scheme in …
The sons of a housekeeper who died on Alex Murdaugh’s property in 2018 asked a South Carolina court on Monday to jail the disgraced lawyer until he returns the millions of dollars he allegedly embezzled from them in an insurance scam. Eric Bland, a lawyer for Gloria Satterfield’s sons, Tony Satterfield and Brian Harriott, filed …
