A popular South Carolina lawyer has actually been charged with stealing insurance settlements suggested for the kids of his late maid, state authorities stated Thursday. Alex Murdaugh was arrested at a drug rehab facility in Orlando, Florida, authorities stated. His lawyers stated he has actually invested the previous 6 weeks at the facility because declaring he was shot in the head on the side of a lonesome road near his house.
The arrest on 2 felony counts of acquiring home by incorrect pretenses includes Murdaugh’s maid for years, Gloria Satterfield, the State Police Department stated in a declaration.
Murdaugh informed Satterfield’s kids at her February 2018 funeral service that he would get insurance settlements for her death and take care of them, according to a claim submitted by the kids.
Murdaugh managed to protect more than $4 million from his insurance companies, however he just informed the kids about $500,000 and then never ever sent them a penny, the claim stated.
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The Murdaugh family informed the kids their mom tripped over the family pet and passed away weeks later on from her remaining injuries. The death was never ever reported to the Hampton County coroner, who asked state authorities to examine why she was not called to evaluate what she would think about an unintentional death.
Murdaugh is being held at the Orange County prison in Florida to wait for extradition, private investigators stated. His legal representatives guaranteed at a bond hearing on various charges last month that Murdaugh would return to South Carolina without a battle if charged with extra criminal activities.
The deaths of Murdaugh’s spouse and child at their Colleton County house in June stay unsolved. Murdaugh stated he discovered Maggie Murdaugh, 52, and her child Paul, 22, shot to death after he returned house from visiting his daddy in the hospital, according to authorities.
Murdaugh’s legal representatives, Cock Harpootlian and Jim Griffin, launched a declaration Thursday verifying the brand-new charges and stated a bond hearing was set up for Friday.
“Alex plans to totally comply with this examination, as he has with the examination into the murder of his spouse and child,” they stated. “He deeply is sorry for that his actions have actually sidetracked from the efforts to fix their murders.”
State authorities have 6 examinations into Murdaugh, consisting of the deaths and September charges versus Murdaugh on insurance scams and other counts for attempting to organize his own death so his making it through child might gather on a $10 million life insurance policy.
Murdaugh stated his head was grazed by a bullet in the effort. The guy charged with shooting at Murdaugh stated the weapon went off as he attempted to prevent his buddy from shooting himself.
Lawyers for Murdaugh stated he had actually been having a hard time with a longtime addiction to opioids and desired to end his life. In a declaration supplied to CBS News last month, lawyers Cock Harpootlian and Jim Griffin stated:
On September 4, it ended up being clear Alex thought that ending his life was his only alternative. Today, he understands that’s not real. For the last twenty years, there have actually been lots of people feeding hisaddiction to opioids Throughout that time, these people capitalized of his addiction and his capability to pay significant funds for unlawfuldrugs One of those people capitalized of his mental illness and concurred to take Alex’s life, by shooting him in the head. Thankfully, Alex was not eliminated by the gunshot injury.
The Thursday arrest is simply another action in the long process for justice in all of the examinations, State Police Department Chief Mark Keel stated in a declaration
” As I have actually stated formerly, we are devoted to following the realities any place they might lead us and we will not stop till justice is served,” Keel stated.