![]() Directing other attorneys with whom he was associated on client matters to disburse attorney’s fees directly to him, rather than appropriately routing the fees through the law firm and.Creating fraudulent “expenses” that were never incurred on client matters and directing the disbursement of settlement funds to pay the cited costs, including claimed medical expenses, construction expenses and airline expenses. ![]() Claiming and collecting attorney’s fees on fake or nonexistent annuities.Claiming funds held in the law firm’s trust account as attorney’s fees and directing the disbursement of those funds for his benefit.Drafting, or directing law firm employees to draft, disbursement sheets to send settlement funds to Murdaugh’s accounts without proper disclosure or client or law firm approval.Court documents allege the first scheme involved the following parts: As part of the scheme, Murdaugh routed and redirected clients’ settlement funds to personally enrich himself. In the first scheme, the indictment alleges, Murdaugh devised a scheme to defraud and obtain money by means of false pretenses from at least September 2005 to September 2021. The indictment alleges that Murdaugh, who was a personal injury attorney at a law firm in Hampton, engaged in three different schemes to obtain money and property from his personal injury clients, a release from the U.S. We remain committed to doing our part to further that effort in the federal system.” We are grateful to the FBI for their tireless work on this case and to the South Carolina Attorney General’s Office and the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division for their work to hold Alex Murdaugh, and those who enabled him, accountable in our state system. “South Carolinians turn to lawyers when they are at their most vulnerable, and in our state, those who abuse the public’s trust and enrich themselves by fraud, theft, and self-dealing will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. “Trust in our legal system begins with trust in its lawyers,” U.S. He is currently serving prison time for the June 2021 shooting deaths of his wife, 52-year-old Maggie Murdaugh and their son, 22-year-old Paul Murdaugh. Murdaugh, 54, is charged with one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and bank fraud, one count of bank fraud, a total of five counts of wire fraud, one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and 14 counts of money laundering. Department of Justice said a federal grand jury has indicted disbarred Lowcountry attorney Alex Murdaugh on nearly two dozen new charges.
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