Alex Murdaugh slapped with 22 new fraud charges over housekeeper Gloria Satterfield’s death
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May 24, 2023 4:20pm
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Convicted double murderer Alex Murdaugh was indicted on 22 financial fraud-related charges Wednesday, including cheating his late housekeeper’s estate and insurance providers out of nearly $3.5 million.
The former South Carolina legal scion, 54, allegedly conspired with another attorney to steal ill-gotten settlement funds in the death of longtime housekeeper Gloria Satterfield, 57, the US Attorney’s Office in South Carolina said.
Murdaugh — found guilty in March of the 2021 murder of his wife and son — is accused of directing personal injury attorney Cory Fleming to draft checks totaling almost $3.5 million meant for Satterfield’s estate to his own personal bank account following her 2018 death.
The crime left Satterfield’s sons high-and-dry after their mother’s death, which had been attributed as a “trip and fall accident,” at the family’s South Carolina home.
Murdaugh then orchestrated a scheme whereby he got Satterfield’s grieving children to sue him so he could claim on his house insurance, purchased just months before the housekeeper’s death.
He represented the children in the case, but wrongly claimed a settlement was never reached and stole the payments without their knowledge.
Alex Murdaugh slapped with 22 new fraud charges over housekeeper Gloria Satterfield’s death
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May 24, 2023 4:20pm
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Convicted double murderer Alex Murdaugh was indicted on 22 financial fraud-related charges Wednesday, including cheating his late housekeeper’s estate and insurance providers out of nearly $3.5 million.
The former South Carolina legal scion, 54, allegedly conspired with another attorney to steal ill-gotten settlement funds in the death of longtime housekeeper Gloria Satterfield, 57, the US Attorney’s Office in South Carolina said.
Murdaugh — found guilty in March of the 2021 murder of his wife and son — is accused of directing personal injury attorney Cory Fleming to draft checks totaling almost $3.5 million meant for Satterfield’s estate to his own personal bank account following her 2018 death.
The crime left Satterfield’s sons high-and-dry after their mother’s death, which had been attributed as a “trip and fall accident,” at the family’s South Carolina home.
Murdaugh then orchestrated a scheme whereby he got Satterfield’s grieving children to sue him so he could claim on his house insurance, purchased just months before the housekeeper’s death.
He represented the children in the case, but wrongly claimed a settlement was never reached and stole the payments without their knowledge.
