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A federal grand jury has indicted disbarred South Carolina lawyer and convicted assassin Alex Murdaugh on 22 fees in reference to schemes geared toward stealing cash from his shoppers, in response to the US Attorney’s Office for the District of South Carolina.
The fees embrace conspiracy to commit wire fraud and financial institution fraud, wire fraud, financial institution fraud and cash laundering, the workplace mentioned Wednesday in a information launch.
Murdaugh, 54, “has been cooperating with the USA Attorneys’ Workplace and federal businesses of their investigation of a broad vary of actions,” his attorneys, Dick Harpootlian and Jim Griffin, mentioned Wednesday in an announcement.
“We anticipate that the costs introduced in the present day might be shortly resolved and not using a trial,” they mentioned.
Murdaugh, a former private harm lawyer, is interesting his conviction this 12 months in South Carolina for murdering his spouse and grown son; he was sentenced to life in jail.
“Belief in our authorized system begins with belief in its attorneys,” US Legal professional Adair Boroughs mentioned of the alleged monetary crimes. “South Carolinians flip to attorneys when they’re at their most weak, and in our state, those that abuse the general public’s belief and enrich themselves by fraud, theft, and self-dealing might be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the regulation.”
