A prominent South Carolina lawyer has been charged with stealing insurance settlements meant for the sons of his late housekeeper. State police say Alex Murdaugh was arrested at a drug rehab facility in Orlando, Florida.
has been charged with stealing insurance settlements meant for the sons of his late housekeeper, state police said Thursday.
The arrest on two felony counts of obtaining property by false pretenses involves Murdaugh’s housekeeper for decades, Gloria Satterfield, the State Law Enforcement Division said in a statement.for her death and take care of them, according to a lawsuit filed by the sons.Murdaugh managed to secure more than $4 million from his insurers, but he only told the sons about $500,000 and then never sent them a dime, the lawsuit said.
Murdaugh is being held at the Orange County jail in Florida to await extradition, investigators said. His lawyers promised at a bond hearing on different charges last month that Murdaugh would return to South Carolina without a fight if charged with additional crimes. on insurance fraud and other counts for trying to arrange his own death so his surviving son could collect on a $10 million life insurance policy.
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