Alex Murdaugh Charged Over Missing $4.3M Insurance Money From Dead Housekeeper

Alex Murdaugh has been arrested and charged for allegedly misappropriating insurance money that was meant for the family of his dead housekeeper.

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Alex Murdaugh has found himself at the center of yet another criminal case.

The Daily Beast reports that the South Carolina lawyer is facing charges for “misappropriated settlement funds” numbering in the millions in connection to the death of Gloria Satterfield, his ex-housekeeper.

He’s now been hit with two counts of obtaining property by false pretenses and is set to appear in court on Friday. “He deeply regrets that his actions have distracted from the efforts to solve their murders,” his attorneys, Dick Harpootlian and Jim Griffin said, referencing the June murders of his wife and son. The lawyers also revealed that Murdaugh is cooperating with authorities investigating Satterfield’s death.

Eric Bland, the attorney for the housekeeper’s two sons, told the outlet that Murdaugh’s arrest is “bittersweet” for the men.

The two sons’ lawsuit claims that when the housekeeper died at Murdaugh’s home in 2018, she was supposed to get at least $4.3 million in a settlement from his insurance company. However, Tony Satterfield and Brian Harriot haven’t seen any of that money, and have since alleged that Murdaugh redirected the money to a fake bank account. The South Carolina Law Enforcement Division opened its probe into Satterfield’s death last month, which was first said to be a “trip and fall accident.”

“Since early September the families are dealing with the betrayal of trust and that their loved one’s death was used as a vehicle to enrich others over the clients,” Bland said on Thursday.

News of Murdaugh’s arrest follows the investigation into the shooting deaths of his wife Margaret and 22-year-old son Paul back in June. It also comes after Murdaugh made headlines for surviving a roadside shooting in September, and later divulging that he hired a hitman to kill him so he could leave a $10 million life insurance policy to his remaining son, Buster.

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