A slew of new charges over alleged financial crimes have been filed against the South Carolina attorney who allegedly arranged for a former client to kill him so that his son could collect a life insurance payout.
Seven new indictments with 21 criminal charges have been filed against Murdaugh, South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson announced Thursday. The Murdaugh family saga: a tangled web of secrets and murderThe once-prominent attorney, in custody in Columbia for other charges, and has faced increased scrutiny since the renewed attention on the unsolved fatal shootings of his wife and other son in June and the opening of an investigation in September into the 2018 death of his housekeeper.
All the charges stem from an alleged wide-ranging scheme that sought to defrauded victims of more than $6 million. CNN reached out Thursday to Murdaugh's attorney.Attorney Alex Murdaugh indicted on two dozen financial crimesMurdaugh is currently in jail on charges of conspiracy to commit insurance fraud, accused of misappropriating millions of dollars in funds meant for the family of his longtime housekeeper who died in an accident at the Murdaugh home in 2018.
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