Murdaugh Assets Frozen in Fresh Disgrace for Elite Family

Alex Murdaugh, the embattled South Carolina lawyer going through a wild array of criminal charges, can have all his money and property frozen and managed by court-appointed overseers amid allegations he has been hiding his money, a choose dominated Tuesday.

“After cautious consideration, Plaintiff’s Movement for Momentary Injunction and Appointment of Co-Receivers and Co-Receivers’ Counsel is granted,” Chesterfield County Choose Dan Corridor said in a two-sentence order.

The choice comes simply days after Corridor heard arguments from three attorneys who claimed Murdaugh, 53, was making an attempt to hide hundreds of thousands that might doubtlessly be on account of their purchasers, who’ve pending lawsuits in opposition to the once-untouchable scion.

It’s the newest authorized blow in opposition to Murdaugh, who’s presently being held at Richland County Detention Heart on expenses stemming from an alleged scheme to steal hundreds of thousands from the household of his former housekeeper, Gloria Satterfield. The 53-year-old can be going through expenses over an alleged insurance coverage plot centering on a scheme to orchestrate his personal dying, and has been implicated in a collection of lawsuits, together with allegations he used a faux checking account to funnel hundreds of thousands from his former legislation agency and purchasers.

The identical account was allegedly used to divert the funds from the Satterfield wrongful dying settlement.

In a Monday submitting, an lawyer harassed that Murdaugh’s personal legal professionals have argued he’s broke—and famous that the scion’s personal brother and former enterprise companion have filed complaints looking for cash from him.

“If he doesn’t have the cash, what could be the hurt in stopping him from spending it?” Mark Tinsley, who’s representing the household of a Mallory Seaside, a 19-year-old killed in a 2019 crash involving a ship allegedly piloted by Alex Murdaugh’s late son Paul, mentioned throughout a listening to final week on the household property.

The embattled patriarch found his spouse, Maggie—and Paul—fatally shot at a household property in June, launching just about non-step media scrutiny ever since.

Tinsley’s arguments reiterated statements made in three motions filed by separate attorneys earlier this month, who all maintained Murdaugh was hiding cash by shifting it between a number of unknown accounts. The filings additionally argued that Murdaugh could have been promoting off his property for capital—together with a Grady White boat named ‘Bad Boys’—and had turned over all his affairs over to his surviving son, Buster.

“The Seaside household is happy with the court docket’s ruling and is hopeful that the receivers can start the method of unraveling the mess created by Murdaugh,” Tinsley mentioned in a Tuesday assertion about Corridor’s choice.

Along with Tinsley, Joe McCulloch—the lawyer for one of many youngsters aboard the boat in the course of the crash who alleges Murdaugh tried to scapegoat him for the incident—and Eric Bland—who represents the Satterfield household—additionally filed motions to safe Murdaugh’s property.

“You might be seeing our justice system act in a approach it’s designed to behave, to guard victims and individuals who have been defrauded,” Bland mentioned on Tuesday to The Island Packet. “Our courts have seen that Alex Murdaugh is a harmful individual with a gun, and now it’s seen that he’s equally harmful with the pen.”

Randolph Murdaugh IV, in a complaint filed Thursday in Hampton County Court and first reported by The Daily Beast, alleges that two days earlier than his youthful brother tried to orchestrate his personal homicide, he allegedly borrowed $75,000 from him “to cowl an overdrawn checking account.” On the time, nevertheless, Alex Murdaugh allegedly did not disclose he was in “poor monetary situation” extra typically.

Days later, the grievance acknowledged, Randolph transported his brother Alex to rehab for his decades-long opioid dependancy—and paid his $15,000 tab.

In an Oct. 29 filing, Alex Murdaugh copped to owing his brother upwards of $90,000—stating that he’s “justly and actually indebted” to Randolph Murdaugh IV.