Murderer Alex Murdaugh faces new indictments for tax evasion as he serves out two life sentences for killing his wife Maggie and son Paul
- Alex Murdaugh was indicted for tax evasion, the latest of at least 99 counts for financial crimes he faces over 19 indictments
- Murdaugh was previously indicted for failing to declare about $7million in income between 2011 and 2019
- He was sentenced to life in prison for killing his wife, Maggie, and child, Paul
Killer Alex Murdaugh was indicted for tax evasion on Monday, the latest in a litany of financial crimes he faces after being sentenced to life in prison for the murders of his wife and son.
Murdaugh, 54, faces at least 99 financial crimes in 19 different indictments stemming from millions he allegedly stole from his law firm and clients to fuel his opioid addiction.
The disgraced legal scion was previously indicted for tax evasion over $7million ‘earned through illegal acts’ he failed to disclose between 2011 and 2019
It is believed the latest indictment is related to financial crimes committed by Murdaugh between 2020 and 2021, according to FitsNews. The charges have not been publicly announced.
Murdaugh was handed two consecutive life sentences in March for the 2021 murders of his family members. He is currently living in an isolated unit to protect him from other inmates.
Alex Murdaugh during his sentencing on March 3 for the murder of his wife and son
Alex Murdaugh pictured on March 7 as he was transferred to prison in South Carolina
The murders of Paul and Maggie Murdaugh came after Paul was accused of crashing a boat and killing a co-ed
In the coming months, Murdaugh is expected to go to trial for his many financial crimes.
Sources told FitsNews the latest indictments were based on the ‘two years we were waiting to get more information on,’ suggesting the financial crimes covered recent years.
Questions still loom over how authorities will handle the myriad of crimes he is accused of – many of which he admitted to while under oath during his double murder trial.
As he took to the stand over the double homicide case, he admitted: ‘What I can tell you is that in all of these financial situations, I stole money that was not my money, I misled people I shouldn’t have misled, and I did wrong. I can tell you that.’
He told the court he stole as much as $10 million from clients in a bid to fund his opioid addiction which saw him take more than 60 oxycodone pills a day.
He is reported to have evaded less than half a million dollars in taxes as well as stealing settlement money from extremely ill, vulnerable and bereaved clients and families – including a quadriplegic client who was swindled out of $1million.
He now faces up to 700 years in prison if found guilty on all fronts, according to calculations by legal magazine Law & Crime.
Money laundering an amount exceeding $100,000 – of which Murdaugh has been charged with on at least 11 occasions – carries a potential 20-year sentence.
He’s also accused of two lesser money laundering charges which carry a maximum sentence of five years.
Murdaugh with his wife Maggie, and son Paul. He murdered them both in 2021 at the family’s property
Additionally, he stands accused of at least 20 different financial crimes, which could each see him jailed for up to 10 years. The accumulated maximum penalty for those allegations totals over 200 years.
His remaining charges carry at the least a combined maximum penalty of 310 years, claims Law & Crime. In total, Murdaugh could be indicted to 740 years in a South Carolina correctional facility.
Other scandals discussed in the trial include a 2019 boat crash involving his late son Paul which killed 19-year-old Mallory Beach.
Paul was facing criminal charges after being accused of driving the boat while drunk before he was shot dead. The girl’s family sued the Murdaughs for a reported $30million at the time of Paul and Maggie’s murders.
The death of his housekeeper Gloria Satterfield – who the Murdaugh family claimed tripped over the dogs and fell down the stairs while working at their hunting lodge – was also raised during the case. Her son Tony called to give testimony on the stand about the $4 million wrongful death payout Murdaugh allegedly stole.
Murdaugh is also facing separate charges in connection to a September 2021 botched suicide attempt designed to gift his only surviving son, Buster, a $12 million insurance payout.
