Disgraced South Carolina lawyer Alex Murdaugh was hit with new tax evasion expenses – about 5 weeks earlier than he’s slated to go to trial for the alleged murders of his son and spouse.
South Carolina Lawyer Common Alan Wilson introduced Friday the recent indictment accusing Murdaugh of 9 counts of tax evasion for failing to report $6,954,639 of illegally earned earnings between 2011 and 2019.
He allegedly did not cough up $486,819 in taxes to the state for the allegedly ill-gotten positive factors. The fees carry as much as 5 years in jail and a superb of as much as $10,000 plus the price of prosecution.
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From left, Buster Murdaugh, 26, his mom Maggie Murdaugh, his brother Paul Murdaugh and his father Alex Murdaugh. Alex is accused of fatally capturing Maggie, 52, and their son, Paul, 22, June 7, 2021.
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The most recent counts are modest additions to the 90 monetary crimes expenses Murdaugh already faces from 18 different indictments, in line with the lawyer common.
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Murdaugh, 54, stands accused of schemes to defraud victims out of $8,789,447.77.
Nonetheless, the fallen scion of a as soon as highly effective authorized dynasty is headed to trial Jan. 23 within the Colleton County Courthouse, the place a portrait of his grandfather hangs on the wall, on his most essential case.
Alex Murdaugh sits in courtroom along with his authorized staff, together with lawyer Margaret Fox throughout a judicial listening to earlier than Decide Clifton Newman within the Colleton County Courthouse on Monday, Aug. 29, 2022.
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Prosecutors say he gunned down his 22-year-old son, Paul Murdaugh, and his 52-year-old spouse, Maggie Murdaugh, June 7, 2021, close to the canine kennels on the household’s property.
In a movement filed earlier this month, state prosecutors prompt that the household patriarch shot his son and spouse over mounting money owed and worry his decades-long corruption schemes could be uncovered.
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The unraveling of the Murdaugh dynasty started in 2019, when Paul Murdaugh drunkenly crashed his father’s boat right into a bridge, killing his good friend Mallory Seashore and injuring 4 others.
Clockwise from left Anthony Cook dinner, Connor, Cook dinner, Miley Altman and Mallory Seashore. The chums have been in boat with a drunken Paul Murdaugh when it crashed right into a bridge killing Seashore and injuring the opposite three.
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The accident triggered a sequence of lawsuits in opposition to the household and introduced scrutiny on Alex Murdaugh’s suspect enterprise practices.
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His lawyer, Jim Griffin, didn’t instantly return a request for remark. Murdaugh has pleaded not responsible within the murders.
