Alex Murdaugh Pleads Guilty To Crimes Regarding Money

The plea is related to a scheme in which Murdaugh and a bank employee allegedly defrauded his personal injury clients and laundered over $7 million of funds according to the indictment.

For the very first time, Alex Murdaugh has pleaded guilty to crimes.

On Thursday, the disbarred former South Carolina attorney pleaded guilty to nearly two dozen fraud and money laundering charges in a federal courtroom. The plea is related to a scheme in which Murdaugh and a bank employee allegedly defrauded his personal injury clients and laundered over $7 million of funds according to the indictment.

Murdaugh was accused of using the settlement funds for his personal benefit. He pleaded guilty as part of a plea agreement in which government attorneys agreed to recommend to the court that any federal sentence he receives for these charges “be served concurrent to any state sentence served for the same conduct”. However, the agreement does not state a recommended sentence in it.