Murdaugh housekeeper's heirs were never paid millions after she died from fall, lawyer says
The children of a longtime Murdaugh family housekeeper who died in 2018 following what has been described as a "trip and fall accident" are entitled to at least five times what their attorneys initially believed they were owed as part of a wrongful death settlement but were never paid.
As beneficiaries, they should have received over $2.7 million in life insurance proceeds, according to a previously undisclosed order. Details of the financial arrangement, which were provided to NBC News and first reported by The State, have been shared with South Carolina authorities, Eric Bland, an attorney for the heirs, said Wednesday.
The South Carolina Law Enforcement Division opened a criminal probe a week ago into the death of housekeeper Gloria Satterfield as part of a wider investigation into Alex Murdaugh, the embattled personal injury attorney under scrutiny after he was accused of trying to stage his own death over Labor Day weekend in a life insurance scheme, and allegedly stole money from his family's law firm to feed a 20-year opioid addiction.
"In my 33 years of being a lawyer, I've never seen a larger breach of trust, a more concerted effort by lawyers and individuals involved to enrich one person — a powerful person — at an expense of needy clients who are owed fiduciary duties," Bland said.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/murdaugh-housekeeper-s-heirs-were-never-paid-millions-after-she-n1279855
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More Murdaugh murk. Ain't he a peach?
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even ours. 