A South Carolina federal pass judgement on has ordered disgraced felony scion Alex Murdaugh and his associate to pay hundreds of thousands to an insurance coverage corporate when they conspired to thieve about $4 million in insurance coverage price range from his housekeeper’s circle of relatives following her loss of life.
The pass judgement on ordered Murdaugh to pay $14.8 million and Murdaugh’s longtime good friend and fellow legal professional, Cory Fleming, to pay just about $3.8 million within the federal civil case in opposition to Fleming.
Fleming stood trial for 2 days in Charleston earlier than U.S. District Pass judgement on Richard Mark Gergel passed down the agreement order.
“Fleming’s unfair and misleading acts performed a vital function in Murdaugh’s skill to in the long run thieve over $4 million in agreement price range,” Gergel wrote partly within the agreement order filed on Jan. 9.
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Alex Murdaugh was once sentenced to 2 consecutive double lifestyles sentences for the murders of Maggie and Paul Murdaugh, his spouse and son. (South Carolina Division of Corrections)
Murdaugh’s housekeeper, Gloria Satterfield, it sounds as if tripped and fell at the entrance steps on the Murdaughs’ house on their South Carolina looking property, Moselle, and died later in a sanatorium.
Murdaugh satisfied her sons to sue his insurance coverage corporate, Nautilus, which awarded them greater than $4 million – maximum of which Murdaugh stole, consistent with courtroom paperwork.
Murdaugh said “that he ‘invented a tale about his canine inflicting the loss of life of Gloria Satterfield to create his personal legal responsibility to the Satterfield beneficiaries’ to supply a fee from his insurance coverage carriers which he meant to, and did actually, thieve,” Gergel wrote in his Jan. 2 order.Â
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Former legal professional Cory Fleming in state courtroom on Aug. 23, 2023. (The State)
Gergel famous that the “access of judgment in opposition to Defendant Murdaugh does now not affect the claims Plaintiff has in opposition to the remainder Defendants, Cory Fleming and Moss & Kuhn, P.A.”
Charging paperwork filed in opposition to Fleming allege that the legal professional labored with Murdaugh to deposit solid agreement tests right into a fraudulent checking account it sounds as if named after an insurance coverage advisory corporate.
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The Murdaugh circle of relatives stated their housekeeper, Gloria Satterfield, fell at the entrance porch steps at their South Carolina looking property in 2018. She died within the sanatorium. (Eric Bland)
Fleming argued that he does now not owe anything else to Murdaugh’s former insurance coverage corporate, Nautilus, within the federal civil go well with.
“The Courtroom reveals that Defendant Fleming dedicated a ‘willful or understanding violation’ of [the South Carolina Unfair Trade Practices Act] and hereby trebles Plaintiff’s damages, leading to an award of $3,750,000.00.”
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Michael Tony Satterfield, son of Gloria Satterfield, issues out Alex Murdaugh all through Murdaugh’s double homicide trial on the Colleton County Courthouse in Walterboro, South Carolina, Feb. 3, 2023. (Sam Wolfe/The State, Pool)
The federal jury additionally awarded a complete of $1.25 million in damages to Nautilus, Gergel wrote in a Jan. 9 submitting.Â
“Plaintiff established at trial that Defendant Cory Fleming dedicated a couple of acts of unfair and misleading practices in his dealing with as an legal professional of the wrongful loss of life and survival claims of the Gloria Satterfield Property,” Gergel wrote. “Those come with a couple of unethical communications, because the plaintiff’s legal professional, with a possible defendant within the case, Richard Alexander Murdaugh, regardless of the truth Murdaugh was once represented by way of suggest.”
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Alex Murdaugh cries whilst taking note of testimony all through his double homicide trial on the Colleton County Courthouse on Feb. 27, 2023. (Jeff Blake/The State/Pool)
“Additional, Fleming made false representations to opposing suggest and the surplus provider relating to alleged communications with one of the most beneficiaries of the Satterfield Property and with a possible issuer of a structured agreement,” Gergel endured.
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The $4 million Murdaugh stole from the Satterfield circle of relatives is a part of the 100 monetary crimes fees filed in opposition to Murdaugh involving hundreds of thousands in stolen price range from his former legislation company shoppers.
A photograph of the Murdaugh circle of relatives taken days earlier than Paul and Maggie Murdaugh have been shot to loss of life. From left, Buster, Paul, Maggie and Alex Murdaugh. (Protection show off)
Murdaugh had prior to now been ordered to serve 40 years for his monetary crimes in federal courtroom and 27 years for his monetary crimes in state courtroom.
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The ones sentences got here on best of his lifestyles sentence for killing his spouse, Maggie, and youngest son, Paul, in 2021.Â
A Colleton County jury discovered the disgraced legal professional responsible of taking pictures Maggie and Paul close to canine kennels at the circle of relatives’s looking property in June of that yr. Prosecutors say he was once looking to create a distraction from his mounting monetary crimes, which have been starting to come to mild round that point.Â
