“Trust in our legal system begins with trust in its lawyers,” he stated in a declaration the exact same day. “South Carolinians turn to lawyers when they are at their most vulnerable, and in our state, those who abuse the public’s trust and enrich themselves by fraud, theft, and self-dealing will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.”
Murdaugh’s legal representatives, Jim Griffin and Richard “Dick” Harpootlian shared in their own declaration that their customer is completely working together with the federal examination and “anticipate that the charges brought today will be quickly resolved without a trial.”
As part of a suit implicating Murdaugh of life insurance coverage scams in Satterfield’s death, his legal representatives exposed previously this month that Murdaugh “invented the critical facts” surrounding her “trip and fall accident” in order to get countless dollars in the settlement. Nautilus InsuranceCo has actually because submitted submitted a match declaring it was defrauded, per NBC News.
“No dogs were involved in the fall of Gloria Satterfield on February 2, 2018,” the lawyer’s stated in the legal filing. The filing included that after the house cleaner’s death, Alex “invented Ms. Satterfield’s purported statement that dogs caused her to fall to force his insurers to make a settlement payment.”
