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Murdaugh scammed dead maid’s kin: cops

Patrick Reilly

Alex Murdaugh plotted to sue himself with the family of his longtime housekeeper who died under mysterious circumstances in Murdaugh’s home, then stiffed them when he got a huge insurance payout, according to an arrest warrant.

The embattled member of an influential South Carolina legal dynasty promised the family funds for funeral expenses and compensation for her children in a $4.3 million insurance settlement that he ultimately stole for himself, the warrant claims.

Murdaugh was arrested Thursday on two felony counts of obtaining property by false pretenses relating to the 2018 death of maid Gloria Satterfield.

He verbally promised her family they would be financially taken care of before he conspired with another attorney “to deprive the Satterfield family of insurance settlements owed to them by converting [the money] to Mr. Murdaugh’s own use,” says an affidavit from a South Carolina Law Enforcement Division agent included with the arrest warrant.

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