{"id":2230956,"date":"2024-04-26T13:21:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-26T17:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/alex-murdaugh-appeals-sentence-for-financial-crimes\/"},"modified":"2024-04-26T13:23:49","modified_gmt":"2024-04-26T17:23:49","slug":"alex-murdaugh-appeals-sentence-for-financial-crimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/alex-murdaugh-appeals-sentence-for-financial-crimes\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Murdaugh Appeals Conviction for Financial Offenses"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Falex-murdaugh-appeals-sentence-for-financial-crimes%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2230956&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Alex Murdaugh, convicted of murder\u2063 and\u200b financial fraud, is appealing his\u2063 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-president-trump-gives-pardons-to-73-individuals-and-commutes-another-70-sentences-steve-bannon-is-included\/\" title=\"BREAKING: President Trump Gives Pardons to 73 Individuals and Commutes Another 70 Sentences \u2013 Steve Bannon Is Included\">40-year prison sentence<\/a> for financial crimes. The appeal was filed after reaching a plea agreement with federal prosecutors. The sentence exceeded both defense \u2064and prosecution requests, emphasizing Murdaugh&#8217;s exploitation\u200b of vulnerable victims. The legal battle involved failed polygraph tests and\u200c accusations of breaching plea agreements, underscoring the complexity of the case.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p>Convicted murderer and financial fraudster Alex Murdaugh has signaled he will appeal his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/alex-murdaugh-sentenced-to-40-more-years-in-prison-for-federal-financial-crimes\/\" title=\"Alex Murdaugh receives an additional 40-year prison term for federal financial offenses\">40-year federal prison sentence<\/a> for financial crimes.<\/p>\n<p>Murdaugh filed a notice of appeal on Monday in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, Walterboro Live <a href=\"https:\/\/walterborolive.com\/stories\/murdaugh-files-appeal-of-financial-crimes,110910\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>. The sentence was handed down earlier this month after Murdaugh reached <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/alex-murdaugh-sentenced-to-40-more-years-in-prison-for-federal-financial-crimes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a plea agreement<\/a> with federal prosecutors.<\/p>\n<p>At issue is that the defense and prosecution each asked U.S. District Judge Richard Gergel for a 30-year sentence, to run concurrently with Murdaugh\u2019s 27-year sentence for state financial crime and consecutive life sentences for the murders of his wife Maggie, and youngest son, Paul.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, Gergel sentenced Murdaugh to a longer term, stating in his ruling that Murdaugh stole money from \u201cthe most needy, vulnerable people.\u201d This included a client who was left without the use of his arms or legs after a crash and a trust fund for children whose parents had been killed in a car crash.<\/p>\n<p>Murdaugh was accused of stealing millions of dollars from his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-taps-sanctuary-city-supporter-to-oversee-ice-prosecutions\/\" title=\"Biden Taps \u2018Sanctuary City\u2019 Supporter To Oversee ICE Prosecutions\">previous law firm<\/a> and its clients and, in addition to prison time, was ordered to pay more than $8 million in restitution to his victims.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrust in our legal system begins with trust in its lawyers,\u201d U.S. Attorney Adair F. Boroughs said in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-sc\/pr\/alex-murdaugh-indicted-federal-conspiracy-wire-fraud-bank-fraud-and-money-laundering\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a statement<\/a>. \u201cSouth Carolinians turn to lawyers when they are at their most vulnerable, and in our state, those who abuse the public\u2019s trust and enrich themselves by fraud, theft, and self-dealing will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The sentencing hearing almost didn\u2019t happen, as prosecutors filed a motion the week before trying to back out of their plea agreement with Murdaugh, claiming he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/alex-murdaughs-attorneys-reveal-reason-they-believe-client-failed-polygraph-test\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">failed a polygraph test<\/a> and was, therefore, lying about where the money was spent.<\/p>\n<p>The federal government based its attempt to revoke the plea agreement on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/alex-murdaughs-attorneys-reveal-reason-they-believe-client-failed-polygraph-test\/\" title=\"Alex Murdaugh's lawyers disclose why they think their client didn't pass the polygraph test\">failed polygraph test<\/a> but asked the courts not to release the results. Murdaugh\u2019s attorneys filed a motion last week opposing the federal prosecutors\u2019 request.<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-9096\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1714148549579000&#038;usg=AOvVaw057RcQatfHxkfOmabs1tZN\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo allow the Government to publicly accuse Murdaugh of breaching his plea agreement while also allowing the Government to hide all purported evidence supporting that accusation from the public would violate the public\u2019s right to the truth,\u201d Murdaugh\u2019s attorneys, Jim Griffin and Dick Harpootlian, wrote in their motion, <a href=\"https:\/\/amp.cnn.com\/cnn\/2024\/03\/28\/us\/alex-murdaugh-lie-detector-test\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to CNN<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Polygraph tests are not permitted as evidence in court because they are notoriously unreliable.<\/p>\n<p>The attorneys argued in court documents that the polygraph Murdaugh failed was not reliable because the administrator admitted to Murdaugh that he had just tested Joran van der Sloot, who admitted to killing Natalee Holloway in Aruba in 2005.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are legitimate questions as to whether the Government intentionally manipulated the results to void the plea agreement and achieve the prosecutors\u2019 stated desire to \u2018ensure that he\u2019s never a free man again,\u2019\u201d\u00a0the attorneys wrote, <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/alex-murdaugh-fbi-plea-deal-sentencing-6160a341f0adc6e3e17cf996bb1a8bce\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to the Associated Press<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Murdaugh <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/alex-murdaugh-sentenced-to-27-years-for-financial-crimes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">admitted<\/a> to stealing around $12 million from clients over the years after promising to help them with medical bills or pain and suffering. One victim, Jordan Jinks, had been a friend of Murdaugh\u2019s since they were children. He asked Murdaugh to represent him after he incurred hundreds of thousands of dollars in medical bills for a neck injury resulting from someone rear-ending his car.<\/p>\n<p>Jinks paid the bills, assured that Murdaugh would obtain a settlement to refund him. When Murdaugh received that settlement, he kept the money for himself.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe money you stole from me, I would have gave it to you,\u201d Jinks said during Murdaugh\u2019s sentencing. \u201cWhy bro? Why?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While taking responsibility for the financial crimes, Murdaugh adamantly denies killing his wife and son.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to take responsibility. I want my son to see me take responsibility. It\u2019s my hope that by taking responsibility that the people I\u2019ve hurt can begin to heal,\u201d Murdaugh said when pleading guilty in September.<\/p>\n<p>Harpootlian, his defense attorney, noted at the time: \u201cThere\u2019s two things Alex will tell you. One, he stole the money. Two, he did not kill Maggie and Paul.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Murdaugh, convicted of murder and financial fraud, plans to appeal his 40-year prison term for financial offenses. He filed the appeal notice in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, as reported by Walterboro Live. The sentence followed a plea deal reached earlier this month<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":2230957,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/04\/GettyImages-2147888813.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2230956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/04\/GettyImages-2147888813.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2230956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2230956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2230956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2230957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2230956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2230956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2230956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}