CHARLESTON, S.C. — For perhaps the last time, Alex Murdaugh, in a jail one-piecesuit rather of the fit he utilized to use, mixed into a courtroom Monday in South Carolina and was sentenced to 40 years in federal jail.
Murdaugh was penalized — this time in federal court — for taking from customers and his law company. The 55-year-old disbarred lawyer is currently serving a life sentence without parole in a state jail for killing his otherhalf and boy.
Federal representatives had advised a sentence from 17 1/2 to simply under 22 years.
Murdaugh likewise pleaded guilty in state court to monetary criminaloffenses and was purchased to invest 27 years in jail. The federal sentence will run at the exactsame time as his state jail term and he mostlikely will have to serve all 40 years if his murder convictions are reversed on appeal.
U.S. District Judge Richard Gergel stated he sentenced Murdaugh to a harsher penalty than recommended duetothefactthat he took from “the most clingy, susceptible individuals,” consistingof a customer who endedupbeing a quadriplegic after a crash, a state cannonfodder who was hurt on the task, and a trust fund designated for kids whose momsanddads were eliminated in a wreck.
Murdaugh took from individuals who “placed all their issues and all their hopes” on him, Gergel stated.
The 22 federal counts are the last charges exceptional for Murdaugh, who 3 years ago was an developed attorney negotiating multimillion-dollar settlements in small Hampton County, where members of his household served as chosen districtattorneys and ran the location’s leading law company for almost a century.
Murdaugh will likewise have to pay almost $9 million in restitution.
“There is a shocking human toll to every cent,” stated lawyer Justin Bamberg, who represented anumberof of Murdaugh’s victims.
Prosecutors asked the judge to offer Murdaugh