S3E4: Murdaugh gets 40 years in federal fraud case
The Murdaugh Murders, Money & Mystery | Criminally Obsessed
Anne Emerson, Charlie Condon, Drew Tripp, Daniel Michener, Maxwell Harrison
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 10 April 2024
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Former attorney Alex Murdaugh received a 40-year prison sentence in federal court for his financial crimes.
United States District Judge Richard M. Gergel handed down the sentence on April 1 at the United States District Courthouse in Charleston.
In this latest episode, Anne Emerson, Drew Tripp, and Charlie Condon discuss new information learned from the federal sentencing, which includes $6 million in missing money, 11 new unknown victims, and an alleged unnamed codefendant to Murdaugh's crimes.
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| 0:00.0 | What say you Richard Hillen-Redock, are you guilty or not guilty of your felonies? |
| 0:06.7 | Wherein do you stand and die? |
| 0:08.8 | Not guilty. |
| 0:09.8 | How shall you be tried? |
| 0:11.2 | By God, in my country. The exact time when Paul and |
| 0:14.6 | Maggie Murdoch were murdered. |
| 0:16.3 | The end of the investigation, it was obvious. |
| 0:19.2 | I'm not here to work with him. |
| 0:21.5 | Okay. And the whole point is to have this not fall into the long hands. |
| 0:25.0 | This case is unique, it's unprecedented in South Carolina history. We were grateful for that sentence as Emily Lime House pointed out in courtroom, the judge is allowed to stack sentences. |
| 0:45.0 | It's not particularly common, but we do think it was warranted in this case. |
| 0:48.0 | He stated his reasons in open court, which is really hard to disagree with. |
| 0:53.3 | How much of that 40 years will he have to do? |
| 0:56.6 | I don't know for sure. |
| 0:58.3 | If he'll do any in federal court, |
| 1:00.1 | it all depends on what happens to the murder convictions, obviously. |
| 1:03.2 | Welcome to Unsolved South Carolina, the Murdoch's, Murders, Money, and Mystery. the The the And so, Oh, fear that one day that Alec Murdoch could get out because these convictions could get ever turned. |
| 2:15.8 | And when I say fear that's coming of course from the prosecution, |
| 2:19.8 | not from his side of the table. |
| 2:23.0 | So what did you think, Charlie, at this federal sentencing, was it what you were expecting? |
| 2:30.0 | Yes and no. |
| 2:32.0 | I mean, yes in terms of I set the stage what was at stake but I did not expect |
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