SC - Paul Murdaugh, 22 and mom Margaret, 52, found shot to death, Islandton, 7 June 2021 #10

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Hazelnutty said:
I agree! That look on his face is kinda scary. ...Like when a really, really angry person is putting on a fake smile?

Before the arrests, disclosures & all, he kinda just looked like a big doofus. Not so much now.
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I don't know, that striped shirt with it's little collar and all buttoned up though, lol.
 
Gardenista said:
Palmetto State Bank says it had no involvement in alleged Murdaugh settlement scheme
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The article is behind a paywall so I can only read the first paragraph. The bank is responsible for the actions of all their employees. That is why each employee is required to have bond insurance. They might be able to claim they had no knowledge of wrong doing on behalf of their employee, but they are on the hook financially. Imo, the bank will take the biggest hit here. And they should. What is insane is that this banker did what he did for 30k. That's not enough to risk your career and go to jail over.

All moo.
 
According to Bland, Westendorf didn’t file a single document on the settlement (beyond the initial petition) during his tenure as a personal representative, yet he collected $30,000 for his role. He finally stepped down as personal representative weeks after Bland and Richter filed a lawsuit against him and others for the scheme.

“It’s highway robbery,” Bland said of the $30,000 Westendorf collected. “He didn’t do anything. He didn’t file anything. He didn’t manage any money. Nothing.”

Last week, Westendorf mailed Bland a $30,000 check to pay the estate back for the money he took. Bland said he was dismissed from the lawsuit because he already got what he needed from him.

Murdaugh Murders Saga: Attorneys Target Bank For Botched $4.3 Million Settlement

On October 1, the same day Fleming and his law firm settled with the Satterfield estate, Westendorf signed a statement that said he asked his boss Russell Laffitte, CEO of Palmetto State Bank, if Westendorf could serve as personal representative of Satterfield’s estate.

According to the signed statement, Laffitte told him it would be OK to serve as personal representative.

“He served up the bank to me on a Thanksgiving Day platter,” Bland said.

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Hand written letter is unusual to me.

Eta and why would AM be asking him and not Fleming?
 
Elley Mae said:
According to Bland, Westendorf didn’t file a single document on the settlement (beyond the initial petition) during his tenure as a personal representative, yet he collected $30,000 for his role. He finally stepped down as personal representative weeks after Bland and Richter filed a lawsuit against him and others for the scheme.

“It’s highway robbery,” Bland said of the $30,000 Westendorf collected. “He didn’t do anything. He didn’t file anything. He didn’t manage any money. Nothing.”

Last week, Westendorf mailed Bland a $30,000 check to pay the estate back for the money he took. Bland said he was dismissed from the lawsuit because he already got what he needed from him.

Murdaugh Murders Saga: Attorneys Target Bank For Botched $4.3 Million Settlement

On October 1, the same day Fleming and his law firm settled with the Satterfield estate, Westendorf signed a statement that said he asked his boss Russell Laffitte, CEO of Palmetto State Bank, if Westendorf could serve as personal representative of Satterfield’s estate.

According to the signed statement, Laffitte told him it would be OK to serve as personal representative.

“He served up the bank to me on a Thanksgiving Day platter,” Bland said.

....

Hand written letter is unusual to me.

Eta and why would AM be asking him and not Fleming?
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Wild.
Robbers should be able to just return what they steal if they get caught and be off the hook.
 
Lux et Veritas said:
1) Fascinating, all the doctors' / nurses' / paramedics' names are redacted. Why?

2) Why wasn't the drug test done on Sept 4 instead of the 5th?

3) Why was he given Keppra, an epilepsy drug? One of the possible adverse side effects of Keppra is suicidal thoughts or behavior.

4) AM still gets privileged treatment. Have many of you hide behind a code name like "Buffalo Indonesia" when you're admitted to a hospital? And why the secrecy?

5) Well, of course he had barbiturates and opiates in his system. He had to establish his "addiction". How easy to take those drugs for the first time the same day you're "suicidal" and get "shot".

I still ain't buying this crap.
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I respectfully disagree on much of this.

1- I don't find it odd at all. Can you imagine the field day the media would have on an active investigation

2- This too I don't find odd at all. I've had people I know taken via ambulance for OD, car accidents, etc...and didn't always get same day testing for a variety of reasons

3- I'm not a medical professional so I'll reserve judgement but my assumption is that the person that called for it is qualified to make that decision. Not familiar with Keppra but my first guess would be that it's used for detox. The dangers of detox are incredible and must be done safely

4- While unusual for the general public, I don't think it's totally unheard of given the high profile.

5- I personally disagree with this the most. There is nothing to suggest he did this for the first time to establish his addition. I personally think his addiction is going to paint a bigger picture of what, when and why. Whether that included murdering his own wife and child remains to be seen.

None of the crimes or actions are uncommon with a junkie. It's simply on a larger scale.

I could be wrong on all 5 but just my take
 
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Elley Mae said:
According to Bland, Westendorf didn’t file a single document on the settlement (beyond the initial petition) during his tenure as a personal representative, yet he collected $30,000 for his role. He finally stepped down as personal representative weeks after Bland and Richter filed a lawsuit against him and others for the scheme.

“It’s highway robbery,” Bland said of the $30,000 Westendorf collected. “He didn’t do anything. He didn’t file anything. He didn’t manage any money. Nothing.”

Last week, Westendorf mailed Bland a $30,000 check to pay the estate back for the money he took. Bland said he was dismissed from the lawsuit because he already got what he needed from him.

Murdaugh Murders Saga: Attorneys Target Bank For Botched $4.3 Million Settlement

On October 1, the same day Fleming and his law firm settled with the Satterfield estate, Westendorf signed a statement that said he asked his boss Russell Laffitte, CEO of Palmetto State Bank, if Westendorf could serve as personal representative of Satterfield’s estate.

According to the signed statement, Laffitte told him it would be OK to serve as personal representative.

“He served up the bank to me on a Thanksgiving Day platter,” Bland said.

....

Hand written letter is unusual to me.

Eta and why would AM be asking him and not Fleming?
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Imo, the bank will be liable for every dollar that was deposited into the incorrect account plus punitive damages. The name on the check Or electronic transfer must match precisely to the name on the account. The bank could try to retrieve money from AM, but it is probably gone and will be time consuming.
 
Elley Mae said:
According to Bland, Westendorf didn’t file a single document on the settlement (beyond the initial petition) during his tenure as a personal representative, yet he collected $30,000 for his role. He finally stepped down as personal representative weeks after Bland and Richter filed a lawsuit against him and others for the scheme.

“It’s highway robbery,” Bland said of the $30,000 Westendorf collected. “He didn’t do anything. He didn’t file anything. He didn’t manage any money. Nothing.”

Last week, Westendorf mailed Bland a $30,000 check to pay the estate back for the money he took. Bland said he was dismissed from the lawsuit because he already got what he needed from him.

Murdaugh Murders Saga: Attorneys Target Bank For Botched $4.3 Million Settlement

On October 1, the same day Fleming and his law firm settled with the Satterfield estate, Westendorf signed a statement that said he asked his boss Russell Laffitte, CEO of Palmetto State Bank, if Westendorf could serve as personal representative of Satterfield’s estate.

According to the signed statement, Laffitte told him it would be OK to serve as personal representative.

“He served up the bank to me on a Thanksgiving Day platter,” Bland said.

....

Hand written letter is unusual to me.

Eta and why would AM be asking him and not Fleming?
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Because they needed a banker to make it all look above board?
 
Rosiebones said:
Showing my ignorance here, but how are off shore accounts set up and managed? Would you need a banker to do that kind of thing?
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I think to actually set up a dummy corp you'd need a lawyer? Maybe not though now in the internet age? In the past these off shore banks just looked the other way and said yeaaa give us your money. I think it may be more difficult in some places but I'm sure other places have popped up to fill the void. Hard to police the world.
 
Angleterre said:
I’m going to play devils advocate here with regards to the 114,000 pills.
Do you know what strength the $80 pill is in mg terms? The reason I ask is because what if that is a 5mg pill?

I am a user of Oxycodone after I suffered catastrophic injuries falling down 20ft of stairs and being temporarily paralysed and learning to walk again over an 18month period with spinal cord damages resulting from the fall and many surgeries since. I have been on pain meds , thoroughly and closely monitored by my Dr’s on a monthly basis for 12 years, if I don’t have them,then my life is one of existence with tremendous pain as opposed to living life when taking them and still being in pain and some days (often 2/3 per week) being unable to walk sufficiently to leave my house but I am still able to have some sort of life which is more than an existence. So I have ( after a very long time) now accepted that I will need them for a long time to come and as my Dr states, I have to realise that to have any kind of life quality, I need to control my pain by taking this medication and realising that for me, it’s no different than a diabetic being reliant on insulin ( albeit they could die without it ) in order to live any kind of life . I would like to be drug free but I don’t ever see this as a possibility as over the years I have tried alternative medicines and pain patches, all to no avail and I have had two surgeries to cauterise my nerve endings around my spinal cord, to prevent the pain signals being sent to my brain but although the test surgery using a different method to block the signals , worked for a couple of days, the actual surgery used a totally different method to get long term nerves to brain signal blockers which unfortunately failed and in fact has now caused me a completely new problem where my nerves all of a sudden play dead and I fall and the falls are becoming more and more frequent.
Anyway, these drugs start as low as 5mg pills and go up incrementally 10mg pills, 20mg, 40mg, 80mg and 160mg pill.
The longer you take them, the more your body becomes dependent on them and so it could be that AM started off with a 5mg or 10mg pill and then took 20mg pill when they were no longer sufficient etc
But, whereas mine are legally prescribed, is it a case of when trying to purchase on the black market or dark web that you are able to pay different prices for different pill mg? Or do you have to get what is available at the time because its dependant on where the pills are obtained from and if legally obtained by a rogue Dr or obtained on the Streets illegally with purchasing from a street dealer ?
The reason I ask is because say for example sake, AM required 80mg in the morning and 80mg in the evening if 12 hour MST release, could it be that the 160 total mg was made up of 16 x 10mg pills at $80 per pill , equating to $1280.00 per day or 16 pills daily , that would eat into anyone’s finances much sooner and the suggested 125,000 as stated by @swedeheart in this post OR could it be $80 for an 80mg pill which equals two pills a day at a cost of $160 per day ( which means it would take a lot longer to spend all the money on these drugs as the amount that AM has suggested he’s spent and the 125,000 pills would last a lot longer).
Furthermore, I am referring to the twice daily dose with long term release. But what if AM was on Oxycodone/OxyContin short term release of ? mg every 4-6 hours?
This would cost even more money as more pills would be required if for example he was on 80mg tablets every 4-6 hours so 6 x 80mg tablets @ $80 per pill if 4 hourly = $480 per day OR 4 x 80mg tablets @ $80 per pill if 6 hourly = $320 per day BUT if for example he had to pay $80 for each 10mg pill then his 4 hour per day bill , using 4 hourly habit of 48 x 10mg pills @ $80 per pill would = $3840 per day or if 6 hourly 32 x $80 = $2560.

(Apologies for all the numbers but it really does depend on factors suchas
*what his daily dose is ?
*is that dose made up of short term quick release tablets or long term slow release tablets ?
*how many doses are required ? *what mg tablet the $80 quoted by @swedeheart refers to?

This then gives you an idea of how many tablets are required on a daily basis and what it is likely to cost .

Is it known if AM was ever legally prescribed these drugs for an injury?
And if so, STR or LTR ?
And what dose?
Thank you
All MOO
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$80 for high mg oxy’s. $10-15 for norco, Percocet grade/mg pills.
 
SuziQ said:
... What is insane is that this banker did what he did for 30k. That's not enough to risk your career and go to jail over....All moo.
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Gotta wonder how many other fraudulent schemes Westendorf's been involved in with AM and CF? $30K isn't a lot of money but if you've run 10, 20, 30 frauds it's a lucrative scam.
 
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Alcohol has not been mentioned from AM attorneys, or if it has I missed it. My thought is they don’t want it to be brought up because of Paul’s role in MB.

Alcohol shines a light on:
The accident.
The noted inebriated condition of AM at the hospital.
Pauls issues with it prior to the accident.
Buster allowed Paul to use his ID.

Opioid addiction is more forgiving than alcohol. They are going to say he started taking opioids for pain management and he got addicted.
 
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