COLUMBIA, S.C. — A state grand jury is looking into a trail of money from Alex Murdaugh’s alleged opioid drug habit to a Lowcountry gang based in the Walterboro-area and believed to be called the “Cowboys,” according to sources familiar with the investigation.
The money trail linking Murdaugh is allegedly in checks he wrote to a person who, in turn, would write checks to couriers to buy drugs, the sources said. The couriers are believed to have bought the drugs from Cowboys gang affiliates, they said.
The sources did not want their identities divulged because they are not authorized to speak on confidential investigations.
In a September interview with TODAY Show host Craig Melvin, Murdaugh’s attorney, S.C. Sen. Dick Harpootlian, said “it was uncovered that he had ... converted some client and law firm money to his own use and spent most of that on opioids.”
Harpootlian’s interview about Murdaugh taking client and law firm money was the first public statement on the matter.
Harpootlian said “the vast majority was used to buy drugs.”
This is the second reported grand jury involved in a case related to the Murdaugh family. Sources told the Island Packet, Beaufort Gazette and State newspapers that a grand jury is examining whether there was obstruction of justice in the investigation into Mallory Beach’s death.
SC grand jury to look at drug money trail from Alex Murdaugh to Lowcountry gang, sources say
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Seems that AM’s team is going to go with the “addict” versus “dealer.
Yet he says that AM used the money to “buy” drugs. I’m sure the sentencing is lighter for user then for a dealer.
Jmo