SC - Paul Murdaugh, 22 and mom Margaret, 52, found shot to death, Islandton, 7 June 2021 #11

[evelezrn]

I AM PROBABLY MISSING SOMETHING

I thought when the name was changed to reflect the ailing father as beneficiary he would get the money until his death. Granted, he died 3 days later. BUT once the money was HIS (ailing father), it would go to who ever HIS beneficiaries were when he died. I would think he would have his wife (AM's mother) as a beneficiary. Why did AM automatically get the money?? It legally belonged to the Elder Murdaugh for 3 days. I guess we'll never know what was in the Elder Murdaugh's will..
Like I said I'm probably missing something.

 

[GeorgiaRai]

I AM PROBABLY MISSING SOMETHING

I thought when the name was changed to reflect the ailing father as beneficiary he would get the money until his death. Granted, he died 3 days later. BUT once the money was HIS (ailing father), it would go to who ever HIS beneficiaries were when he died. I would think he would have his wife (AM's mother) as a beneficiary. Why did AM automatically get the money?? It legally belonged to the Elder Murdaugh for 3 days. I guess we'll never know what was in the Elder Murdaugh's will..
Like I said I'm probably missing something.

Her sister, and then her father-in-law, were named to serve as her personal representative - not named as her beneficiary. From the article, it appears AM had always been beneficiary. JMO.

 

[LetsSolvIt]

I would think without an added date or initials in margin, the crossing out of her sisters name on her will would be completely void wouldn’t it? I’d imagine that if you wanted to change the person in charge of your estate you’d need your lawyer to draft up an entirely new will. I really hope that they are not just letting this happen. MOO.

DH Esq. says the “executor” or personal representative named in a will is actually only a nomination, even if the will says the decedent “appoints” someone. The court appoints the executor or personal representative, and can appoint anyone, but usually appoints the person named as executor in the will. For instance, if the court felt a non-family member should not be executor because of everything going on, they could appoint someone totally unrelated to the family. I would think that would be prudent in this case. MOO.

In a related matter, the executor can pay him/herself for his time and effort in overseeing the probation. Someone I knew paid himself a $100,000 executor fee plus expense reimbursements. OMO.

 

[evelezrn]

Thank you both GeorgiaRai and LetSolvit for setting me straight about the "personal representative" (not beneficiary). I knew I was missing something.
Happy New Year y'all

 

[Countem]

https://www.fitsnews.com/2021/12/31/pmped-is-ditching-murdaugh-from-law-firm-name-documents-show/

Well, that was only a matter of time.

Article summary:

“Over the past two days seven members of the firm […] have filed paperwork with the South Carolina Secretary of State’s Office to register at least eight new legal entities.”

“It is not immediately clear whether PMPED is dissolving altogether or these attorneys are simply splitting from the firm.”

 

[Elley Mae]

You can change your name, you can’t change your reputation.

Hospital in my area changed name for same reason, my sis was one that won large malpractice settlement and others I know have and read about.

 

[Elley Mae]

https://www.fitsnews.com/2021/12/31/pmped-is-ditching-murdaugh-from-law-firm-name-documents-show/

Well, that was only a matter of time.

Article summary:

“Over the past two days seven members of the firm […] have filed paperwork with the South Carolina Secretary of State’s Office to register at least eight new legal entities.”

“It is not immediately clear whether PMPED is dissolving altogether or these attorneys are simply splitting from the firm.”

Guess they will be independent and just share the building? Change the signs. I don’t think it’s going to work.

 

[windrower]

Alex Murdaugh's wife left him all of her property in will before mysterious murder

Sure she did.

Riiiiiiight.

There’s a lot of evil afoot in the Murdaugh family, IMO.

Hypothetically, AM takes out problem family members, those who will cost him big bucks. Then he takes out the family patriarch, which benefits him on several fronts: inheritance, keeps investigators moving through even more muddy waters.

I agree with girlhasnoname. What a scheming, conniving mess this is.

IMO

 

[Moma J]

Strange no news or sightings of BM. As for AM OH WHAT A TANGLE WEB WE WEAVE. On a better note: HAVE A GREAT 2022 NEW YEAR.

 

[Elley Mae]

The attorney, S.C. Rep. Justin Bamberg, told FITSNews on Monday that one of the alleged victims he is representing, from whom Murdaugh is accused of taking $750,000 nearly two years ago, was recently charged a $300,000 attorney fee by Peters, Murdaugh, Parker, Eltzroth and Detrick when the firm returned the money to him.

https://www.fitsnews.com/2021/12/30...-from-murdaughs-alleged-victim-attorney-says/

Bamberg said another former client of Murdaugh’s was threatened by one of PMPED’s attorneys after he informed the firm that he had retained outside counsel.

Bamberg also suggested that the court might consider a receivership on PMPED as the case continues to get more complicated.

“The firm is a direct beneficiary of Alex Murdaugh’s misdeeds and it raises the question of: Should the firm’s money be tied up?” Bamberg said. “I think that for the best interest of the victims who have to be made whole, (a receivership) is something that needs to be looked at.”

In another incident, Bamberg said a former client of Murdaugh received a call from Murdaugh one week after he was allegedly shot in what he said was a “murder for hire” plot and days after it was announced that the state Supreme Court had suspended his license to practice law.

At the time, Murdaugh was allegedly detoxing in a rehab facility out of state.

Murdaugh was calling the client to tell her that he had secured a settlement for her case, Bamberg said.

“How? How?” Bamberg said about the alleged phone call from rehab. “It is literally mind-boggling.”

Bamberg told FITSNews that lawsuits against PMPED could be coming soon, which could include a class action suit.

“Ain’t nobody about to punk my clients,” Bamberg said.

 

[NervousNellie]

I realize this is a big nothing burger in reality, but it looks like the drought is over.
https://twitter.com/MandyMatney/status/1478201525470175232

[URL='https://twitter.com/MandyMatney']Mandy Matney

@MandyMatney

Every single time I think it’s getting remotely slow on the Murdaugh beat, I get a phone call that leaves me like

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[Lux et Veritas]

https://www.fitsnews.com/2021/12/30...-from-murdaughs-alleged-victim-attorney-says/

Something's really rotten in Denmark or, in this case, the SC Low Country.

Before it's all said and done (it may be a long while...), I believe that PMPED will be outed as rotted through and through with the blackest, most corrosive corruption imaginable. How many hundreds of other clients (and their families) were never made whole over decades?!

No wonder PMPED members are each filing brand new, separate legal entities. Rats fleeing a sinking ship of their own doing, trying desperately to save their own butts.

https://www.fitsnews.com/2021/12/31/pmped-is-ditching-murdaugh-from-law-firm-name-documents-show/

JMO

 

[Cryptic]

Guess they will be independent and just share the building? Change the signs. I don’t think it’s going to work.

It probably depends on the individual attorney with in the firm.

1-800-Sue them type law firms are often shells where only the lead / partner attorneys actually have offices in the building. The other attorneys are then just part timers who are willing to take cases that the firm sends them.

Sometimes, not even the partners have offices in the building. In these cases, the building is just used by support staff who, as one attorney once explained to me, meet the clients, do the paperwork and file up to 1,500(+) law suits per year.

In either case, the part timers do not have offices with in the building and may or may not, advertise their part time connection to the personal injury firm in the course of practicing other forms of law at their office.

I imagine that a part timer would be able to separate reputation wise pretty easily as the only truly public thing really linking them to the firm is that their name could be on the web site or letter head.

 

[sds71]

@Kacen
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Hampton law firm PMPED, founded by the Murdaugh family in 1910, is now called Parker Law Group after partner John E. Parker

 

[MerryB]

“Contrary to media reports over the holidays stating that PMPED was "splitting up," with Randolph "Randy" Murdaugh IV branching out to form his own solo practice, Crosby confirmed to The Guardian on Tuesday that Murdaugh would remain a partner and practice law in the Parker Law Group.”

Alex Murdaugh update: New law firm announced by PMPED partners in SC

 

[Bond James]

https://www.fitsnews.com/2021/12/30...-from-murdaughs-alleged-victim-attorney-says/

Something's really rotten in Denmark or, in this case, the SC Low Country.

Before it's all said and done (it may be a long while...), I believe that PMPED will be outed as rotted through and through with the blackest, most corrosive corruption imaginable. How many hundreds of other clients (and their families) were never made whole over decades?!

No wonder PMPED members are each filing brand new, separate legal entities. Rats fleeing a sinking ship of their own doing, trying desperately to save their own butts.

https://www.fitsnews.com/2021/12/31/pmped-is-ditching-murdaugh-from-law-firm-name-documents-show/

JMO

I know the area- I think this is MUCH bigger than we know- CSX is privately owned by Yale Timothy Mellon- Yes, that Mellon- you think a Mellon pays out that kind of settlement because vegetation grew over a sign? Harpootlian connected to Clinton through his Pharma co council, Obama and Biden- bigger that low country, I feel

 

[MassGuy]

Big news breaking tomorrow morning in the Murdaugh Murders.

Stay tuned to @fitsnews and the Murdaugh Murders Podcast bright and early. Trust me.

https://twitter.com/mandymatney/status/1478562320859156485?s=21

 

[Luna20]

https://www.fitsnews.com/2021/12/30...-from-murdaughs-alleged-victim-attorney-says/

Something's really rotten in Denmark or, in this case, the SC Low Country.

Before it's all said and done (it may be a long while...), I believe that PMPED will be outed as rotted through and through with the blackest, most corrosive corruption imaginable. How many hundreds of other clients (and their families) were never made whole over decades?!

No wonder PMPED members are each filing brand new, separate legal entities. Rats fleeing a sinking ship of their own doing, trying desperately to save their own butts.

https://www.fitsnews.com/2021/12/31/pmped-is-ditching-murdaugh-from-law-firm-name-documents-show/

JMO

I wasn’t convinced earlier on that PMPED was aware of AM shadiness but now I don’t see how they could not have known anything. It’s not adding up…

 

[sds71]

SC Attorney General's Office dismisses charges against Alex Murdaugh

Officials said the two charges being dismissed are the two counts of obtaining property by false pretenses that Murdaugh was arrested for in October.

The Attorney General's office announced the decision in a recent letter to state officials. The letter states that these charges are now redundant because Murdaugh was charged again for the same incident in November when the State Grand Jury issued five indictments against him. Murdaugh was later given a $7 million bond on these indictments.
Murdaugh was initially denied bond for the two charges he was arrested for in October. However, the Attorney General's office said this ruling is now meaningless since they are dismissing those charges against him.

 

[sunshineray]

The attorney, S.C. Rep. Justin Bamberg, told FITSNews on Monday that one of the alleged victims he is representing, from whom Murdaugh is accused of taking $750,000 nearly two years ago, was recently charged a $300,000 attorney fee by Peters, Murdaugh, Parker, Eltzroth and Detrick when the firm returned the money to him.

https://www.fitsnews.com/2021/12/30...-from-murdaughs-alleged-victim-attorney-says/

Bamberg said another former client of Murdaugh’s was threatened by one of PMPED’s attorneys after he informed the firm that he had retained outside counsel.

Bamberg also suggested that the court might consider a receivership on PMPED as the case continues to get more complicated.

“The firm is a direct beneficiary of Alex Murdaugh’s misdeeds and it raises the question of: Should the firm’s money be tied up?” Bamberg said. “I think that for the best interest of the victims who have to be made whole, (a receivership) is something that needs to be looked at.”

In another incident, Bamberg said a former client of Murdaugh received a call from Murdaugh one week after he was allegedly shot in what he said was a “murder for hire” plot and days after it was announced that the state Supreme Court had suspended his license to practice law.

At the time, Murdaugh was allegedly detoxing in a rehab facility out of state.

Murdaugh was calling the client to tell her that he had secured a settlement for her case, Bamberg said.

“How? How?” Bamberg said about the alleged phone call from rehab. “It is literally mind-boggling.”

Bamberg told FITSNews that lawsuits against PMPED could be coming soon, which could include a class action suit.

“Ain’t nobody about to punk my clients,” Bamberg said.

In another incident, Bamberg said a former client of Murdaugh received a call from Murdaugh one week after he was allegedly shot in what he said was a “murder for hire” plot and days after it was announced that the state Supreme Court had suspended his license to practice law.

At the time, Murdaugh was allegedly detoxing in a rehab facility out of state.

Murdaugh was calling the client to tell her that he had secured a settlement for her case, Bamberg said.


I don't know... how does someone in the early throes of a decades long drug addiction withdrawal AND a gunshot wound to the head continue working as a personal injury lawyer? hummmmm