If this is true - I.e. pleading to one count of criminal conspiracy for the multi-county narcotics distribution charges’ - my opinion is much more needs to be made known and available on this. One count? And multi are noted and the millions of dollars alleged to be involved? Seriously?
From my perspective it didn’t seem the defendant displayed or had the alleged ‘drug’ problem that was floated and led to his need for rehab.
Seems something is getting ‘swept under the rug’ on this matter.
MOO
He was indicted in June 2022 :
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Once prominent and soon-to-be disbarred South Carolina
lawyer Alex Murdaughhas been indicted again, this time prosecutors saying his crimes extended to an eight-year money laundering and painkiller ring with a friend and former client charged with trying to help him commit suicide.
Murdaugh wrote 437 checks worth $2.4 million that Curtis “Eddie” Smith cashed over eight years, keeping some of the money for himself and giving the rest for wide-ranging illegal activities, according to indictments handed up last week and unsealed Tuesday.
That illegal activity included a “distribution network” for the painkiller oxycodone, according to prosecutors, who did not specify any of the other possible crimes. Both men were charged with possessing, manufacturing or distributing narcotics, but court records did not provide additional details.
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Murdaugh and Smith started laundering more money and stopped taking precautions to avoid detection about three months before the killings, said Creighton Waters, the chief of the state Attorney General Office’s State Grand Jury Division.
Waters did not give any more details at Smith’s bond hearing Tuesday.
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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Once prominent and soon-to-be disbarred South Carolina lawyer Alex Murdaugh has been indicted again, this time prosecutors saying his crimes extended to an eight-year money laundering and painkiller ring with a friend and former client charged with trying to help him commit sui
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