Beyond The Horizon
ICYMI: Alex Murdaugh Loses Access To His 401-K
Alex Murdaugh will be spending the rest of his life in Prison and now a Judge has ruled that he won't have access to his 401k funds to help pay for his appeal. The Judge made the ruling based on the fact that Murdaugh owes restitution to several victims and his money will go towards making them whole before he has access to it.
Murdaugh was found guilty of murdering his wife and his son and is also facing charges of fraud in several other cases as well.
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Alex Murdaugh is denied access to his retirement accounts for $160,000 to fund his appeal | Daily Mail Online
- Duration:
- 12m
- Broadcast on:
- 11 Jul 2024
- Audio Format:
- mp3
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The same way that if you were a drug dealer and all of your money was seized, you wouldn't have access to any of that. Same thing applies here. You owe restitution, my friend. All of that money has to go to those you wrong. And as far as your appeal goes, well, guess what? If you can't afford a big-time lawyer, maybe Hart-Pootlean will do it for free, if not. Welcome to the real world and welcome to the world of a public defender. Today's article is from the Daily Mail and the headline. Alec Murdaw suffers new blow, as Judge denies him, access to his $160,000 retirement accounts, the fund is appeal on convictions for murdering his wife and son. Maybe Lori Vallow can open a portal from her jail cell, and her and Alec Murdaw can do some kind of woods-witch dance together. This article was authored by Stephen M. Lapour. Desgrace Legal-Sion, Alec Murdaw, has been denied access to $160,000 in his liquidated retirement accounts in an attempt to fund his appeal on his murder conviction. The 54-year-old was sentenced in early March to two consecutive life sentences after he was found guilty of shooting dead his wife Maggie, 52, and younger son Paul, 22, at the family's sprawling hunting estate on the night of June 7, 2021. Judge Daniel Hall ruled on Friday that he will not be allowed to access the six-figure amount from his liquidated 401(k) to pay for his legal team. And after all the money big red pilford here, yeah right, he shouldn't be able to have access to one single dollar. After careful consideration, defendant Richard Alexander Murdaw's motion for payment of attorney's fees and costs from untainted funds is denied, the court order said. Eric Bland, an attorney who represented and won settlements for several families who accused Murdaw of stealing their settlement money when he was their attorney argued against the request. Yeah, you shouldn't be able to have access to that dough before everybody else is made whole. That's how it works. If you're a thief, you're a con man and you get nailed, everybody has to be made whole before you get one single dollar. Feeling really good with Judge Hall's ruling, denying Eric Murdaw request for $160,000 of attorney fees for his appeal, he told WACH. I argued it would be unfair to Alex victims and creditors to permit him to jump the front of the line and grab that money. And while of course you have to have a hearing as a judge, I don't think there was ever any doubt that Murdaw was going to be denied access to these funds. Murdaw's lawyers filed the motion to appeal his conviction and sentencing a week after his conviction. He is now being held in his own cell at the Kirkland Reception and Evaluation Center, where he will undergo 45 days of testing, which the South Carolina Department of Corrections carries out on every prisoner to assess where to hold them permanently. Not a bad idea. Last thing you want to do is put somebody in some kind of situation where they're not capable of interacting or surviving. So good idea from the courts to do that. And I'm sure a lot of that has to do with gangs and mental illness. You don't want to have people from different gangs in the same jail cell or even in the same tier, you know, a lot of times they'll separate it by gang. So before you go to a facility, they got to air you out basically, figure out where you're going to go and what places the best fit for you and the state. As he is a convicted double murderer, Murdaw is being housed with the state's most brutal and violent inmates. Murdaw's attorneys Dick Hartputlian and Jim Griffin had previously hinted that they would file a notice of appeal within 10 days of his sentencing. Then on March 9th, Hartputlian tweeted, "Today Griffin and I filed our notice of appeal for Alec Murdaw." This is the next step in the legal process to fight for Alec Murdaw's constitutional right to a fair trial. Yeah, because he didn't get that. The guy got a much fairer trial than he gave his wife and his son, didn't he? And as far as Hartputlian goes, and Griffin, aren't they friends with Alec Murdaw? You're not going to take this case on pro bono. You're going to make this dude dip into his 401k. Imagine doing that to your friend. If I was a lawyer and my friend needed legal help, I would step right in and I would even worry about the money. The court document simply says, "Richard Alexander Murdaw appeals his convictions and sentences in the case's referenced above." During the trial, jurors heard from more than 75 witnesses and viewed nearly 800 pieces of evidence. They also heard about Murdaw's betrayed friends and clients. His failed attempts to stage his own death in an insurance fraud scheme, a fatal crash in which his son was implicated, the housekeeper who died in a fall in the Murdaw home and the grizzly scene of the killings. Eventually, the lawyer took the stand to admit to stealing millions of dollars from the family firm and clients saying he needed the money to fund his drug habit. That's one hell of a drug habit. And if his Jones was that bad, I highly doubt that he would have stayed just doing the pills. He didn't move to heroin or fentanyl, which is cheaper. Why not? More powerful. Gives you a bigger kick. So my guess is the whole drug addiction has been overblown as well. Was he addicted to drugs? Probably. But to the tune that he's talking about, that's a lot of money, folks. Spending that kind of money on drugs? You have to have a serious, serious problem, like a serious addiction, and I highly doubt that he was doing that amount of drugs on his own. He also admitted that he lied to investigators about being at the kennels where Maggie and Paul died saying he was paranoid of law enforcement because he was addicted to opioids and had pills in his pocket the night of the killings. Prosecutors did not have the weapons used to kill the Murdaws or other direct evidence like confessions or blood spatter. But they had a mountain of circumstantial evidence, including the video putting Murdaw at the scene of the killings five minutes before his wife and son stopped using their mobile phones forever. When he gave evidence last week, Murdaw appeared to cry as he denied again and again that he killed his wife. But juror Craig Moyer said that he saw through yet another lie. He never cried. All he did was blow snot. Moyer said, no tears. I saw his eyes. I was this close to him. It took the jury a few hours to convict him. And just like with Lori Valo, there was no doubt. When you looked at the evidence that they had compiled against this idiot, there was zero doubt in my mind that he was the one who killed his family. Especially for me, the censure was the video. Once we had that Snapchat video and it was confirmed to be old Big Red here, forget it. At his sentencing, Judge Clifton Newman described Murdaw as a monster who continued to lie even when the evidence was damning. This case qualifies under our death penalty statute based on the statutory aggravating circumstances of two or more people being murdered by the defendant by one act or pursuant to one scheme or course of conduct. I don't question at all the decision of the state not to pursue the death penalty. But as I sit here in this courtroom and I look around at the many portraits of judges and other court officials and reflect on the fact that over the past century, your family, including you, have been prosecuting people here in this courtroom and many have received the death penalty probably for lesser conduct. Remind me of the expression you gave on the witness stand? Oh, what tangled web we weave? What did you mean by that? I met when I lied, I continued to lie, Murdaw replied, and the question is when will it end? When will it end? And it has ended already for the jury because they've concluded that you continue to lie and you lied throughout your testimony. And perhaps with all the throng of people here, they for the most part all believe or 80, 90 and or 99% believe that you continue to lie now when your statement of denial to the court. Well, I can only speak for me and my beard, but me and my beard, we both believe that this dude is an absolute liar. Life Murdaw now faces is a far cry from the privileged world of multi-million dollar homes from the coast to the hunting lands of the low country he is used to. As part of the intake process, like all inmates, Murdaw will undergo medical tests, mental health and education assessments and the South Carolina Department of Corrections will gather other additional background information. The South Carolina Department of Corrections said in a statement last week, after the evaluation, Murdaw will be sent to one of the state's maximum security prisons to serve out the rest of his life behind bars. Kirkland is home to more than 1,700 of the most violent criminals in the state and churns through more than 8,000 prisoners each year for evaluation. As well as serving as the processing site for all of the state's convicts, it is also home to a specialized maximum security jail for the most dangerous and violent offenders. What is that Arkham Asylum? Adjacent to the prison is the Broad River Correctional Institution, which houses both high and medium security inmates. More than 700 prisoners died in South Carolina prisons and jails between 2015 and 2021. The majority of those deaths occurred at Kirkland, 160, and Broad River, 101. That's a lot of people dying in prison during that time period. Kirkland is also responsible for the maximum security unit, which houses some of the most violent and dangerous inmates in the state. The site's website says, furthermore, Kirkland Correctional Center houses inmates who are in the statewide protective custody program, and that's going to be out Murdaw. He's going to have to be protected, PC'd up, or he's going to get dealt with. Trial Attorney Robert Reichard tweeted on the eve of Murdaw Sentencing, tomorrow will be a much different day for Murdaw. After sentencing, instead of going to the county jail, he will go to reception and evaluation on Broad River Road. They'll shave his head and put him through a battery of tests. Then, he will be assigned to an SC Department of Corrections facility. Because he's convicted of a violent crime, he will go to a facility that only houses the violent criminals, the worst of the worst. It'll be much different scene than in the county jail. These are brutal environments, and it'll be quite a shock. After the privileged life, he has lived. Well, guess what? Another one, like Prince Andrew, that I have zero empathy for. You grow up with all that privilege, all that wealth, all of those opportunities, just to squander it because you want to do some drugs. So yeah, no empathy for you either, Alec Murdaw, and I'm happy to hear that you can't access your $160,000. I hope every single dollar of that goes to restitution to those you stole from and those you harmed, and as for you, well, I hope you rot in whatever prison is the worst in your state for the rest of your miserable life. 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