A Georgia pastor and his wife have been arrested after police reportedly found eight people with various intellectual and physical disabilities being kept in a basement against their will. On January 13, EMS workers and Griffin firefighters responded to Curtis and Sophia Bankston’s home amid reports of someone suffering a seizure. A firefighter had to …
A South Carolina grand jury issued four more indictments against legal scion Alex Murdaugh, who remains jailed on a slew of charges for financial fraud. On Friday, South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson said in a statement that the indictments, all filed this month, consist of 27 new charges against Murdaugh, 53, whose law license …
A member of another storied South Carolina family lost his job at the family business on Friday after his name surfaced in the ever-broadening investigations into the affairs of disgraced attorney Alex Murdaugh. The board of directors of Palmetto State Bank fired CEO Russell Laffitte after subopoenas from the South Carolina Supreme Court’s Office of …
More indictments may be forthcoming in the fraud investigations against disgraced South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh — and some of those indictments are likely to include alleged co-conspirators. That’s on top of new civil lawsuits expected to be filed shortly, as CrimeOnline previously reported. Murdaugh is in jail with a $7 million bond, charged with …
South Carolina lawyer Alex Murdaugh, who remains jailed on financial fraud charges, is reportedly facing at least eight additional civil lawsuits from people who he allegedly scammed. According to Fox News, Murdaugh, 53, is accused of stealing money from a deaf man who was left paralyzed following a 2011 car accident and an ex-highway patrolman …
After weeks of deliberation, a California jury on Monday found Silicon Valley entrepreneur Elizabeth Holmes guilty on four counts of wire fraud and not guilty on four others related to the collapse of Theranos, the blood testing company that promised to deliver health information with just a drop of blood — but the technology didn’t …
Maggie Murdaugh, the murdered wife of disgraced South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh, left all her property to her husband in a will signed 16 years before her untimely death. While it’s unclear exactly what property Maggie Murdaugh owned at the time of her death, it appears that one property she owned was Moselle, the family …
On Monday, a South Carolina judge set bond at $7 million for Alex Murdaugh, who is facing a total of 48 counts of financial fraud — stemming from an alleged botched suicide-for-hire plot and stealing money from his former law firm and his dead housekeeper’s estate. The Island Packet reported that Richland County Judge Alison …
“She had lived that life for a couple of years and basically just ruined her daughter’s credit.”
South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson announced a bevy of charges contained in seven new indictments against suspended attorney Alex Murdaugh Thursday, and sources told WCIV a bond hearing scheduled for Friday had been postponed until next week.
South Carolina grand juries have slapped seven new indictments on embattled attorney Alex Murdaugh, adding 21 more counts to the 27 he’s already facing. South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson announced the indictments — in three counties — on Thursday, WCIV reported. The indictments include nine counts of breach of trust, seven counts of computer …
A man pleaded guilty to federal charges on Monday in New Jersey for his role in his then-girlfriend and a homeless man’s feel-good holiday story that garnered $400,000 on GoFundMe before it was exposed as a scam. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New Jersey announced that Mark D’Amico, 42, pleaded guilty to …
