Witness Says She Confronted Alex Murdaugh About Missing Cash Hours Before Murder of Wife and Son
Hours before Alex Murdaugh allegedly brutally murdered his wife and son last June, a former law firm colleague says she confronted him about a slew of missing legal fees.
The stunning revelation came Wednesday by way of Jeanne Seckinger, CFO of Murdaugh’s family law firm PMPED—since rebranded Parker Law Group—in a federal financial trial of an ex-banker with ties to the disgraced scion. While Murdaugh is not criminally charged in the case against Russell Laffitte, he is an unindicted co-conspirator in the case against the former CEO of Palmetto State Bank. Prosecutors allege that Laffitte aided Murdaugh in several financial schemes, allowing him to misuse and deposit nearly $2 million that belonged to his clients.
“Laffitte was Murdaugh’s point of contact and really served as Murdaugh’s personal banker,” prosecutor Emily Limehouse said during opening statements on Tuesday.