The South Carolina lawyer convicted Thursday, March 2, of murdering his wife and son in 2021 is also accused of stealing millions from his clients. Murdaugh reportedly stole nearly $1 million from one of his clients, who was a quadriplegic.
Alex Murdaugh, 54, was on trial for the Walterboro double murders, and prosecutors noted that he also stole millions of dollars from his clients.
One of those clients, Hakeem Pinckney, was just 19 years old when he was left paralyzed after a car accident in 2009. One of the car’s tires came apart, and the car rolled several times, also injuring his mother, Pamela Pinckney, his sister, Shaquarah, who suffered from scratches and his cousin, Natasha Thomas, who suffered from a facial injury.
The Pinckneys’ story has resurfaced due to Murdaugh’s murder trial.
Pinckney had been a student-athlete at the South Carolina School for the Deaf and Blind, where he played on the football team. His mother said Pinckney, who was deaf, “got thrown out on his head, so he had a spinal cord injury.”
“They operated on him. He ended up paralyzed, a quadriplegic,” Pinckney added.
The family hired Murdaugh, who sued the tire company for damages and secured the family a multimillion-dollar settlement. The former attorney is accused of using the cooperation of a banker who was a conservator in the case to steal some $1 million from the family.
Prosecutors said the disgraced attorney used some the funds to charter a private jet to attend a baseball game.
Murdaugh also is accused of exploiting Pinckney by using footage of him being fed through a straw in a 2021 promotional video he appeared in for a company that creates videos for defense attorneys.
In the video, Murdaugh said, “I can’t tell you how many times we have used your videos in mediation and seen the attorneys on the other side moved to tears.”
Prosecutors argued that Murdaugh killed his wife and son to avoid investigations that…
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