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you're watching CNBC on demand in this American Greed special Is this such a crazy story? The unsolved double murder of a prominent lawyer's wife and son is making new headlines. An unprecedented story about the power of a small town. Have they had any problems? Can you solve it? away, but then you and Big Time Greed Alex prayed for the victims of him in front of him for a century. The powerful Murdoch family of lawyers and prosecutors maintains strong control over the large number of things they were working on, but behind the aura of respectability of the prosecutors.

Let's say that Alec Murdock hides a treasure trove of devious schemes where the million dollars and I have ever heard of the case where the defendant and the plaintiff's lawyer get together and say we are going to take all the monetary crimes extended to a money laundering of eight years in five miles for years Murdoch seems untouchable Tragedy strikes, the alleged crimes emerge from the darkness like the type of person who would do something of this nature and come to light, it is another twist in a shocking series of devastating events that a well-known family lawyer discovers. himself now Murdoch's victims and those who face him in court bring American Greed into the story;

It is almost impossible to believe that he is a John Gray in the early hours of the morning in the dark, misty winter. Security cameras record when 19-year-old Paul Murdoch emerges. from a boat he settles in a bar and puts a lot of money on Alec Murdock's son. The prominent lawyer of a powerful legal

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based in Hampton South Carolina Paul is used to getting and doing whatever he wants, but the Monarch family is not only in Hampton but in the region for a long time after strutting around the bar. Paul is seen arguing with some of the five friends who accompanied him on the water tonight in his father's boats with other members of the group about the seriousness of the The moment does not seem clear.

He sees Mallory and Anthony's boyfriend. You know, laughing while holding hands can be chilling because you know you're watching moments of this young woman's life. It's hard to see, honestly, there are six of us who met with the authorities. The missing arrive. The girl's boyfriend, Anthony Cook, tells them: "How unlikely it is that Paul or any Murdoch will ever face justice in this deadly incident. That's your son. Good luck. Alec Murdock may seem above the law for the people who know him, but death on his ship begins to shine." a light on his family that could break him down and see him sitting there and the walls begin to close in because now he and his entire world because of the level of scrutiny he never experienced in that family's life in the months following his family's boat accident son.

An unprecedented story of powers and

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will be revealed, but it's family trauma, it's biblical, it's Shakespearean, it's just everything, even the setting of Murdoch's real life. The southern gothic tale seems taken from a novel that is in what we call the Bajo. Country, it's a different world in a very real sense, it's almost a time travel to Mayberry, the largest building is the phallic Murdoch's Old Law Firm, everyone knows what the firm is for many years, there was never a sign in front and Guess what are still not needed for almost nine decades. Three generations of Murdochs served as prosecutors, also known as attorneys, for Hampton and four surrounding counties.

The job makes them the main power brokers in the area. Justin Bamberg is a lawyer who will represent many of Alec Murdoch's alleged victims, the other end of what they were working on or what they wanted, years linked, that's law enforcement, that's EMS, his life is difficult, it's a kind of power that comes in handy in the personal injury law firm, Murdoch's career as a whole. with the attorney's office Valerie Borderline is a Wall Street Journal reporter now writing a book about the Murdoch family. The lawyer decides who will be prosecuted for a case if you had a problem or ran into the law and he came to them or was not firm.

Sometimes they can make it go away, but according to attorney Justin Timberg, the ability to decide how and when the law is applied as lawyers gives the Murdochs an advantage in their private law firm when they try again with a local jury. go to the photo jury and if the mother of the lawyer's office could have dropped the hammer and the lawyer murdered, she realized, we were going to pay for it, the cases came to Murdoch Law Firm because if you have a personal injury lawsuit, you were going to win and was probably going to make more money than anywhere else the case in Richland County who would settle for 500 000 could easily at least 10 million dollars Alec Murdock is born into this

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of wealth and influence in 1960 when he becomes lawyer in 1995 Murdoch uses his Gap gift and powerful name to build his own book of clients.

Joe McCullough will then file a lawsuit against the Dalek Murdoch family. A reputation that probably allowed him to solve many cases without having to try. the case according to an archived version of his company's website. Murdoch's practice focuses on personal injury law, where he practices to help clients injured or killed in accidents or due to defective products. All of these clients are in dire need of an experienced advocate for them and he's just that run-of-the-mill Countrywide guy upstairs I'll take care of you, you hear it, you've got nothing to worry about. I promise you that I have you among the clients who came to Alec Murdoch for help. is the family of Hakeem Pinkney, a young deaf man.

Pinckney's life was turned upside down in a horrific car accident in 2009 that also involved his mother, Pamela. She says a friend refers her to a lawyer who kindly receives her at the hospital where she is also recovering. It's Alec Murdock, he looked us all in the eyes and faces and told us no, he's out, we have our best. He would never do anything that could hurt us. He is like family to us. I just took his word as his bond. That is what I did. I really like it in the Hampton area. Pinky thinks that she can be trusted with the Murdoch surname and who could blame her after all.

Family has been the law here for almost a century, but as the saying goes, power corrupts absolutely. Alex's clients were never his best interests, his best interests were always his pocketbook. Next up in the alleged Murdoch fraud revealed if you have Criminal Minds and then the tragic accident that threatens to lead the Murdoch dynasty forever in the low country of South Carolina. Lawyer Alec Murdock has all the symbols of wealth and success that his well-known last name implies. Everything is exposed on his wife Maggie's Facebook page, the images are shown there. her husband standing outside a private plane attending Black Tie Affairs in New York City next to the University of South Carolina basketball court and on vacation with his entire happy family.

There are also shots of the Murdoch Clan riding around on a variety of boats and other toys in the family home. The house and hunting property Moselle saw was 1700 acres, which is within 20 minutes of a lot of really good hunting properties. Murdock is an avid hunter and it is here, in the vast woods, that he entertains his friends and associates, but behind his lordly existence, prosecutors say Murdoch is using his family's powerful legal legacy to Lord to trust clients. so I can rob them blind. 9. turn to Murdoch believing he will work to get them what they deserve.

Then in October 2011, Hakeem, nicknamed us, simply dies in a nursing home, that's how someone just ripped my heart out of my body now there is dignity left to bury his son Securus Murdoch feels the opportunity to help the family to sue tire company whose defective product allegedly caused accident threat separated around tire and crash, prosecutors say in indictment pinkknees receive multimillion-dollar settlement from tire maker progressing too quickly resolved out of court we didn't even go to court you just get some of your money in the Murdoch collection charge representative fees for representing them prosecutors say you want more two months after Hakeem Pinkney's death project if you say it starts to work with Russell Lafitte, a local bank executive, to skin these two old family friends and then allegedly uses a large portion of the pygmy settlement as his own personal slush Button Fox Bank has not been involved in any criminal wrongdoing and Neither his legal representative nor Derrot, who has pleaded not guilty to state and federal charges, responded to American Greed's request for comment, but Bamberg says he knows exactly what Murdoch and the banker were up to.

It's money meant to compensate people who had lived through one of the most traumatic experiences, if not the most traumatic, most people can imagine that the money was taken from them and the people involved didn't care at all about a mother with a heart. broken of a quadriplegic. One young man's accusations say that Murdoch is just beginning a huge, long plan to prove that his suffering clients are strategic. He chose people who would not question him. People who trusted that he was an old family friend. He had a state trooper come to visit. asked him for help that he really took money from Murdoch he is supposedly hiding his theft he cannot disperse his money until his litigation is completed and that his money is being used to pay private investigators and accident reconstructions no one seems to question him he prayed his victims who were his clients They are right in front of him and there are millions of dollars on the way every year according to the South Carolina Supreme Court.

Murdoch has admitted to stealing millions from clients and his own law firm without anyone keeping it to himself. tabs on the lawyer whose last name represents the law in the country under prosecutors say Murdoch's crimes continue for years believing this guy had the arrogance of thinking he wouldn't get caught he just continued doing it again and again and again, but then you think: how could he not think that he was going to get away with it after a sudden death in the Murdoch house and the lawyer gets away with his biggest score, but you know that many times someone steals if someone steals ? a gun thank you thank you For years Alec Murdock has been living high on the Hogs thanks to his alleged robberies of long-suffering clients who turned to him at the lowest moments of their lives as if they were many rich and privileged people.

Murdoch is too busy for some. works on Moselle, the family's 1,700-acre hunting estate, employs a woman named Gloria Satterfield to work for her family as a nanny and housekeeper, her children Tony Satterfield and rahariat, others is what she does best. Loving kindly in a cup, the love she shows to her loved ones. The children will extend to Murdoch is what Maggie Maggie and her two sons, Paul on the left and Buster on the right, he was proud of what she did and she was not just a housekeeper, she was more than that, she was a family, continues like mushrooms. were his, but after years at work on February 2, 2018 at The Brick, the steps leading up to the house at the Murdoch country estate tragedy fell down and I've heard of sleep.

I can't give it up. Hello, yes, can you have to do it? do something she's having I'm taking a call, do you know what it's called? three weeks after her accident at the Murdoch house Satterfield's life comes to an end I told her I love her I'll see you tomorrow and that's what she did I also love you and that was it, those were the last words we had to each other family, it is an unimaginable tragedy, but prosecutors and others allege Murdoch knows how to find the silver lining. Eric Bland will later represent to the Satterfield children that Alex is as devious and evil-minded a person as he thinks in a way that North Star does.

I believe he saw this as a financial avenue to recover money. Murdoch's devious plan to steal from the Fields center begins with him doing something most lawyers would never do openly. accepts blame for the death of his employees saying his dogs caused their fall, he just said that trip and that's all we knew and if anyone asked us but they could talk to him, the Satterfield family says that after every Murdoch He tells himself that he wants to make things right financially, the lawyer has a big insurance policy and tells the family that he wants to help them file the claim against him so they can collect any settlement that may be reached, but hey, You know you may have some medical bills and stuff, so let it go.

I'm trying to help you with that, but prosecutors say Murdoch is more interested in helping him. The insurance proceeds know that he cannot represent the children and go after his own insurance company. He needs to set them up with a lawyer that he I can trust that he threw himself in because it would be like a conflict of interest and I say my friend MV because you know, of course, I mean Corey Fleming's LinkedIn profile says he's going to do it for Murdoch and there's a lot things Murdoch doesn'treveals about the depth of their friendship. he didn't tell them that he grew up with Corey that they went to college together Quarry was Paul's godfather, his son according to a lawsuit Murdoch assured him to pay and Murdoch relies on the company to make sure they do what he tells his insurance company , if you don't settle within the policy limits, this case will go to trial, I will stand before my church, and I will lie in glorious death as the insurer moves closer to covering a huge amount. check Murdoch knows he can only pocket the money if the children never find out there has been a payment.

His real name serves as personal representative or public relations for his mother's estate. The job means he will approve any deal Murdoch makes that ensures the insurance payout is forthcoming. Murdoch. asks a local banker named Chad Westendorf to take over the position today is February 22, 2022. North will later make clear in the video deposition that his only qualification appears to be his friendship with murder, which made him more qualified to be public relations than Tony. I don't know, what was your job? SBR, tell me. what you were supposed to do um, where's the door? he hasn't been charged with any criminal offense and requested comment, but a G has been put in place. the Satterfield boys are completely in the dark how many times did you meet with Tony Satterfield?

How many times did you talk to Tony or Brian? How many documents did you send to Tony and Brian in Connecticut? You did it as a personal representative of the estate. Now Murdoch can really get to work according to Eric Bland the day after Western. new PR banker asks judge to approve Murdoch's insurance deal with Tony and Ryan for half a million dollars but prosecutors say Murdoch and Fleming keep the money you know you have serial gunmen you have murderers in series he's just a penless Slinger and you know the most dangerous thing is this: the devious scheme that prosecutors say Alec Murdock concocts to hide his robberies, whom he supposedly let suffer and Alex watched as Brian Harriet was pushed out onto the street while he was sitting on this money to get half. million dollar settlement belonging to Fuel Boys center attorney Alec Murdoch, who can't just write checks himself, needs a way to transfer his funds to himself that appears legitimate in personal injury cases with payouts.

Lawyers sometimes help their clients establish what is called a structured agreement. liquidation a fund that will pay out large amounts of money over time instead of giving it all at once and the leading provider of that system Inspire the world Force Consulting the real Fort is a 150,000 percent valid company Alec discovered a way to Taking advantage of Pencil Fortune's good name by creating his own personal accounts in Forge's name, which then allowed him to steal people's money to do this, prosecutors say in multiple criminal indictments, Murdoch simply opens accounts at Bank of America claiming who is doing business as Forge, prosecutors say he created this entity, this book to hide money and make it look like he was sending dollars to the deal.

Brilliance in the simplicity of him, it's as if he's spent more time thinking about being a criminal than simply being a lawyer for his clients in 2018, Satterfield's lawyer. Murdo Murdock Corey Fleming receives $505,000 check from Murdoch's insurer for settlement kept secret from Gloria's children Fleming did not respond to comments and pleaded not guilty to charges related to the central fields robberies , prosecutors allege that he spent most of the settlement money from Murdock's insurance company returned to Murdoch. He wrote a check for four hundred and three thousand five hundred dollars to forge not the real Forge Consulting but Forge and that money was sent to a post office box in an envelope with no cover letter.

Alex received that money and then he endorsed the check or deposited it himself and deposited that check in a personal bank account and it never reached my clients that is the crime, that they receive zero dollars? Have you ever heard of a case where the defendant and the plaintiff's attorney get together and say we're going to take all the money and nothing will go to the clients. He allegedly uses it to disguise his robberies of an injured state trooper's family friend and others who have been injured or killed in all of prosecutors' cases. They separately allege and accuse Murdoch of stealing more than $7 million for more than a dozen clients between 211 and 2020.

Meanwhile, Eric Bland says Murdoch shows no remorse about how his alleged thefts affect his victims. who suffer, so you know The Darkness of Alex Brian Harriet his mother and he lived in a mobile home that was financed by a bank after Gloria died there was no money to pay for the mobile home and the bank repossessed it and Brian was pushed into the street and he didn't want to finish, you know, spend a moment behind this. Apart from my uncle Vanessa, I didn't know where to go, it's a good job, that is, no job. Alex was aware of this and was thrown out onto the street while he was sitting on his money, which seems to worry little to Murdoch, who continues to live the life. for now, the tragedy to come imagine Murdoch has every reason to fear, one more green, follow us on Instagram, connect on Facebook and listen to the American Reading Podcast wherever you get your podcasts, we'll be back in a century, the Murdoch clan has ruled a section of the South Carolina Low Country in recent years.

Alec Murdock has supposedly been using the respectability that comes with his last name by dealing with clients who turned to him during the darkest chapters of his lives, but an event that occurs in 2019 will eventually lead to Murdoch's complete death. In the cold afternoon, Murdoch's son, Paul, and five of his friends take to the water in his father's boat. Joe McCullough represents Connor Cook, one of the young men on the boat with Paul's plan. I think he was enjoying an afternoon and evening at the Murdock. boat, it was not an unusual occurrence on the hill, represents Anthony Cook, who was also on the boat with his girlfriend Mallory Beach, all because of his family's success, you know he had access to a lot of toys and things that maybe other young people in Hampton County they had. does not have, according to multiple lawsuits, at night, Paul has access not only to the family boat but also to his older brother Buster's ID and his mother's credit card, which he uses to buy alcohol after attending a barbecue. oysters on an island.

The night continues drinking more. for Paul and his best friend Connor Cook and then Connor and Paul went and the bartender said they had two drinks each, Jager Bombs and lemon drops, and we were in and out of the bar in a matter of minutes. exit, security camera footage shows them encountering Paul's friend Morgan Dowden, Connor's girlfriend Miley Altman, and a couple, Anthony Cook and Mallory Beach, reportedly on the boat, taking a dark twist. I don't think a group of 19 year olds drinking is that unusual, unfortunately it turned ugly, although when Paul crossed the southern type of crazy drug means drunk it is known that sometimes positions and statements to the police say that actually that night February Murdoch strips down to his underwear. does a 360 degree in the trunk and gets into a fight with his girlfriend over her erratic driving the time Morgan said in court that he, you know, got in her face, spit on her, slapped her, it was very, all the kids said that he was very drunk and very unpleasant and hospital records show that his alcohol level was three times the legal level.

Limited in disability stage, he raised the vote, continues well, you know, the channels there are a complicated place to vote, you really need to know what you are doing. What are you doing to avoid falling to the ground or hitting something right after 2am? m., disaster strikes and Mallory Beach police search and rescue, EMS, and firefighters are missing? Rose, will be an 18-year-old white woman with blonde hair when the police arrive. Mallory's boyfriend. Anthony makes it clear who he thinks is to blame. He is very distraught and sees Paul being attended to by other law enforcement officers.

Las Vegas. He's not as angry as he seems. name and family connections would perhaps be treated differently under the law in terms of criminal prosecution than you or I when Paul and three other boat accident survivors are brought to our hospital. Police records say Alec Murdoch appears with his father, former lawyer Randolph Murdoch. III, according to a witness statement, Randolph Murdoch tells his grandson Paul to keep his mouth shut and witnesses at the hospital later tell investigators that Alex Murdoch appears to have a clear mission to orchestrate everyone being on the same page. page, he knows the implications of this if Mallory Beach is not found and the worst happens, he knows the kids were on his boat later, oh my gosh, if this is going to bring a lot of scrutiny to our family, the Wolves attack Alec Murdoch, he had to do it.

He gets it in his head, man, this case isn't going to solve everything and people are going to dig into my finances for almost a decade. Alec Murdock has allegedly been scamming client Hall. Key prosecutors say he has been on the run for years, a week after Murdoch's boat crashed. a bridge Mallory Beach's body is found in a swamp a few miles from the accident site the coroner's office is scheduled for an autopsy to confirm and identify the cause of death is not bad before the young woman's family files a lawsuit against claiming he should have known Paul was bought illegally with a lot to hide the revered lawyer has a lifetime of legal experience letting him know this could mean trouble he has undermined that man this case is not going to be solved these people are willing to do anything what they should get people are going to investigate my The finances according to prosecutors within Murdoch's financial records are a series of transactions that reveal a decade of alleged theft of not the only pressure he faces in April 2019, the attorney general of South Carolina charges Paul Murdock with one count of voting under the influence or DUI causing death and two counts of Supply causing great bodily injury people are starting to ask questions about Murdoch and how his family uses their power to protect their own doll Twenty-year-old Palmer will appear in court on May 6 to face three charges, all related to boating. accident that killed Mallory Beach on February 24, but it's not just about the Koran, why the murder has not been booked into jail working free despite the federal charges he faces.

Paul pleads innocent. Several dogs hired two of Batman to represent. His son, in addition to this expense, Alec Murdoch's insurer, Philadelphia Indemnity, also filed a lawsuit in federal court saying they do not understand the boat accident. It is around this time that prosecutors allege that Murdoch takes rapid action to steal money, they say, from his two clients. and the firm that supports his family, but because of Mallory Beach's lawsuit he cannot avoid the inevitable. Here's a key hearing where the June 10 accident case where they actually went to Jesus Eric was enormous pressure to free Hispanics from something they had been avoiding and avoiding for many months can't hear it hear not happening In the next episode of this American Greed special featuring Alec Murdoch's alleged fraud and the danger of being revealed, his hunting estate becomes the site of a gruesome double murder that leaves his life in tatters.

Murdoch admits to a grand plan. new one involving their own strange roadside shooting and when my back was turned they tried it as scrutiny increased investigators linked the Murdochs to new cases. I believe he was killed elsewhere and his body was examined more closely. past frauds the glory that causes this is not a different natural cause like Murdoch to foreign Justice