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South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh — who has been hit with scores of charges including the killing of his wife and son last year — is facing even more criminal counts as a grand jury indicted him Friday for tax evasion.
The 54-year-old, who allegedly shot his family members to cover up a host of financial crimes, is accused of working to avoid nearly $487,000 in state income taxes.
The nine new counts of attempting to evade taxes bring the numbers of counts against Murdaugh to over 100.
Tax returns dated from 2011 to 2019 show that Murdaugh made nearly $14 million as an attorney at Peters, Murdaugh, Parker, Eltzroth & Detrick, but also stole almost $7 million meant for the firm’s bank accounts, the state attorney general’s office alleged.
Murdaugh is set to stand trial in late Jan. 2023 for the June 2021 shooting deaths of his wife, Maggie, and son, Paul, at the family’s Colleton County home.
