Alex Murdaugh is back behind maximum security fences at McCormick Correctional following his first guilty plea to some of the white collar crime he's charged with in addition to double murder.
The one-time kingpin lawyer says he hopes his confession will in his words, "help those I've hurt to heal." He was standing before the federal district judge in Charleston yesterday, entering his prearranged guilty plea to a 22-count indictment including fraud and money laundering. He'll be sentenced at a separate hearing later.
The deal his legal team cut with federal prosecutors stipulates that whatever prison time he's sentenced to will run concurrently with what he faces when he goes to trial on the state charges at the end of November.
The same judge, Richard Gergel, also granted Murdaugh's banker, Russell Lafitte, another week before he reports to begin his seven-year sentence.
Lafitte's lawyers are making the case to allow him to remain free while he appeals his bank fraud conviction for helping Murdaugh hide the money.
