There was at least one local accomplice: a banker who helped manage the accounts. They had been college buddies.
No one at the law firm has been implicated, and it seems his real damages against them were to their reputation. His secretary claimed to have found something suspicious but hadn’t gotten around to asking him about it before the killings.
One example crime: his longtime housekeeper had an accident on his property. Details were unclear, but she fell on some stairs, hit her head, and died in hospital. He convinced her sons, who are disabled, to hire him to file a claim against his own insurance, which he would then pay to them. Except he didn’t pay them. The banker opened a trust, took out his own fee, paid Murdaugh’s lawyer fee, and let Murdaugh sign it over to himself. tl/dr - shady shit, but largely confined to these two guys
Wow. I have no words. But I’m asking about the law firm, explicitly. Was no one monitoring the books? Are audits not typically done at least once per fiscal year? How did the books at the actual law firm balance?
Yes, but it’s worked for many more rapists, murderers, human traffickers, gun runners, drug dealers, dog fighters, too. I’m glad people remember that Brock Turner is a rapist, nonetheless.
So how did the affluenza defense not work?
I think I missed the obligatory /s the first go round.
It tends to fail when you steal from your own law partners.
I’m not understanding how the law firm didn’t manage to see this. Did he have inside accomplices?
There was at least one local accomplice: a banker who helped manage the accounts. They had been college buddies.
No one at the law firm has been implicated, and it seems his real damages against them were to their reputation. His secretary claimed to have found something suspicious but hadn’t gotten around to asking him about it before the killings.
One example crime: his longtime housekeeper had an accident on his property. Details were unclear, but she fell on some stairs, hit her head, and died in hospital. He convinced her sons, who are disabled, to hire him to file a claim against his own insurance, which he would then pay to them. Except he didn’t pay them. The banker opened a trust, took out his own fee, paid Murdaugh’s lawyer fee, and let Murdaugh sign it over to himself. tl/dr - shady shit, but largely confined to these two guys
Wow. I have no words. But I’m asking about the law firm, explicitly. Was no one monitoring the books? Are audits not typically done at least once per fiscal year? How did the books at the actual law firm balance?
It worked one time on a minor, really. There may have been some other instances but we are hopefully more or less beyond that as a concept.
For clarity, are we talking about Brock Turner the rapist?
Ethan Couch, he killed 4 people in a drunk driving accident.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethan_Couch
Ah man, my apologies, thank you for the correction.
I thought you meant the convicted rapist Brock Turner, but I’m happy to be proved wrong and educated, cheers.
Yes, but it’s worked for many more rapists, murderers, human traffickers, gun runners, drug dealers, dog fighters, too. I’m glad people remember that Brock Turner is a rapist, nonetheless.
What?
He went to far.
Because blatant cases of affluenza look pretty fucking bad on a judge’s record, and this case would be too blatant to let slide.