On 6/7/21, Alex Murdaugh was under investigation for obstruction of justice in the boat crash. The State Grand Jury had subpoenaed for his financial records that spring ...
His insurance carrier was suing him in federal court to not cover him in the boat crash and he had reason to believe that the judge was about to rule in their favor ...
He had run out the clock on avoiding handing over a list of his financial records to Mark Tinsley, lawyer for the boat crash. Mark was not letting Alex get away with anything and Alex likely didn't know how to handle that ...
Days earlier Mark had even warned Alex that if he (Alex) messed with the jury in the boat case then he (Mark) would sue Maggie and Paul in Beaufort County where Alex had less influence over outcomes ...
He was millions in debt and in some increasingly frantic scheme with Cousin Eddie to allegedly launder money ...
He had years of alleged thefts under his belt and because of the boat crash he and his family were under UNPRECEDENTED SCRUTINY in the press and on social media ...
In fact, @MandyMatney twice had mentioned one of his darkest secrets in stories in 2019 and 2020 ... the single record of the Gloria Satterfield settlement ...
Add to this Paul's behavior wasn't getting better, according to our sources. He was worse than ever, in fact ... which meant that at any time there could be another catastrophic event that would harm the family and bring sunlight on Alex's alleged crimes ...
Then on this same day, the CFO of PMPED confronted Alex AGAIN about the missing fees. Alex growled at her and displayed behavior that she said she'd never seen from him before ...
To make make matters worse, Alex' father (his savior ... the man who protected him) was about to die ... which would mean he would have to bear this burden alone ...
ALL OF THIS TOGETHER could really put a man in a very very precarious state of mind.
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@TheEricBland made a good point on the phone a little bit ago ... he questioned the appropriateness of Jim doing cross on SLED Agent Jeff Croft given that Jim was present for the interview of Alex in the car ...
He also questioned why Jim allowed Alex to sit for ANY of those interviews instead of putting law enforcement off (irrespective of AM's guilt or innocence) until after the funerals ... and why he let Alex sit for anything at all ...
Knowing that the husband is always the prime suspect ... knowing that anything Alex said could self-implicate ...
SUNDAY UPDATE: On Friday — one day after the Beach settlement hearing where PMPED's main man Johnny Parker, Palmetto State Bank and Greg Parker (the owner of Parker's gas stations) intervened and objected to the terms — Johnny sent the judge a letter ...
As you can see, this letter was written on Parker Law Group stationery (based on the font, are we're supposed to whisper the "law group" part?) but don't let the official nature of it fool you. This isn't a business matter, but rather a personal business matter for Johnny ...
As you can see, Johnny is letting the judge know that hey, the confession of judgment I got from Alex Murdaugh is NOT invalid (which is what the Beach attorneys argue) because contrary to what they told the judge, the confession came BEFORE the judge's receivership order ...
The third document is a letter from Jan Malinowski. "I don't believe Mr. Laffitte can authenticate this letter ... it's hearsay, your honor"
The judge just read the letter out loud (jury is not in room) and said "Are you sure you want this in? .... You can't commit a crime and ask to pay the money back" ...
Judge: "There are relevance issues here ... this is all 'after the fact'"
Tiffany Provence: "This is a document ... (laughs) ... well ..." and then she tells the court that the "conservator" petition Russell Laffitte had for Hakeem Pinckney had the words "personal representative" struck out with a line and "conservator" written over it ...
THIS was common from the petitions I saw in these cases. The petitions that allowed Russell to become PR or a conservator were a MESS ...
Provence says that attorneys "unfortunately" make mistakes on these forms "frequently" ... the message, I guess, being that the forms being so consistently janky is not necessarily a sign that anything nefarious was happening ...
What's annoying about this Tiffany Provence testimony is this: She is clearly VERY experienced in this area. But the fact that it isn't "unusual" or "unheard of" for conservators to behave the way Russell Laffitte did in the way of ...
Not always meeting his conservatees or taking the fees he did, she's overlooking the end and collective result of him having been involved in his conservatees' lives ...
Because he did not ask questions or act in their best interest, SIGNIFICANT money was misused or stolen ... so, to me, it doesn't matter that he took the fees he did (though it's gross) or that he didn't meet some of his conservatees (also gross) the money he ...