Alex Murdaugh sentenced to 40 years for financial crimes after polygraph controversy
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Disgraced South Carolina lawyer Alex Murdaugh was sentenced to 40 years Monday in federal court. Murdaugh previously pleaded guilty to 22 federal financial crimes in September 2023.
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"I do want you to know and all of the victims to know I am filled with sorrow. I am filled with remorse. I am filled with guilt," Murdaugh said Monday.
Murdaugh, 55, is already serving a life sentence for fatally shooting his wife, Maggie, and youngest son, Paul, in June 2021 on their family's hunting estate in Colleton County. Prosecutors argued that their murders were an attempt to distract from Murdaugh's mounting financial crimes, which were beginning to come to light around that time.