Alex Murdaugh, the disgraced South Carolina lawyer who is already serving life in prison for killing his wife and son, was sentenced on April 1 to 40 years in prison for nearly two dozen charges related to stealing millions of dollars from vulnerable clients.
The federal sentence, which also orders Mr. Murdaugh to pay more than $8.7 million in restitution to his financial victims, can be served at the same time as the 27-year sentence that he is already serving as part of a plea deal in a South Carolina state court.
