Alex Murdaugh Sentenced to 27 Years in Prison for Financial Crimes

Alex Murdaugh Sentenced to 27 Years in Prison for Financial Crimes
Alex Murdaugh talks with his attorneys Dick Harpootlian, (L), and Jim Griffin during his sentencing for stealing from 18 clients, at the Beaufort County Courthouse in Beaufort, S.C., on Nov. 28, 2023. Andrew J. Whitaker/Pool/The Post And Courier via AP
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For years, South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh looked his anguished clients in the eyes and promised to help them with their medical bills, their suffering or simply to survive. Then he stole some, if not all, of what he won for many of them.

Those clients got to look Murdaugh in the eye Tuesday and tell him how he had destroyed their trust, as the disgraced lawyer was sentenced to 27 years in prison for stealing about $12 million.