#Money Laundering

Disbarred South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh, already accused of killing his wife and son, was indicted on multiple money laundering and computer crime charges, authorities said Friday. A grand jury indicted him on nine criminal counts, including two for money laundering of between $20,000 and $100,000, another count of money...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCIV) — Accused murderer and disgraced former attorney Alex Murdaugh has been charged with several new financial crimes, according to State Grand Jury indictments returned this week. Murdaugh, 52, is now charged with three more counts of obtaining property or signatures by false pretenses, two more counts...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A disbarred South Carolina attorney charged with killing his wife and son has been indicted on another round of financial crimes. This time, prosecutors said Alex Murdaugh stole $295,000 from his brother and the law firm founded by his prominent legal family a century ago. Murdaugh, 54, faces nine additional charges — four counts of obtaining property under false pretenses, three counts of money laundering and two counts of computer crimes — in indictments handed up by the State Grand Jury on Tuesday and released publicly Friday. Murdaugh is in jail set likely to stand trial in January on murder charges for the June 2021 shooting deaths of his wife Maggie, 52, and their 22-year-old son, Paul. They were killed with different guns outside one of the family’s homes in Colleton County, investigators said.

WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — Two Wichita brothers were in court today as a federal grand jury returned an indictment, charging them with engaging in an alleged health care fraud scheme that resulted in over $3.7 million in payments from Medicare and Tricare over a three-year period. The Department of Justice says that between 2017 and […]

A disbarred South Carolina attorney charged with killing his wife and son has been indicted on another round of financial crimes. This time, prosecutors said Alex Murdaugh stole $295,000 from his brother and the law firm founded by his prominent legal family a century ago. Murdaugh, 54, faces nine additional...

Disgraced South Carolina lawyer and accused murderer Richard “Alex” Murdaugh now faces an indictment for alleged fraud and money laundering crimes going back to when he was a partner at the law firm Peters, Murdaugh, Parker, Eltzroth, and Detrick, P.A. (PMPED). A Friday press release from S.C. Attorney...

The Florida Department of Law Enforcement served the manager of Don's Gun Shop in Pensacola with 129 felony charges Wednesday, according to an FDLE press release. John Floyd, 57, is charged with 41 counts of grand theft, 81 counts of petit theft, two counts of giving worthless checks, two counts of money laundering, one count of exploiting the elderly, one count of racketeering and one count of organized fraud. ...

An 84-year-old man has been sentenced to six years in jail for his role in a scam which stole more than a million dollars from an elderly Ventura widow. Prosecutors say Worthy Tobe Smith and an accomplice convinced the victim she had won a big financial prize, but that she needed to make payments first to get the money. They say over a two year period, Smith received 30 checks from the widow, totaling more than $1.4 million.

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Embattled former attorney Alex Murdaugh, who already faces numerous charges ranging from financial crime to murder, has been indicted for even more by a South Carolina grand jury. State Attorney General Alan Wilson announced on Friday that a state grand jury had issued new indictments against...

KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. — A Russian national suspected of carrying out the cyber attacks that crippled Sky Lakes Medical Center arrived in Portland for court this week. Denis Dubnikov pleaded not guilty to charges related to his involvement with an international cryptocurrency money laundering conspiracy. Dubnikov was arrested in...

A court date has been set for a Las Vegas man charged with fraud and money laundering after prosecutors said he submitted a fraudulent loan application to the Small Business Administration.

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (CBSDFW.COM) - Yeshmel James Wright, 35, of Dallas was arrested and charged with federal violations related to a conspiracy to use drones and mail to smuggle drugs and contraband into prison. Wright, who was already an inmate, appeared in federal court this week. If convicted, he faces up...

HAMPTON COUNTY, S.C. (WCBD) – Disbarred attorney Alex Murdaugh is facing a new round of indictments after prosecutors said he stole thousands from a law firm founded by his family. The new indictments, from a State Grand Jury out of Hampton County, accuse Murdaugh of taking money from the Peters, Murdaugh, Parker, Eltroz, and Detrick […]

KENNESAW, Ga. — A Cobb County man is heading to prison and will be handing over more than a million dollars after being convicted in a romance fraud scheme. Onovughe Ighorhiohwunu, 47 of Kennesaw, was convicted by a federal jury in Arizona of conspiring to commit money laundering and sentenced to 130 months in prison.

DUBAI, Aug 19 (Reuters) - U.S. citizen and civil rights attorney Asim Ghafoor has appealed to a United Arab Emirates court his conviction for money laundering, his lawyer said on Friday, a week after he was released from detention there and returned to the United States.

New indictments unsealed Friday against disbarred and jailed South Carolina attorney Richard “Alex” Murdaugh further allege theft from his own brother and the law firm his great-grandfather founded and names two more alleged accomplices in an intricate, decade-long web of criminal conspiracy that spanned the Lowcountry. S.C. Attorney...