Alex Murdaugh pleads not guilty to 22-count fraud indictment

Convicted killer Alex Murdaugh has pleaded not guilty to charges that he siphoned some $4 million from his dead housekeeper's life insurance settlement and defrauded his law partners and other clients for 16 years. Convicted killer Alex Murdaugh is due to appear in federal court on Wednesday The family's longtime housekeeper Gloria Satterfield died in February 2018 after appearing to suffer a fall on the stairs of the Murdaugh family home If convicted on all counts in the federal indictment, which includes charges of bank fraud, wire fraud, and money laundering, Murdaugh would face a total of up to 480 years in prison and fines of up to nearly $13 million. Prosecutors named banker Russell Laffitte, and Murdaugh's college buddy and suspended lawyer Cory Fleming as co-conspirators in the alleged fraud schemes Prosecutors said Murdaugh stole millions of dollars from clients and partners, and found himself teetering on financial disaster, which led him to fatally shoot his wife and son Murdaugh was convicted in March of murdering his 22-year-old son, Paul, and 52-year-old wife, Maggie, seen together center. Surviving son Buster stands left Fleming's guilty plea came a day after federal prosecutors charged Murdaugh with 22 financial crimes, accusing him of stealing money from the Satterfield family as well as other clients and committing bank and wire fraud.