State Trooper says he has finally gotten money from Alex Murdaugh's former law firm - ABC NEWS 4
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCIV) — A South Carolina Highway Patrolman who claims he had a $100,000 injury settlement stolen by Alex Murdaugh now says he's finally gotten some of his money back from the disgraced attorney's former law firm.
Lt. Thomas Moore retained Murdaugh's legal services after being severely injured in a line-of-duty crash during a rare snow storm in January 2018.
The State Trooper says it wasn't until Alex Murdaugh's apparent years-long history of criminal schemings began coming to light in September 2021 that he learned Murdaugh had apparently stolen the six-figure settlement
Moore said in an exclusive interview with ABC News 4 recently he hadn't seen a dime of his settlement money since turning it over to Murdaugh in good faith two years after the crash.
That is until Wednesday, when Moore says Murdaugh's former law firm in Hampton, South Carolina, finally sent him an installment payment.
Documentation Moore provided shows the Peters, Murdaugh, Parker, Eltzroth & Detrick law firm sent him a check for $38,000, which is less than half of the original settlement total. Another $37,000 is being withheld until the resolution of a Workman's Compensation case with medical providers.
As for the rest of the settlement, Moore says the law firm initially tried to withhold a full third of the sum for attorneys fees. Now, Moore says PMPED has offered to instead reduce the attorney fees it will charge to 25 percent.
Moore says he intends to fight the law firm over those attorney fees, and get every cent signed over to him.
John E. Parker, president and longtime partner at PMPED, said Wednesday the firm will no longer be commenting publicly on the circumstances of Moore's case, citing attorney-client privilege.
Initially on Tuesday, Parker said Moore's portrayal of the law firm's action regarding the settlement money were not totally accurate, but said at the time he would look more into the matter.
Alex Murdaugh remains in jail without bond on over four-dozen charges related to fraud and money laundering schemes including and similar to the one he's accused of using against Moore. So far, prosecutors say they've found evidence Murdaugh stole upwards of $6.2 million from clients and colleagues over several years.
Murdaugh's own lawyers have acknowledge Murdaugh also remains a person of interest related to the murders of his wife and son, Maggie and Paul, at the family's Colleton County home in June 2021.
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