tax evasion

Alex Murdaugh may be serving a life sentence for killing his wife and son, but the legal system is far from done with him. As he sat in a South Carolina prison cell this week, Murdaugh's lawyers dealt with several problems. They told an insurer looking to force him to repay more than $3 million it awarded in a wrongful death settlement for Murdaugh housekeeper Gloria Satterfield that he lied about the circumstances of her death in a fall. His chief defenders in his murder case asked a judge to release an additional $160,000 from his retirement account to pay for his appeal. They say his six-week murder trial exhausted the $600,000 they have already been given.

A grand jury in South Carolina has indicted Alex Murdaugh on nine counts of tax evasion Friday. That brings the total number of charges to more than 100 against the disgraced attorney who's also accused of killing his wife and son. Prosecutors say the 54-year-old Murdaugh made more than $14 million as a lawyer over the course of nine years. But he's also accused of stealing nearly $7 million from his law firm at the same time.