Originally published at: Probate judge among those accused of looting dead man's house | Boing Boing
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There you have it. All salt-of-the-earth, church attendin’ good country folks, Jesus-lovin’, helpin’ out their neighbors, sharin’ the family recipes, etc.
Oh, and also stealin’ from a newly dead person!
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Santa’s bringing indictments for Xmas to those assholes.
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Family values. Take from those who no longer have families and give to those who do.
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Probate courts are a fertile field for community investigators and hometown journalists to dig into. My boss’s family got their land via a forged will. His first cousin was convicted of embezzlement and sentenced to two years in prison plus restitution. She never served a day and did her time in the county lockup with time out when she wanted it. The family’s response was to run a second cousin for probate judge. Luckily, he was defeated. I shudder to think of their next scam.
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My Dad would talk about a WWI vet bachelor who lived next door to him in the 1950’s. After he passed away without family, the house with all his belonging remained boarded up for several years, and then over time it was looted. He even noticed some of the guy’s furniture magically show up in other neighbor’s homes. It is kind of ghoulish to me.
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The “newly-appointed” judge asked for a jury trial.
I bet most jurors in that county are friends, and if not, might be getting some perks before the trial date.
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Small town officials get away with all sorts of corrupt crap, up to and including murder. (I have family in a small town where someone got mysteriously blown up, a local official was a clear suspect, and… absolutely nothing happened.)
All the people in small towns smugly talking about their values and how they’re so unlike big cities, where no one looks out for each other… yeah, it’s total crap.
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Lynch nailed it.
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… and there’s this:
excerpt: On Thursday, Murdaugh [a “prominent” South Carolina lawyer] was charged with taking insurance settlements meant for the sons of his housekeeper, who died more than two years ago. A lawsuit filed by the sons said Murdaugh took more than $4 million in that case.
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It shouldn’t be that difficult to succeed in arguing for a change in venue… maybe.
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For the wife’s sake…
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by “prominent”, they mean this sort of thing.
When residents across a broad swath of South Carolina’s rural low country first elected a chief prosecutor 101 years ago, they turned to Randolph Murdaugh, elevating him from a one-man law practice to one of the region’s most powerful law enforcement offices. It was the beginning of a legal dynasty: For more than eight decades, until 2006, three generations of the Murdaugh family prosecuted crime across five counties and 3,200 square miles.
It’s a big closet, and they’ve been filing skeletons in there for many a decade.
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Beyond evil.
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I wonder if it is even feasible for a politician to run on an ‘anti-corruption’ platform any more & have a good chance of winning.
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Gods, that story keeps unfolding. There’s (at least) five deaths of people connected to the guy or his son in recent years, in addition to a bunch of other criminal activity now coming to light. It all came to a head about the time he (apparently) tried to convince an acquaintance to murder him. It’s unclear if he’s now suspected of killing the housekeeper and then defrauding her children of the insurance money, or just took advantage of her accidental death. What’s clear is that he got away with whatever all he did because a number of other people went along with him violating procedure because of who he was.
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Same here, only in my hometown it was a girl (16 or 17 yo) disappeared and the last person she’d been seen with was a local official’s son. One of the creepiest things is knowing people there, some of them, must’ve known what happened and we just lived amongst them all those years…
Glad I got out of there.
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