SC lawyers who helped take millions from Murdaugh victim’s children now paying the price

The Badger family in Allendale County, South Carolina, is nearing some positive news after suffering tragedies on top of tragedies since Jan. 28, 2011. That’s the day Donna Hay Badger, 35, died in a collision with a UPS truck, leaving Arthur Badger Jr. as a single father of six. His attorney negotiated a multi-million dollar settlement in 2012 to ease the financial burden. But that attorney was Alex Murdaugh, who quietly stole more than $1.3 million of that settlement along with former Palmetto State Bank CEO Russell Laffitte.

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