Alex Murdaugh Hit With 40-year Sentence for Federal Financial Crimes

Alex Murdaugh, the disgraced South Carolina lawyer convicted of killing his wife and son, received a 40-year prison sentence on April 1. He had pled guilty last year to nearly two dozen charges related to stealing millions of dollars from vulnerable clients. The federal sentence, which also orders Mr. Murdaugh to pay more than $8.7 million in restitution to his financial victims, can be served at the same time as the 27 years he is already serving as part of his plea deal in a South Carolina state court. The 55-year-old disbarred attorney is serving life without parole in state prison after a jury found him guilty of murder in the shootings of his wife and younger son....