Alex Murdaugh’s First Fraud Trial to Begin November 27

Convicted murderer Alex Murdaugh’s attorneys tried to persuade a South Carolina judge to delay the disbarred attorney’s multiple financial fraud trials but failed to convince Judge Clifton Newman of the necessity. Newman set the first of the trials for November 27 in Beaufort County, the case relating to Murdaugh’s siphoning of a $4.3 million settlement …