http://syn2.thecanadianpress.com:8080/mrss/feed/fcf7391a2f354311807f0501c16bde6a MSN - AP World Copyright © 2010-2018 The Canadian Press. All rights reserved. http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Tue, 13 May 2025 06:39:44 +0000 http://syn2.thecanadianpress.com:8080/mrss/feed/fcf7391a2f354311807f0501c16bde6a/358d5d5f33524cf49de821d106aa8703 358d5d5f33524cf49de821d106aa8703 Tue, 07 Feb 2023 21:05:02 +0000 SHOTLIST: RESTRICTION SUMMARY:++SOUNDBITES SEPARATED BY WHITE FLASH++POOLWalterboro, South Carolina - 7 February 20231. SOUNDBITE (English) Creighton Waters, South Carolina Attorney General's Office: "We're going to pick up on your story in a little bit, but you were saying that when Annette Griswold, around the time she brought you that Chris Wilson check that Alex's number, name on it. You also were bringing up and searching 'Forge' in your system and that's when you saw all these 'Fake Forge' checks. Correct?"2. SOUNDBITE (English) Jeanne Seckinger, CFO of Parker Law Group:  "That's correct."WATERS: "And you mentioned that you went and talked to some partners about it and that sort of thing."SECKINGER: "That's correct."++WHITE FLASH++3. SOUNDBITE (English) Jeanne Seckinger, CFO of Parker Law Group:  WATERS: "And you called it, quote, 'Fake Forge.' Why do you call it, 'Fake Forge?"SECKINGER: "Because there is a real Forge consulting. But this was a fake company that he set up to mimic and look like and designed to look like Forge."WATERS: "The real Forge, who's the main guy at the real Forge?SECKINGER: "Michael Gunn."WATERS: "And does this account right here in Alex Murdaugh's name have anything to do with the real Forge?"SECKINGER: "Absolutely none."STORYLINE:Jurors at Alex Murdaugh's double murder trial in South Carolina heard testimony from Jeanne Seckinger, the office manager and chief financial officer of the law firm Murdaugh's family founded more than a century ago.Murdaugh took money from legal settlements that were supposed to go to clients by routing it to a fake company that he created and that had a similar name to the company the law firm had intended to send it to, Seckinger said. The real company would have then dispensed the money to the firm's clients. The companies' similar names helped Murdaugh avoid detection, she testified.Seckinger said she confronted Murdaugh about almost $800,000 in missing law firm fees on the day of the killings. But during the conversation, Murdaugh found out doctors had told his father he would die within days. Murdaugh, 54, is standing trial in the shootings of his 52-year-old wife, Maggie, and 22-year-old son, Paul, on June 7, 2021, at their Colleton County home. He faces 30 years to life in prison if convicted of murder.===========================================================Clients are reminded: (i) to check the terms of their licence agreements for use of content outside news programming and that further advice and assistance can be obtained from the AP Archive on: Tel +44 (0) 20 7482 7482 Email: info@aparchive.com(ii) they should check with the applicable collecting society in their Territory regarding the clearance of any sound recording or performance included within the AP Television News service (iii) they have editorial responsibility for the use of all and any content included within the AP Television News service and for libel, privacy, compliance and third party rights applicable to their Territory. Witness: Alex Murdaugh stole millions from law firm clients