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Podcast: Law&Crime Sidebar
Episode: ‘I Trusted Him’: Alex Murdaugh’s $1M Theft Victim Speaks Out Against Disgraced Lawyer, Banker
Description: When Alania Spohn and her younger sister, Hannah Plyler, were involved in a crash that killed their mother and brother in 2005, they trusted Alex Murdaugh to represent them in a civil suit. They learned years later that he and his friend, Palmetto State Bank CEO Russell Laffitte, had allegedly used their settlement money to loan themselves money. The Law&Crime Network's Angenette Levy talks with Spohn and her lawyer, Eric Bland, about Murdaugh and Laffitte, testifying against Laffitte at his trial, and hearing Alex Murdaugh talk about them from the witness stand at his family murders trial....