Newly unearthed Alex Murdaugh commercial ad video allegedly exploits former disabled client

Alex Murdaugh tin beryllium seen allegedly exploiting deceased erstwhile customer Hakeem Pinckney, from whom he allegedly stole up to $1 million, successful a video advertisement that came to ray Monday during Murdaugh's double murder trial.

Murdaugh, a erstwhile lawyer astatine his family's personal wounded rule firm, is accused of sidesplitting his woman and boy successful 2021 successful what prosecutors allege was a strategy to distract attraction distant from his financial crimes totaling an estimated $9 million. 

"We woody pinch truthful galore clients who, unfortunately, person suffered truthful galore catastrophic injuries and are incapable to spell astir moving astir nan measurement we return for granted. To beryllium capable to show a assemblage those things alternatively of telling nan assemblage astir them — nan use is unexplainable," Alex Murdaugh says successful nan 2021 advertisement for a instrumentality called "Legal Video Expert" featuring Pinckney, a now-deceased quadriplegic car clang victim. 

"There's perfectly nary amended instrumentality successful nan courtroom than to seizure that successful video," Murdaugh continues, adding that video grounds of individual wounded clients tin move a assemblage "to tears."

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The erstwhile South Carolina lawyer is accused of stealing costs from his clients, including Pinckney and his family, and utilizing them for individual expenses. 

"As Alex Murdaugh said, there's perfectly nary amended instrumentality successful nan courtroom than video, and this video conscionable proves what we each cognize — he is simply a unspeakable quality being," Justin Bamberg, an lawyer for respective victims of Murdaugh's embezzlement schemes, told Fox News Digital connected Monday. "Hakeem deserved better. Now Alex wants 12 jurors to disregard a video putting him astatine nan segment of nan execution of Maggie and Paul. Talk astir ironic."

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The allegations began to travel to ray successful nan outpouring and summertime of 2021 earlier Maggie Murdaugh and Paul Murdaugh were changeable to decease connected June 7 of that year.

This photograph shows Hakeem Pinckney, a deaf man whom Murdaugh represented aft he was rendered a quadriplegic successful a 2009 car crash.  (Justin Bamberg)

A May 2022 indictment alleges Russell Lafitte, erstwhile CEO of Palmetto State Bank, conspired pinch Murdaugh to misappropriate much than $309,000 successful funds being held successful spot for Pinckney and his property astatine Palmetto State Bank.

Hakeem; his mother, Pamela Pinckney; and his sister, Shaquarah Pinckney, were injured successful nan 2009 car clang that near Hakeem severely abnormal earlier his death.

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Murdaugh represented nan Pinckney family successful a suit against nan shaper of nan tires connected nan vehicle. A different lawyer represented Pinckney's property successful a wrongful decease suit aft he died astatine property 21 successful 2011.

Defendant Alex Murdaugh is cross-examined by charismatic Creighton Waters while testifying during his execution proceedings astatine nan Colleton County Courthouse successful Walterboro, S.C., Friday, Feb. 24, 2023. (Joshua Boucher/The State via AP)

In total, nan Pinckneys were entitled to betwixt $800,000 to $1 cardinal successful colony funds, but nan family ne'er received immoderate of nan money, Justin Bamberg antecedently told Fox News Digital.

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"To cognize that you put your spot and your accent successful personification who says they person your champion liking successful mind, and looks you successful your face, and tells you and your full family that they person your champion liking — that you sewage america 100 percent," Pamela Pinckney told FITSNews successful January 2022. "And past you spell and you bargain from us, moreover though you sewage paid done ineligible fees to activity nan case, past you move astir and you bargain connected apical of that from nan family. And my boy is deceased. That really it tears maine isolated virtually each day."

Fox News' Danielle Wallace contributed to this report.