https://www.fitsnews.com/2022/01/19...mother-devastated-by-alex-murdaughs-betrayal/
Ten years after her 21-year-old son
Hakeem Pinckney suddenly died, his mother
Pamela Pinckney is dealing with another stage of grief she never anticipated — betrayal.
In the last month,
Pamela Pinckney has been made aware that her former attorney
Alex Murdaugh allegedly stole nearly
$1 million from her family during the worst time of her life. She spoke with FITSNews about how devastated she was to learn that her attorney — someone she trusted to handle both her son Hakeem’s car accident case and his wrongful death case — stole from her family when they knew how much Hakeem suffered.
“The way I feel now is like when my son just passed away and I’m just going through the motions all over again. That’s just how deep the pain is,” Pamela said. “But it’s two times harder, because I’m going through it a second phase again. I never thought I would have to relive this again.”
Attorney
Justin Bamberg, who is representing at least eight victims Alex Murdaugh allegedly stole from, has been peeling back the layers in the Pinckney case since he was hired as their attorney in December.
In 2009, Pamela Pinckney and her son were in a horrific car accident that left them both with catastrophic injuries. Her son, Hakeem Pinckney, a deaf man who was a recognized athlete at the South Carolina School for the Deaf and Blind, suffered atrocious injuries in the crash that paralyzed him from the neck down and made him dependent on a ventilator.
Hakeem’s mother hired PMPED attorney
Lee Cope to handle a wrongful death claim against Pruitt Health-North Augusta on her behalf.
Alex Murdaugh appeared to be involved in the wrongful death lawsuit, according to documents obtained by FITSNews. The documents show that Alex’s office staff prepared all the requests for documentation and did it in his name, not Lee’s name.
Pamela Pinckney told FITSNews that she filed the lawsuit not to get money, but to get answers for her son’s death. She never got that.
“Up until this day, they have never really told me what happened to my son,” Pinckney said.
While the order approving the wrongful death settlement was signed in 2016, it was filed only last week in the Aiken County public index after Bamberg began asking questions about the case.
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