Convicted killer and disgraced attorney Alex Murdaugh has been sentenced on Monday to 40 years in federal prison for multiple fraud schemes to steal from his clients.

Murdaugh pleaded guilty in September 2023 to money laundering, wire fraud, and bank fraud.

Murdaugh, who had been previously sentenced to 27 years in state prison for a slew of financial crimes, including money laundering, breach of trust, and financial fraud, will run his federal sentence concurrently.

Murdaugh, a once prominent attorney in the South Carolina Lowcountry region, is currently serving two life sentences in state prison for the June 2021 murders of his wife Maggie, 52, and son Paul, 22.

The Associated Press reported that at the sentencing in a federal courthouse in Charleston, S.C., U.S. District Judge Richard Gergel said Murdaugh took advantage of “the most needy, vulnerable people,”

“They placed all their problems and all their hopes on Mr. Murdaugh, and it is from those people he abused and stole. It is a difficult set of actions to understand,” Gergel said.

Murdaugh, at sentencing, claimed that he was “filled with sorrow and am filled with guilt over the things that I did

“I do believe that my addiction contributed to me doing some of the things that I did

“And Judge Gergel, I hope with every cell of my existence, I hope that I will not have done what I did had I not been addicted to opioids.”

Murdaugh was also ordered to pay more than $8.7 million in restitution to his victims, including the family of his longtime housekeeper, Gloria Satterfield, who died in a mysterious trip and fall.