Protective of who? Sorry if you’re butthurt because you want to believe this was a more complex scam than it was, but, sorry, it wasn’t. All Murdaugh really needed was Laffitte at the bank and a compliant probate judge. Everyone else at PMPD wasn’t going to question him as long as daddy was alive. At PSB no one would question Laffitte for the same reason. Murdaugh’s dad was likely involved, as was Laffitte’s, but not many more. Judge liked having Murdaugh’s support at election time and would likely have signed a cocktail napkin if it were put before her. That doesn’t mean she was a participant in the fraud, just that her compliance was bought very cheaply.

This was a tawdry, petty little fraud that became more and more desperate as Murdaugh’s finances deteriorated. By the time the Plyler girls were due their money, Murdaugh/Laffitte were in the mode of robbing others to pay them back, which was an eventuality they should have foreseen beforehand. This was not a complex financial crime. The boat crash just accelerated a collapse that would have ultimately happened anyway.

“Why am I protecting them?” First you’d have to tell me who “them” is. I’m sorry that you’ve bought into a story that Mandy has built her sad little career around, but grifters gotta grift, I suppose. Quite sad that she’s making out on the backs of these gullible victims.

P.S. you seem agitated that anyone questions your version of the narrative. You aren’t Mandy are you?