Alex Murdaugh to report to police on Thursday morning

Disgraced South Carolina lawyer Alex Murdaugh is considering surrendering to authorities on Thursday for allegedly attempting to commit insurance fraud, his lawyer said on Wednesday.

An arrest warrant was issued against his arrest on Tuesday and a bail hearing for Murdaugh is set for 4 p.m. Thursday at Hampton County Magistrates’ Court, his attorney, Jim Griffin, told the Post.

Murdaugh signed up for drug rehab earlier this month – two days after allegedly orchestrating his own roadside shootout in an attempt to leave his son with a $ 10 million insurance payment .

Curtis Edward Smitt, the man Murdaugh allegedly hired to shoot him in the botched plot, was arrested on Tuesday.

Smitt, a former Murdaugh client and suspected drug dealer, has been charged with assisted suicide, highly aggravated assault and battery, pointing and presenting a firearm, insurance fraud and conspiracy to commit insurance fraud, authorities said.

Murdaugh, whose wife and 22-year-old son were shot dead in June, is part of at least two other state inquiries.

Shortly after Peters, Murdaugh, Parker, Eltzroth & Detrick resigned on September 6, the South Carolina State Law Enforcement Division announced that it was investigating allegations that Murdaugh had stole money from his high-powered law firm.

Earlier Wednesday, the same agency opened an investigation into the death of Murdaugh’s longtime housekeeper Gloria Satterfield.

Satterfield, 57, died in February 2018 after “a trip-and-fall accident” at the family home, according to a new complaint filed by the housekeeper’s children.

More than three and a half years later, “the exact details of the fall remain unclear,” even for the governess’s sons and heirs, a Hampton County lawsuit said seeking unspecified damages.