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Wed Nov-28-07 08:53 PM
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| Trent Lott's nephew and other relative indicted |
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From WLBT
Dickie Scruggs and Four Others Indicted
A federal grand jury has indicted prominent attorneys Richard "Dickie" Scruggs and several other attorneys on criminal charges of trying to bribe a state court judge in a civil case.
The indictment also charges two other attorneys in Scruggs law firm, his son Zack Scruggs and Sidney Backstrom, with conspiracy. It says they conspired with another lawyer, Timothy Balducci and former state auditor Steve Petterson to bribe Circuit Judge Henry Lackey with $40,000 to enter an order in a lawsuit favorable to the Scruggs law firm.
In that suit, Jones versus Scruggs, the lawyers were fighting over how to split more than $26 million dollars in attorney's fees.
The suit claimed that Scruggs was withholding fees in a Katrina insurance ligation. That suit was assigned to Judge Lackey in the 3rd Circuit District which encompasses Oxford and Lafayette.
Judge Lackey was cooperating with the FBI's Public Integrity Section in a scheme that began in March and ended a few weeks ago when the Judge received the payoff.
Both Scruggs and their lawyer were in Federal Court in Oxford this afternoon.
Just yesterday, the FBI seized a computer hard drive from the Scruggs law firm in Oxford.
Dickie Scruggs brother-in-law is Senator Trent Lott who just announced on Monday, his plans to retire from the U.S. Senate.
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Wed Nov-28-07 08:58 PM
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| AnnieBW
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Wed Nov-28-07 08:59 PM
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Why Lott's leaving the Senate
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| L. Coyote
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Wed Nov-28-07 09:00 PM
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| 3. First it's raining, then it pours for Sen. Lott this week! |
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Wed Nov-28-07 09:02 PM
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Is that his name or a description?
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Thu Nov-29-07 08:51 PM
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| 7. It's like this guy in the army named Major Folly. |
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Thu Nov-29-07 10:21 AM
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| 5. Katrina insurance litigation = $26,000,000 ?????? |
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unGodly profiting from Katrina and they can't even agree on how to divide the spoils without bribing a judge??? Fucking criminals, all of them!!!!!
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Thu Nov-29-07 08:26 PM
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| 6. I love the sound of shoes dropping....wait for it....There's gotta be more! |
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Dickie Scruggs?!
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It's like this guy in the army named Major Folly. 
