Posted on 11/28/2007 3:08:07 PM PST by WKB
(Dickie) Scruggs arrested on bribery charges
Once again proves that anyone who thinks “The Devil’s Advocate” is a work of fiction hasn’t spent much time around lawyers.
Well, I can understand why Trent resigned after pondering Ecclesiastes and having family over for Thanksgiving. Makes perfect sense. And maybe the preacher at FBC Jackson was in the know about what was coming down the pike for Trent’s bil. You know the way things are in power circles in Mississippi. You may as well be in the smallest town in the state. Word gets around fast. And then again, the Spirit works in mysterious ways . . .
You take care of your lady bug problem yet? I’m going to have to disassemble this keyboard and clean it. We seem to spill a lot of tea and diet coke in this thing. It’s not like we have a cheap keyboard. Hubby has to have an ergonometric keyboard that costs up the wazoo. But we have nine children who are magnets for liquid spills in keyboards. I’ll probably find a bag of chips crunched in here . . .
I like my Father in-laws expression better.
We were so poor our Momma cut holes in our pockets so we had something to play with.
Bullcart, look at the Dem's, Bill's brother, Jimmy's brother, Hillery's brother.
Lott fell on the sword and payed the consequences.
Apparent coward that he is.
One hell of a banjo player!
Could be, but I still think the lure
of big lobbyist $$$ is calling him.
He's a scumbag trial lawyer who raked in a billion dollars from the tobacco settlement. He's now extorting insurance companies over Katrina.
The feds always base their jurisdiction in these cases on mail fraud (something in the case was mailed) or on wire fraud (use of interstate phone calls, faxes, emails or bank wire transfers).
It's virtually impossible to do any business transaction-- legitimate or otherwise-- without using the mails or "interstate wires."
Maybe he has plans to take over his bil’s firm when the bil goes to prison.
Sounds more profitable than being a lobbyist.
I understand. But Scruggs and the Judge are in the same town, Oxford. And it seems to me that Scruggs et al. surely would have been smart enough to know that they should approach the Judge only in person -- never over the phone or via post.
Yes, but some document in the case in which the judge was bribed will have been mailed.
I think it would be whole lot easier
to schmooze your former political
buddies at lunches, dinners, trips,
pushing your client’s good/services/needs
than practicing law .. LOL
I’ll bring the rope!!!
LLS
Maybe it was obstruction of justice.
LLS
He is facing 75 years in prison and a 1.5 mil fine... and rumor is that the IRS is sniffing around.
LLS
I just read the indictment (PDF link at the top of the Clarion-Ledger website). They’re charging him and his son (sweet little Zach, for whom I babysat many years ago) with conspiracy, wire fraud, and bribery. The bribery is a federal crime when the “bribee” is a local government that receives federal funds. This is really some pretty serious heavy-duty stuff here. There were rumors that Scruggs was just as guilty as Paul Minor in the last judicial bribery case tried by the feds, but that he skated because of some shady deal involving Mike Moore (too complicated to go into here). Look for him to mount a vigorous defense and try to go after his accusers.
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