A fundraiser for Hillary Clinton scheduled for Dec. 15th in Oxford, MS, at the home of plaintiffs attorney, Dickie Scruggs, has been cancelled, according to a MS Democratic State Executive Committee member.
Scruggs was indicted yesterday by a federal grand jury into allegations that he attempted to bribe a judge. Scruggs is brother-in-law to Sen. Trent Lott who recently announced his forthcoming resignation.
http://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/diarypage.php?did=5041
OXFORD (AP) A Dec. 15 fundraiser at the Oxford home of attorney Richard Dickie Scruggs for the presidential campaign of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and featuring former President Bill Clinton has been canceled, a campaign official said Thursday.
In light of new developments we have canceled the event, said Blake Zeff, a campaign spokesman.
Zeff did not elaborate on the announcement.
http://www.picayuneitem.com/local/local_story_334121353.html
trent lott’s brother in law, clinton fundraiser,
lead tobacco lawyer in the master-tobacco settlement
(estimated in 2000 to be over $206 BILLION)
centered in the texarkana courthouse,
was indicted yesterday for trying to bribe a state judge
in Katrina related insurance suit.
(one day after Lott’s resignation announcement)
during the tobacco litigation, officeholders included
president bill clinton
gov. g.w.bush (later president)
gov. mike huckabee (later candidate for president)
tx atty general morales (later convicted)
tx atty general cornyn (later senator)
ark atty general pryor (later senator)
So the strings might just reach the Hillary $....w/o the big tobacco donor $$ her crash and burn may be even more a possibility!!! This is ripe for that lawyer writer’s next book, unless he is involved too! LOL