I’d like to see a photo of Mr. Blake.
Also, there was a much longer article on this subject in The Clarion Ledger earlier in the week, maybe Sunday. I didn’t post it because it was the C-L, and they have such painful posting rules. I knew someone would eventually pick up the story.
from individual.com
“As for Blake, he beat charges 20 years earlier that he conspired to pay off bank officers in exchange for loans. Scruggs helped Blake through that difficult time, loaning Blake money — $10,000 and then $15,000 a month — before the tobacco cases paid off. “