The thing that bothers me about plea deals is that the whole story is never told. It seems to me that Mr. Scruggs must fear for someone dear’s life in order for him to take the deal. I’d like to know who he is protecting besides himself. I want to know how many judges he has bribed and how many judges in how many states are involved. How many fed judges?
One part of this story which is probably going to be safely buried forever more is the guy (who would appear to be a bagman, forget his name) to whom Scruggs has agreed to pay 50 million for his vague, undescribed cloakroom-rumor consultations in the tobacco case.
Scruggs apparently screws over every single law firm he can when it comes to fees, but went to extraordinary lengths to pay this guy more than entire firms made in years of work, yet neither of them can explain what he did for scruggs.