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(Dickie) Scruggs arrested on bribery charges
Clarion Ledger \link only | 11-28-07

Posted on 11/28/2007 3:08:07 PM PST by WKB

(Dickie) Scruggs arrested on bribery charges


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; US: Mississippi
KEYWORDS: dickiescruggs; katrinafraud; lawyers; lott; scruggs
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To: bpjam
This is a very good read about these fat cats and their money games, and their $50 million jets.


21 posted on 11/28/2007 3:27:56 PM PST by Dumpster Baby ("Hope somebody finds me before the rats do .....")
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To: gridlock

Once again proves that anyone who thinks “The Devil’s Advocate” is a work of fiction hasn’t spent much time around lawyers.


22 posted on 11/28/2007 3:35:18 PM PST by lapster
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To: WKB

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 . . .


23 posted on 11/28/2007 3:35:24 PM PST by petitfour
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To: Enchante
"Ask Dickie Scruggs about his upbringing, and he says, smiling, “We were so poor that if I hadn’t been a boy, I wouldn’t have had anything to play with.”

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.

24 posted on 11/28/2007 3:52:31 PM PST by #1CTYankee (That's right, I have no proof. So what of it??)
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To: Lancey Howard
"Well, I guess this explains Lott's sudden resignation."

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.

25 posted on 11/28/2007 3:57:07 PM PST by #1CTYankee (That's right, I have no proof. So what of it??)
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To: Eva

One hell of a banjo player!


26 posted on 11/28/2007 3:59:18 PM PST by Jagman (I drank Frank Rabelais under the table!)
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To: WKB
Excellent news! But could some lawyer out there please explain: Assuming they didn't use the federal postal system, why is it a federal crime if Scruggs et al. tried to bribe a state judge?
27 posted on 11/28/2007 4:03:39 PM PST by Hawthorn
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To: Lancey Howard

Could be, but I still think the lure
of big lobbyist $$$ is calling him.


28 posted on 11/28/2007 4:06:12 PM PST by STARWISE (They (Dims) think of this WOT as Bush's war, not America's war-RichardMiniter, respected OBL author)
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To: Eva
who is Dickie Scruggs?

He's a scumbag trial lawyer who raked in a billion dollars from the tobacco settlement. He's now extorting insurance companies over Katrina.

29 posted on 11/28/2007 4:08:55 PM PST by JoeGar
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To: Hawthorn
But could some lawyer out there please explain: Assuming they didn't use the federal postal system, why is it a federal crime if Scruggs et al. tried to bribe a state judge?

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."

30 posted on 11/28/2007 4:09:37 PM PST by Lurking Libertarian (Non sub homine, sed sub Deo et lege)
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To: STARWISE
“big lobbyist $$$ is calling him.”

Maybe he has plans to take over his bil’s firm when the bil goes to prison.

Sounds more profitable than being a lobbyist.

31 posted on 11/28/2007 4:13:42 PM PST by dalereed
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To: Lurking Libertarian
> It's virtually impossible to do any business transaction-- legitimate or otherwise-- without using the mails or "interstate wires." <

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.

32 posted on 11/28/2007 4:15:22 PM PST by Hawthorn
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To: WKB
There is not a jury in the entire state of Mississippi that hasn’t already been bought off by Scruggs; they will play hell making any charges stick.
33 posted on 11/28/2007 4:15:32 PM PST by vetvetdoug
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To: Hawthorn
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.

34 posted on 11/28/2007 4:18:10 PM PST by Lurking Libertarian (Non sub homine, sed sub Deo et lege)
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To: dalereed

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


35 posted on 11/28/2007 4:25:44 PM PST by STARWISE (They (Dims) think of this WOT as Bush's war, not America's war-RichardMiniter, respected OBL author)
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To: WKB

I’ll bring the rope!!!

LLS


36 posted on 11/28/2007 4:26:40 PM PST by LibLieSlayer (Support America, Kill terrorists, Destroy dims!)
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To: Hawthorn

Maybe it was obstruction of justice.


37 posted on 11/28/2007 4:27:09 PM PST by enots
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To: WKB
I think the media should ask hildebeast about her fundraiser at his home last week in Oxford!

LLS

38 posted on 11/28/2007 4:27:45 PM PST by LibLieSlayer (Support America, Kill terrorists, Destroy dims!)
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To: bpjam

He is facing 75 years in prison and a 1.5 mil fine... and rumor is that the IRS is sniffing around.

LLS


39 posted on 11/28/2007 4:28:48 PM PST by LibLieSlayer (Support America, Kill terrorists, Destroy dims!)
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To: LibLieSlayer; WKB; All

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.


40 posted on 11/28/2007 4:31:45 PM PST by pollyg107
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