Lawyer will cooperate in ["Dickie" Scruggs] bribe case

Associated Press ^ | December 5, 2007 | Holbrook Mohr

[Zakeet]

It is not good when your alleged co-conspirators cop a plea and agree to testify against you.

[Lurker]

Scruggs, a brother-in-law of Sen. Trent Lott, R-Miss., earned millions from asbestos litigation

Another collosal fraud perpetrated on the Courts....

L

[dixiechick2000]

Drive by Mississippi ping!

[flying Elvis]

I wonder how many Mississippi judges are laying awake at night, sweating that their names do not come up during the trial.

[rgboomers]

I have long thought mere skill with the written word, knowledge of the law, expertise in oratory, and polished court room skills were insufficient to earn the fees and win the cases as is so often done by high profile lawyers.

Perhaps, this case gives a clue as to how it is really done.

[flying Elvis]

If he was corrupt enough to bribe a judge, then he is certainly corrupt enough to bribe Mississippi legislators. I wonder whose campaigns he has contributed to over the years?

[Zakeet]

According to an old wise saying: A good lawyer knows the law. A great lawyer knows the judge.

[Nervous Tick]

>> I have long thought mere skill with the written word, knowledge of the law, expertise in oratory, and polished court room skills were insufficient to earn the fees and win the cases as is so often done by high profile lawyers.

NO MORE PERRY MASON RERUNS FOR YOU!

:-)

[Nervous Tick]

Oops... “insufficient” to earn, he said. My bad!

[petitfour]

What was the fraud? (clueless stay-at-home mom here)

[petitfour]

This doesn’t look good for the Scruggs family. I was looking at this Balducci guy’s website the other day when this story hit FR, and I was impressed with his love for Faulkner. But that is all. I suppose I should refrain from stating my other impressions publicly regarding him and his partners in his firm.

[WKB]

http://www.clarionledger.com/misc/blogs/ssalter/2007/11/does-scruggs-indictment-impact-house.html

[WKB]

Thanks for the ping

[flying Elvis]

Interesting. The comments by the moron dems are indicative of how Scruggs and company got away with it for so long, and probably will continue to get McCoy reelected.

[vetvetdoug]

All one has to do is follow the money donated to the legislators by the Trial Lawyer association in Mississippi. The Black Legislative Caucus and many Democrat legislators were the recipients of millions of dollars from the Trial Lawyer association in Mississippi. McCoy and Eric Parker of Senate District 2 are just two of them.

[Lurker]

The fraud was that the asbestos which was used in American buildings caused illness.

There is a type of asbestos which causes disease, but that type was never used in America.

That little fact didn't stop the trial lawyers, though.

L

[Islander7]

{There is a type of asbestos which causes disease, but that type was never used in America.}

Bravo Sierra!! My father died of asbestos caused cancer. I have 25 years as a respiratory therapist. I’ve seen a lot of very sick people suffer and die from asbestos related cancers.

Educate yourself!

http://www.mesorfa.org/

[Lurker]

My father died of asbestos caused cancer

You have definitive proof that the asbestos caused his cancer? Did he ever smoke or was he ever exposed to radon?

Educate yourself!

I have....

L

[wardaddy]

it will be hard to convict Scruggs

the others will be easy

what a mess they have all created these past 20 years with their torts extortions

[dixiechick2000]

I don’t know anything about Balducci, either.

Wait...I do now!
He loves Faulkner. ;o)