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Plaintiff lawyer gets five years for bribery


Posted on Aug 13, 2008

            Mississippi plaintiff lawyer Dickie Scruggs was sentenced Friday to five years in prison for conspiring to bribe a judge.  Scruggs intended to offer the money to the judge for help in a dispute over $26.5 million in legal fees claimed from mass insurance settlements following the Hurricane Katrina disaster.

             Scruggs was indicted in November 2007 together with his son and a law partner after the judge reported the bribery approach and an associate lawyer wore wiretap equipment for the FBI.  The group plead guilty in March.  The planned payment to a Mississippi county circuit court judge was to be $50,000.

             Scruggs came to national and even international fame as one of the lead lawyers in the 1998 global settlement between the state Attorneys General and the tobacco industry.  Scruggs and colleagues in Mississippi were awarded $1.43 billion in fees for their work in the 1998 tobacco settlement.

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