Todd Graves Cops to Being Present at Second Mississippi Trailer Meeting
Based on the sworn testimony of Graves’ own client, during the second trailer meeting (at which Graves has already admitted having been in attendance) documents taken from State Farm were discussed and there’s a possibility that one of the computers used to access State Farm files was present at the meeting as well.
What are we supposed to think of Todd Graves now that we know this? Graves was in attendance, according to testimony, at a meeting in a trailer in Pascagoula, Mississippi along with Dick and Zach Scruggs –who have since pleaded guilty to crimes connected with bribing a judge– and with two women whom the Scruggs’s had paid $150,000 to get them confidential State Farm documents. At the meeting, also according to testimony, those documents were discussed for “several hours.”
And what ought we make of the curious fact that Graves himself doesn’t appear as one of the attorneys listed on the motion against disqualification filed yesterday by his firm? It is somewhat curious that the motion, in making a half-hearted case that Graves was not at the first trailer meeting in March 2006, relies upon “Mr. Graves’ records” in support of that point. The motion also submits that Graves would have been unable to be at the March 2006 meeting because he was “in the process of wrapping up the last of his official duties” –not because he was “at Disney world” as Graves has previously told the media. Was Graves unable or unwilling to be the one responsible for submitting these arguments to the court?
Troubling stuff. Though not so troubling, I’m certain, that some ambitious writer from the Kansas City Star won’t make a herculean effort to reassure me and every other member of the public that Todd Graves, notwithstanding all the facts, is a swell, upstanding guy.
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4/29/8
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