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NPR – How a $50K bribe led to Dickie Scruggs Downfall

By: Magnolia Tribune - June 29, 2008

How a $50K bribe led to Dickie Scruggs Downfall

A $50,000 bribe has landed one of America’s top tort lawyers in prison. Mississippi-native Dickie Scruggs was sentenced Friday to five years behind bars. Journalist Peter J. Boyer, who profiled Scruggs in the May 19th issue of The New Yorker magazine, discusses the case.

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