AP confirms – Judicial bribery figure Balducci on house arrest

Ex-attorney found guilty with Dickie Scruggs, two others

The go-between in a judicial bribery case that brought down some of the most prominent attorneys in Mississippi has been put on home detention, a prison official said.

Former attorney Timothy Balducci, 42, was transferred late Friday from the federal prison at Estill, S.C., where he had been serving a 2-year sentence, to his home at New Albany, said D. Brown, an officer at the prison.

Balducci was trying to influence a judge in a legal dispute between lawyers who were fighting over $26 million in legal fees from a settlement of Hurricane Katrina cases.

AP
10/11/10