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July 2, 2008
CL – Zach Scruggs might appeal?
Younger Scruggs also going to jail The courtroom was packed with several people crying. His attorney, former Attorney General Mike Moore, said he has known Zach Scruggs since he was a small child. Moore recruited the elder Scruggs to negotiate Mississippi’s successful, groundbreaking lawsuit against the tobacco industry. “He’s very remorseful, very contrite and ashamed,”…
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July 2, 2008
ICLAWBLOG – Zach Scruggs gets 14 months prison time
Zach Scruggs gets 14 months prison time Here is a transcript of Zach Scruggs’ sentencing hearing, at the website of the Sun Herald, and you may note when you read it that Zach was represented by suspected Trailer Lawyer Todd Graves. (Unconfirmed rumors were that Graves arrived at the courthouse in a single-wide pulled by…
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July 2, 2008
WSJ LAWBLOG – Zach Scruggs Gets 14 Months, Though Gov’t Suggested Probation
Zach Scruggs Gets 14 Months, Though Gov’t Suggested Probation According to this report in the Daily Mississippian, Judge Biggers said even though Dickie was the primary actor in the case, Zach was fully aware of what was going on. “It was clear that not only did you know what was going on, you were participating…
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July 2, 2008
DM – Zach Scruggs sentenced to 14 months
Zach Scruggs sentenced to 14 months Zach Scruggs pleaded guilty to failure to report a conspiracy by his father and law partners to bribe Mississippi Circuit Court Judge Henry Lackey earlier this year. Biggers said even though Scruggs’s father was the primary actor in the case, Scruggs was fully aware of what was going on.…
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July 2, 2008
AP – Anti-tobacco lawyer’s son sentenced in bribe plan
Anti-tobacco lawyer’s son sentenced in bribe plan The son of anti-tobacco lawyer Richard “Dickie” Scruggs has been sentenced to 14 months in prison for knowing about a judicial bribery scandal and not reporting it to authorities. Zach Scruggs was sentenced Wednesday by the same federal judge who last week sent his father to prison for…
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July 2, 2008
SH – Zach Scruggs sentenced to 14 months
Headline goes here Zach Scruggs gets 14 months in prison for failing to report an attempt to influence a state court judge. His father, Dickie Scruggs, was sentenced to the maximum 5 years in prison Friday for conspiring to bribe the judge. U.S. District Judge Neal B. Biggers Jr. presided over the case. Sunherald.com will…
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July 2, 2008
FOLO – Zach Scruggs sentenced to 14 months
Zach Scruggs sentenced to 14 months Judge Biggers and Mike Moore had words (to the point that Judge Biggers told Mike Moore to quit interupting). The defense side was so unprepared for a sentence with jail time that Mike Moore stated to the court that they knew other defendants had asked for the court to…
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July 2, 2008
CL – Younger Scruggs also going to jail
Younger Scruggs also going to jail Although federal prosecutors recommended probation, U.S. District Judge Neal Biggers sentenced Zach Scruggs, 33, to 14 months in prison and fined him $250,000 for having after-the-knowledge of a scheme to bribe a Lafayette County judge to get a favorable ruling in a legal fees dispute. “I wish I could…
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July 2, 2008
DJ – Zach Scruggs gets 14 Months
Zach Scruggs: 14 months in prison Zach Scruggs, the 34-year-old scion of fallen plaintiffs’ attorney Richard “Dickie” Scruggs, will serve a 14-month prison term for failing to report that his father and others, including himself, were plotting to bribe a circuit judge. At a morning hearing, Senior Judge Neal Biggers Jr. sentenced the slender, blond-haired…
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July 2, 2008
FOLO – Judge Acker to Scruggs: “Are you talking to me“
Judge Acker to Scruggs: “Are you talking to me“ Which raises in my mind a serious question I have: Time and again, I see pleadings from these people that make me think: Are they trying to persuade anyone of anything? Just what is the point of this pleading they filed? I always thought the ultimate…
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July 2, 2008
Bush helps Wicker with fundraising
The Clarion-Ledger, 7/2/8 President Bush’s appearance in Jackson on Tuesday helped Republican Sen. Roger Wicker secure more money in one lunch than his political opponent raised from January through March. But Joe Parker, a professor of political science at the University of Southern Mississippi, said that $500,000 may not be enough to impact the heated…
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July 2, 2008
Session: Tangled mess for Barbour, lawmakers
The Clarion-Ledger Editorial, 7/2/8 Speaking to the state’s newspaper executives last week at the Mississippi Press Association annual convention, Gov. Haley Barbour left no doubt about his position on the Medicaid funding standoff – he’s preparing to cut Medicaid. Barbour supports Senate Bill 2013 that would institute a $167-per-day assessment, or tax, on state hospitals.…
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February 11, 2026
Magnolia Mornings: February 11, 2026
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Frank Corder
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February 10, 2026
Mississippi receives final approval for broadband infrastructure expansion plan
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Jeremy Pittari
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February 10, 2026
Lawmakers propose alternate return to work legislation for retired state employees
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Frank Corder
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February 10, 2026
Spartan Composites investing $49 million in Saltillo manufacturing facility
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February 6, 2026
Karman Space and Defense acquires Gulfport’s Seemann Composites, Material Sciences
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Frank Corder
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February 3, 2026
Siemens Energy investing up to $300 million in new high-voltage switchgear facility in Mississippi
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Susan Marquez
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February 11, 2026
Governor’s Arts Awards recognizes Mississippi arts culture bearers
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Alistair Begg
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February 11, 2026
The wisdom our world needs
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Meredith Biesinger
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February 10, 2026
Shaped by Hand: The heart behind Sumrall’s Coral Depot
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Samuel Gonzalez
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February 10, 2026
Education Savings Accounts recognize a simple truth: No two students are the same
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Kimberly Ross
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February 10, 2026
Walz ‘Civil War’ rhetoric irresponsible, absurd
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Grace Breazeale
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The Weight They Carry: Life as a teacher in Mississippi
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