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January 16, 2008
OVERLAWYERED – More about Joseph (“Joey”) Langston, part II
More about Joseph (“Joey”) Langston, part II As a number of commentators have noted (e.g. Brett Kittredge @ Majority in Mississippi, Alan Lange @ YallPolitics), Booneville attorney Joey Langston, who just entered a guilty plea on charges of judicial corruption, is someone accustomed to throwing the weight of his pocketbook around in Mississippi politics. In…
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January 16, 2008
CL – Probe’s reach grows wider
Probe’s reach grows wider Federal prosecutors pointed Tuesday toward political operative P.L. Blake as a behind-the-scenes figure in Mississippi’s unfolding judicial bribery scandal. Blake – who has not been indicted in the case – has emerged in court documents as the man who bizarrely earned $50 million from the state’s tobacco settlement by clipping newspapers…
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January 16, 2008
DJ – Scruggs case: Farese asks again for counsel change
Scruggs case: Farese asks again for counsel change Ashland attorney Tony Farese again is asking the U.S. District Court to withdraw as Oxford lawyer Zach Scruggs’ counsel. Scruggs is a co-defendant in a six-count federal indictment accusing him, his father Dickie Scruggs and others of trying to bribe a judge. Farese also is chief counsel…
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January 16, 2008
OVERLAWYERED – More about Joseph (“Joey”) Langston, part I
More about Joseph (“Joey”) Langston, part I Many commenters (as at David Rossmiller’s) have noted that Langston appears to have drawn an unusually favorable plea deal from federal investigators, who are granting him remarkably broad impunity as to uncharged offenses, and not even stipulating that he give up all ill-gotten funds. Presumably this signals that…
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January 16, 2008
WSJLAWBLOG – The Mess in Mississippi: Pregaming the Feds’ Strategy
The Mess in Mississippi: Pregaming the Feds’ Strategy Dickie’s son, Zach, who’s also indicted in the Lackey situation, has brought in a new lawyer: Todd Graves, who applied for pro hac vice status in the case yesterday. Todd Graves? Name sound familiar? Graves was one of the handful of U.S. attorneys reportedly forced out by…
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January 16, 2008
JJ – Patterson gave $2500 to Judge DeLaughter’s Re-election Campaign
Patterson gave $2500 to Judge DeLaughter’s Re-election Campaign The Mississippi Secretary of State’s website reveals that the following prominent lawyers donated money to Hinds County Circuit Court Judge Bobby Delaughter in his 2006 re-election campaign: Langston & Langston: $400 Steven Patterson: $2,500 Jackson Jambalaya 1/15/8
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January 16, 2008
DJ – Guilty pleas add fuel to Scruggs’ troubles
Guilty pleas add fuel to Scruggs’ troubles Langston’s attorney, Tony Farese of Ashland, described his longtime friend’s fall as “a tragedy of Shakespearean proportions.” “This is a loss to the Bar and to society as well,” he told the Daily Journal late Monday. “He accepts full responsibility for his conduct and is assisting the government…
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January 16, 2008
OE – Two Down . . . Three to Go
Two down, three to go. Steven A. Patterson pleaded guilty this morning at the U.S. District Court in Oxford for his role in an attempt to bribe a judge in a case against prominent trial attorney Richard “Dickie” Scruggs. Patterson pleaded guilty to one charge of conspiracy to bribe an elected official, which carries a…
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January 16, 2008
DJ – Patterson enters guilty plea in Miss. judicial bribery case
Patterson enters guilty plea in Miss. judicial bribery case “I never set out to corruptly bribe a judge,” Patterson told the court. “However, I do understand that once I joined it and the cat was out of the bag, I was a coconspirator.” NE MS Daily Journal 1/15/8
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January 16, 2008
FOLO – Rumblings [UPDATED]
Rumblings [UPDATED] I was not able to take the document home. They just let me look at it and write it down. Having to be in another courtroom in 15 minutes, I wrote fast and furious. Some things have been left out. Some things are ineligible in my notes. An AP reporter read the report…
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January 15, 2008
YP – When will Hood refund campaign contributions?
Now that it has come out that former State Auditor Steve Patterson and former Special Assistant Attorneys General Tim Balducci and Joey Langston have pleaded guilty to federal bribery charges, when will our “tough as nails” former DA turned AG Jim Hood refund their campaign contributions? Hood took $100,000 from the Democratic Attorneys’ General Association…
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January 15, 2008
FOLO – Jones, Funderburg v. Scruggs: Judge rules no to arbitration AT THIS TIME
Jones, Funderburg v. Scruggs: Judge rules no to arbitration AT THIS TIME The court ruled that ordinarily, the case would go to arbitration, that the prior actions by the Scruggs defendants (which was ignoring the Jones demands for arbitration) were not sufficient to waive arbitration, but that the Jones motion for sanctions (which argued that…
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