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December 2, 2007
Dickie Scruggs Is in a Heap of Trouble, But Did the Government Charge the Right Crimes?
Dickie Scruggs Is in a Heap of Trouble, But Did the Government Charge the Right Crimes? The conspiracy charge is the key here, because the tape recording is hearsay as to Scruggs and the other defendants not present, except that statements by one conspirator in furtherance of the conspiracy — which this certainly is —…
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December 2, 2007
CL EDITORIAL – Katrina lawsuits: Coast victimized again?
Katrina lawsuits: Coast victimized again? Scruggs and his son, Zach, former State Auditor Steve Patterson and attorneys Sidney Backstrom and Timothy Balducci were indicted Wednesday on allegations they paid a judge $40,000 in exchange for ruling in favor of Scruggs in a $26.5 million legal fees dispute. His lawyer, Joey Langston of Booneville, said Scruggs…
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November 30, 2007
FBI probe in judicial bribe case to continue
FBI probe in judicial bribe case to continue Legal experts say if Balducci was referring to cases beyond Katrina, it could potentially affect those cases. The federal case could hinge on the credibility of Balducci, who allegedly gave the judge a $40,000 bribe and allegedly was repaid by Dickie Scruggs, said Carl Tobias, a professor…
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November 30, 2007
Will Dickie Scruggs roll over on bigger fish?
It is hard to imagine the kind of leverage the Feds now have on Dickie Scruggs. They’ve indicted his son. They have his co-conspirator on tape. They have physical evidence (the jury consultant agreement and $40,000 check) in hand. There is rumor that Balducci got pulled over earlier and has already started to sing. But…
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November 30, 2007
Bribery charge: Reads like a Grisham novel
The Clarion-Ledger Editorial, 11/30/7 The bribery charges against multimillionaire lawyer Dickie Scruggs and four others reads like it came out of the fertile mind of another Oxford lawyer: John Grisham. But could Grisham, known for his blockbuster novels with courtroom settings, have even come up with something so bizarre? As fiction, who would believe it?…
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November 30, 2007
A lot hinges on timing in resignation of U.S. Sen. Trent Lott
The Clarion-Ledger Editorial, 11/30/7 But now, in his utterly surprising move to give up one of the state’s highly-valued Senate seats, Trent seems back on his game of only making closely calculated career moves. My instincts tell me Trent is pulling a two-pronged maneuver: First, like baseball’s classic Tinker to Evers to Chance double play…
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November 30, 2007
Mississippi Senate Race: Pickering or Wicker vs. Moore?
Southern Political Report, 11/30/7 The latest word out of the Magnolia State is that Gov. Haley Barbour (R) is like to pick either US Rep. Chip Pickering (R) or US Rep. Roger Wicker (R) to succeed Minority Whip Trent Lott (R) as the next US Senator from Mississippi. On the Democratic side, the scuttlebutt is…
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November 30, 2007
Lott eyes career as lobbyist
The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, 11/29/7 Sen. Trent Lott reportedly is weighing a new career as a lobbyist, perhaps with former colleague John Breaux of Louisiana. Wednesday, The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times reported Breaux’s intentions to leave the firm of Patton Boggs LLP to form his own firm with his son, John Jr.…
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November 30, 2007
Tempers still raw after fractious Republican debate
Reuters, 11/29/7 Tempers were raw between rival Republican presidential candidates Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney on Thursday after a lively debate that included what the Romney camp called a nasty attack by Giuliani. The two candidates — Giuliani ahead in national polls and Romney leading in the two early voting states of Iowa and New…
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November 30, 2007
And yet still more on the Scruggs indictment
And yet still more on the Scruggs indictment Who was the “insider” in the FBI’s investigation of the alleged Scruggs bribery conspiracy? I think I’ve got the question right: who, rather than if. If you read the indictment and see the verbatim quotes of statements made to Judge Lackey, you have to conclude he was…
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November 30, 2007
The Dickie Scruggs Scandal
A Call to Arms by Alan Lange
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November 30, 2007
Dickie Scruggs at the eye of a storm
Katrina lawyer at the eye of a storm “It just boggles the mind,” said Jack Denton, a trial attorney in Biloxi, Miss. “Here is a man who has had an enormous amount of success, who reached a level very few attorneys, if any, have reached. Why would he risk everything over a legal dispute over…
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September 25, 2026
Supreme Court lets Trump administration use revamped federal voter eligibility database for now
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September 25, 2026
A&W Custom Furniture expanding in Okolona, adding 20 jobs
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Frank Corder
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September 24, 2026
England-based SubSea Craft expanding operations, locating U.S. facility on Mississippi Coast
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Cass Rutledge
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September 23, 2026
Raybern Foods expansion in Shannon bringing 70 new jobs to area
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September 18, 2026
Industrial Timber expanding its Ripley operations with $2.6 million investment
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Susan Marquez
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September 25, 2026
Journey to Colonial Mississippi: An America 250 Celebration
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September 25, 2026
Promised provision
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September 24, 2026
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September 23, 2026
Midterm elections in Mississippi shaping up as a familiar exercise in black-and-white
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The war on women’s spaces has reached the sorority house
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