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January 7, 2009
NMC – Ed Peters day kicks off Scruggs II (summarizing a confusing day of posts)
Ed Peters day kicks off Scruggs II (summarizing a confusing day of posts) The drama started first thing with WLBT in Jackson reporting that Ed Peters had surrendered his law license. As we noted in an update to the post reporting the WLBT account, YallPolitics quickly put up the docket entry from the Mississippi Supreme…
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January 7, 2009
SALTER – Bryant to face growing scrutiny from within GOP right wing
Bryant to face growing scrutiny from within GOP right wing While still maintaining an extremely cordial public relationship with the Barbour administration, it’s undeniable that Bryant faces the delicate task of slowly beginning to cut Barbour loose and push his own political agenda in the Senate if he is to seize the mantle of leadership…
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January 7, 2009
Metro area has money wish list
Metro area has money wish list Here’s the breakdown of state and federal requests: Jackson The city is asking for about $560 million from the federal government for infrastructure projects but so far has a lone item on its state wish list. The city wants the option to raise the sales tax by 1 percent.…
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January 7, 2009
Councilman: Mayor has fluid in his lungs
Councilman: Mayor has fluid in his lungs Mayor Frank Melton returned to the hospital over the weekend after complaining that fluid had built up in his lungs, making it difficult to breathe, Councilman Frank Bluntson said Tuesday. Bluntson, along with Melton’s family physician, Dr. Robert Smith, drove the mayor to St. Dominic Hospital on Saturday.…
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January 7, 2009
Jerry Mitchell piece on Ed Peters and Bobby DeLaughter
Ex-DA turns in license Former longtime Hinds County District Attorney Ed Peters, identified as a participant in an alleged bribery scheme, has turned in his bar license in a move legal experts say suggests he has struck a deal. Federal authorities are investigating allegations he schemed with associates of imprisoned former lawyer Dickie Scruggs to…
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January 7, 2009
YP – US moves to seize $425,000 in Ed Peters ill-gotten gains . . . on 12/31!
Only in the Dickie Scruggs world can the United States Government actually sue $425,000 in cash. But it has happened. Complaint Subsequent Order In the case styled 3:08CV137, the US Government vs. $425,000 in US Currency, the US Attorney filed on New Year’s Eve to seize it after it had been forfeited by Ed Peters,…
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January 7, 2009
DJ – U.S. wants money it claims Joey Langston transferred to Ed Peters in plot
BREAKING NEWS: U.S. wants money it claims Langston transferred to Peters in plot Former Hinds district attorney Edward J. Peters is formally accused of conspiring to corrupt a sitting Mississippi circuit judge in a U.S. District Court document filed Dec. 31, the Daily Journal has learned. The document came to light Tuesday in a records…
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January 7, 2009
DM – “Turning in his (Ed Peters’) bar card was likely part of the agreement”
Alleged Scruggs II conspiritor submitts ‘irrevocable resignation’ Peters allegedly accepted $50,000 of tax free money from Scruggs, Balducci testified last spring. When Delaughter ruled in Scruggs favor, Scruggs gave $1.5 million to Langston to split with Peters and Patterson, part of Langston’s guilty plea says. A lawyer close to the case has said Peters has…
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January 7, 2009
Could the ’07 bar complaint against Peters settled by his bar resignation stem from Kirk v. Pope?
This is another attempted exercise in connecting the dots. Remember in the Peters resignation that it referred to a bar complaint numbered 07-456-2. My sense is that this comes from one of two places. Either the Wilson case and the now notorious “reverse contingency fee” or Kirk vs. Pope. I dug an old NMC post…
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January 7, 2009
YP – Information from MS Bar re: Peters’ Resignation Process
From MS Bar General Counsel Adam Kilgore Attachment of documentation The attorney disciplinary process is regulated by the Rules of Discipline for the Mississippi State Bar, as set forth by the Supreme Court of Mississippi. The Mississippi Bar acts as a designated disciplinary agent of the Supreme Court of Mississippi in accordance with the Rules…
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January 7, 2009
DJ BREAKING – Ed Peters bar resignation means he’s guilty of something
Peters bar resignation means he’s guilty of something While details were scarce, Bar spokesman Adam Kilgore said Peters’ signature to the Notice of Irrevocable Resignation means he has pleaded guilty to something pretty serious. NE MS Daily Journal 1/6/9
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January 7, 2009
Barbour praises Toyota pledges
The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, 1/6/9 While Toyota has suspended indefinitely the opening of a $1.3 billion automotive manufacturing plant in Blue Springs, Gov. Haley Barbour said Monday recent financial pledges by the company demonstrate its long-term commitment to Northeast Mississippi. Toyota will pay the interest on state and local bonds issued on its behalf…
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Frank Corder
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April 8, 2026
Governor approves second disaster loan program for cities, counties effected by winter storm
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Jeremy Pittari
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April 8, 2026
Student cell phone use bans fail to find support in Mississippi House, Senate
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Daniel Tyson
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April 8, 2026
Dept. of Public Safety set to consolidate divisions, providing more strategic collaboration and cost savings
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Frank Corder
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March 31, 2026
Channel South, $105 million mixed use development, aims to transform Gulfport’s downtown
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Frank Corder
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March 26, 2026
DG Foods announces $1.19 million expansion
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Frank Corder
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March 25, 2026
AeroShield Alliance locating headquarters in Mississippi
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Will Graves, Associated Press
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April 8, 2026
Pirates sign teenage shortstop Konnor Griffin to a 9-year deal worth at least $140 million
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Richelle Putnam
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April 8, 2026
Where the Light Falls: The landscape of Marshall Bouldin
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Alistair Begg
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April 8, 2026
More than a name
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Russ Latino
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April 8, 2026
The truth about ACA subsidies after the “One Big Beautiful Bill”
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Sid Salter
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April 8, 2026
A new take on an old question about who Mississippians trust with life-altering decisions
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Russ Latino
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April 3, 2026
Lawmakers owe Reeves a ‘thank you’ for stopping Medicaid expansion
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