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July 3, 2008
NYT – Scruggs’s Son Sentenced in Bribery Case
Scruggs’s Son Sentenced in Bribery Case The government had recommended probation for Zach Scruggs, 34, also a lawyer, who was sentenced by Judge Neal B. Biggers Jr. at a hearing in Federal District Court in Oxford, Miss. Richard Scruggs, 62, who spearheaded legal settlements with tobacco firms that provided $206 billion to 46 states, was…
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July 3, 2008
SH – Younger Scruggs also gets prison
Younger Scruggs also gets prison Scruggs had hoped for probation. His attorneys were unprepared to tell Biggers where Scruggs hoped to serve the sentence because they had not expected him to go to prison. One of those attorneys, former Attorney General Mike Moore, asked that Scruggs be allowed to suggest a location in a legal…
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July 3, 2008
Mike Moore quote of the year
Zach Scruggs’ penalty harsher than anticipated After the hearing, Mike Moore said of Zach Scruggs, “His father is involved in something. What’s he going to do? Turn his father in?” Clarion Ledger 7/3/8
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July 3, 2008
ICLAWBLOG – Zach Scruggs gets 14 months prison time
Zach Scruggs gets 14 months prison time Also present and representing Zach was former Mississippi AG Mike Moore, who at one point, to the apparent surprise of the judge, who said he was accustomed to only one lawyer speaking on behalf of a defendant, interjected some bunk about counseling Zach over the last year and…
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July 3, 2008
WJSLAWBLOG – Zach Scruggs Gets 14 Months, Though Gov’t Suggested Probation
Zach Scruggs Gets 14 Months, Though Gov’t Suggested Probation Former Mississippi AG Mike Moore defended Scruggs, saying that Scruggs never knew of an attempt to corrupt a judge. But Biggers said one of the most negative things about Scruggs’s case was that Scruggs had declared his great love and respect for law. “Your actions have…
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July 3, 2008
YP – Partial text from Zach’s March plea hearing
THE COURT : All right. Mr. Graves, Mr. Moore, do either of you have any doubt as to the defendant’ s competence to enter a plea at this time? MR . GRAVES : No, sir. MR . MOORE : No, sir. THE COURT : The Court finds that this defendant is competent to enter a…
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July 3, 2008
Governor Barbour pushes Judge Singletary to rush decision on Medicaid
“I have directed the Mississippi Division of Medicaid to file a motion today asking Judge William H. Singletary of the Hinds County Chancery Court to expedite his ruling in a lawsuit challenging the agency’s authority to increase gross revenue assessments on hospitals as a means of funding the program. I believe now as I did…
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July 3, 2008
Text of Zach Scruggs’ Sentencing Hearing
The Zach Scruggs Sentencing Hearing Transcript courtesy of our friends at FOLO THE COURT : All right. The next case on the docket is U . S . v . David Zachary Scruggs. Who’ s with him? Are they here? (Pause) Come up, gentlemen. All right. Let’ s get some order back there. All right.…
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July 3, 2008
YP – Misprision of Felony
Most news outlets are reporting that Zach Scruggs pleaded guilty to misprision of felony by simply failing to report the “conspiracy” to influence Judge Lackey. The Daily Mississippian says “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…
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July 3, 2008
Sid Salter – Medicaid: Barbour seeks a judicial solution
Medicaid: Barbour seeks a judicial solution Locked in stalemate with the Legislature over the Medicaid special session, it seems Gov. Haley Barbour is hoping for a judicial solution to a problem he hasn’t been able to win a legislative victory to solve. This just in from the Governor’s Office: “I have directed the Mississippi Division…
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July 3, 2008
LIFE OF REILLY
LIFE OF REILLY Congrats, newly minted NBA rookie! Now you’ve been drafted. Next comes the delicious multimillion-dollar contract. And that’s when you must do what most NBA players do: start going through cash like Jack Black through the Keebler factory. Filing for bankruptcy is a long-standing tradition for NBA players, 60% of whom, according to…
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July 3, 2008
POL – misprision of a felony equals concealing the crime
Zach Scruggs Gets 14 Months The WSJ law blog says that this federal crime is committed by failure to report a crime of which one has knowledge, but that is not accurate. The federal crime of misprision of a felony requires concealment of the crime, not merely non-reporting of it. The young Scruggs’ attorney was…
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Frank Corder
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Mark Sherman, Associated Press
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Frank Corder
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Frank Corder
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