Attorney Zach Scruggs was sentenced Wednesday to 14 months in prison and fined $250,000 for not alerting authorities to the bribery scandal that entangled his father, famed plaintiffs lawyer Richard Scruggs. Zach and Dickie Scruggs and a law partner were indicted in November after an associate secretly recorded conversations about a plan to bribe a judge. Prosecutors said the goal was to get a favorable ruling in a dispute over $26.5 million in fees from a settlement of Hurricane Katrina insurance cases.
July 03, 2008 at 12:00 AM
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Attorney Zach Scruggs was sentenced Wednesday to 14 months in prison for not alerting authorities to the bribery scandal that entangled his father, famed plaintiffs lawyer Richard “Dickie” Scruggs.
The sentence included a $250,000 fine. Prosecutors had recommended probation for misprision of a felony, which meant he had knowledge of a crime and didn’t report it.
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