Famed anti-tobacco lawyer Richard "Dickie" Scruggs has been ordered to report to a federal prison in Ashland, Ky., next month to start serving his five-year sentence for attempting to bribe a Mississippi judge. Scruggs' son, Zach, will go to a federal prison in Pensacola, Fla., to serve his 14-month sentence for failing to report the crime. Zach Scruggs asked that he and his father both be sent to the prison in Forrest City, Ark., citing the "travel burden" on his "health-embattled mother."
July 24, 2008 at 12:00 AM
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Famed anti-tobacco lawyer Richard “Dickie” Scruggs has been ordered to report to a federal prison in Ashland, Ky., next month to start serving his five-year sentence for attempting to bribe a Mississippi judge.
Documents filed Wednesday in federal court in Oxford, Miss., also showed Scruggs’ son, Zach, will go to a federal prison in Pensacola, Fla., to serve his 14-month sentence for failing to report the crime.
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