A federal grand jury on Wednesday indicted prominent attorney Richard "Dickie" Scruggs on criminal charges that he and other lawyers engaged in a scheme to bribe a judge. Scruggs earned millions from asbestos litigation and from his role in brokering a multibillion-dollar settlement with tobacco companies in the mid-1990s. After Katrina hit, the Gulf Coast native sued insurers on behalf of hundreds of policyholders whose claims were denied after the storm.
November 29, 2007 at 12:00 AM
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A federal grand jury on Wednesday indicted prominent attorney Richard “Dickie” Scruggs on criminal charges that he and other lawyers engaged in a scheme to bribe a judge.
A 13-page indictment accuses Scruggs, his son and law partner Zach Scruggs, and two other lawyers of conspiring to bribe Mississippi Circuit Court Judge Henry Lackey with more than $40,000 in cash.
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