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Originally Posted by MRM
Scruggs has $26.5 million in fees on the line and he tries to bribe a judge with a measly $40 grand? What a piker.
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Scruggs is fighting the charges. However, his lawyer was served with a search warrant for his office a few days later and was added to the indictment a week later. Scruggs' lawyer has recently entered a guilty plea on conspiracy charges.
Langston Enters Guilty Plea in Scruggs-Related Case
There are new developments in the judicial bribery case involving prominent trial attorney Richard "Dickie" Scruggs. The Associated Press is reporting that another lawyer connected to Scruggs' practice has entered a plea in the bribery case.
Booneville attorney Joey Langston has pleaded guilty to trying to influence a Hinds County judge in 1994.
Langston is one of the defense attorneys who represented Scruggs.
On December 10, Langston's office was raided by FBI agents. Files related to the federal bribery case were seized.
In late November Scruggs and his son Zach and other associates were indicted on charges they conspired to bribe Circuit Court Judge Henry Lackey.
Another of Scrugg's associates, Timothy Balducci, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to bribe the judge in early December.
Balducci is working with federal prosecutors, who say he offered the judge $40,000 on Scruggs' behalf.
Now, according to the Associated Press, a 1994 lawsuit is being looked into by federal investigators, in which two of Scruggs' former associates, attorneys Alwyn Luckey and William Roberts Wilson Jr., sued Scruggs for a bigger share of millions of dollars the attorneys won in asbestos litigation.
The AP reports that Balducci and Langston paid former Hinds County District Attorney Ed Peters to try to influence Hinds County Circuit Judge Bobby DeLaughter's decision in the 1994 case.
DeLaughter has denied ever taking a bribe. Peters could not be reached for comment.
Dickie and Zach Scruggs and three associates have pleaded not guilty to the bribery charges.