Ellington

The Associated Press is reporting:

An attorney confirms that FBI agents executed a search warrant Tuesday in the Oxford law firm of Richard "Dickie" Scruggs. Joey Langston — who is representing the Scruggs firm but is not an employee there — said FBI agents and federal prosecutors began searching the office in downtown Oxford at about 10:30 a.m. Tuesday and were still there about 3 p.m.

Langston told The Associated Press that the agents were looking for a single document that "might be ancillary to something pertaining to Katrina litigation," but is not directly involved in any of those cases.

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97329

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I hope the JFP will do some major reporting on the Scruggs case, because if these allegations are true it's a story that needs to be told. We're making Louisiana look pretty honest in the way of politics and judicial conduct, and it's most of it's coming from greedy trial lawyers. Mississippi doesn't need to be in first place when it comes to paying off judges. It sure looks like we are, and these criminals need to be called out.

Author

Cliff Cargill

Date

2007-12-17T07:47:33-06:00

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97330

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It's hard to have the resources it would take to do such a convoluted statewide case, but we'll contribute what we can. As you know, when few people were talking about this, weeks before the indictment, we wrote an editorial calling for the feds to dole out the punishment for bribes and the like fairly, being that they hadn't for so long. (That was in the same issue that we ran the Scott Horton's Harper's piece about Paul Minor and Adam's companion piece about Minor and Scruggs with Dunn Lampton's comments.) That Jerry Mitchell piece yesterday was hard to follow, but once you got to the main point of the story on the inside jump page—the part about Ed Peters—it certainly started piquing my interest. This story may have more of a local angle than we'd realized. Also, isn't it odd that Mitchell didn't mention that Balducci and Peters work together on cases, as we discussed on this thread last week? Peters seems to be a favorite over at the Ledger. Or, perhaps they are embarrassed to lead with the actual "news" on this in a way that makes sense because it points out investigative reporting they should have been doing years ago. Who knows?

Author

DonnaLadd

Date

2007-12-17T10:13:13-06:00