Richard “Dickie” Scruggs, the crooked trial lawyer who helped orchestrate multibillion dollar settlements between the States and the big tobacco companies, was sentenced today to five years in prison for conspiring to bribe a judge, plus a $250,000 fine. We earlier discussed how consumers got ripped off by those settlements, how corrupt trial lawyers like Scruggs collectively received more than $15 billion (not million, billion) for helping to rip-off the public, and how states are misusing the money they collected under the settlements.
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Tobacco Settlement Lawyer Sentenced in Bribery Case
by Hans Bader
June 27, 2008 @ 2:25 pm
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[...] dollar tobacco settlements. Those settlements raised prices for consumers in order to pay $15 billion in attorneys fees for the trial lawyers hired by state attorneys general to bring them (including lawyers who received fabulous wealth [...]
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Manufactured and fraudulent claims how attorneys get their’s. Mississippi’s criminal court system. Attorney money grabbed at http://www.mftms13.wordpress.com
Mississippi is the worse state for ripping off the people of the state of Mississippi and it all has to do with political greed. There is no more justice in the state of Mississippi and if you are poor oh well you are done for.