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Last Updated on Tuesday, 25 March 2008 01:52 Written by rslcpol Tuesday, 25 March 2008 09:11
The last defendant in the bribery case that brought down powerful plaintiffs’ attorney Richard “Dickie” Scruggs _ his son _ pleaded guilty Friday in a deal with federal prosecutors that could keep him out of prison.
Zach Scruggs pleaded guilty to misprision of a felony, which means he had knowledge of a felony but didn’t report it. He, his father and three others were originally charged with conspiring to bribe a judge in a dispute over $26.5 million in legal fees.In federal court in Oxford, Scruggs said Friday that he had no knowledge of an attempt to bribe the judge and would have stopped it if he had known. However, he said he knew that another lawyer had “improper contacts” with the judge and that he had a duty to report them.