Dickie Scruggs

Book Traces Attorney's Career From Billionaire To Inmate

npr.org | By Curtis Wilkie | Posted 05.25.2011

How that system worked -- and how Scruggs wound up in prison for attempted bribery -- is the subject of The Fall of the House of Zeus, a book by journ...

Dickie Scruggs Gets 5 Years In Prison For Bribery Scheme

AP | HOLBROOK MOHR | Posted 05.25.2011

OXFORD, Miss. — Richard "Dickie" Scruggs, who became one of the wealthiest civil lawsuit attorneys in the country by taking on tobacco, asbestos...

`King of Torts' Cops a Plea

AP | EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS | Posted 05.25.2011

JACKSON, Miss. — Richard "Dickie" Scruggs, the legendary trial lawyer who made Big Business tremble every time he set foot in court, pleaded gui...

Trent Lott Under Federal Investigation

Wall Street Journal | PAULO PRADA and ASHBY JONES | Posted 05.25.2011

Federal agents are investigating whether former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott knowingly played a role in an alleged conspiracy in 2006 to influenc...

Max Follmer

Trent Lott's Brother-In-Law, Nephew, Indicted On Federal Bribery Charges

HuffingtonPost.com | Max Follmer | Posted 05.25.2011

Prominent Mississippi trial attorney Richard "Dickie" Scruggs, the brother-in-law of outgoing GOP Sen. Trent Lott, was indicted by a federal grand jur...