The federal penitentiaries for white collar criminals are very lax and don’t even lock the front gates. No locked cell doors and full run of the premises. No real hard core criminals
These two pieces of human garbage aren’t being punished. Sending them away to some hillbilly miminum security prison is a formality. They’ll be elibigle for parole after serving only 1/3 of their sentence. Not too bad considering they lived the good life for decades and got to spend the hundreds of millions of dollars they got by bilking the legal system. There’s a double standard to attorneys and judges. They’re part of a close knit fraternity and they don’t hurt each other.
Someone had it in for Scruggs, and won. $50k bribe from a man worth hundreds of millions? Come on, a lawyer able to beat tabacco is more sophisticated than that. Looks like a set-up by the Feds to me – just read the wire-tap transcripts. The Judge involved refused to accept the money unless he could be sure it came from Scruggs. Entrapment anyone?
Just goes to show you insurance companies and the feds will get you if they want you. Everyone in the legal profession agrees with you; 50 k was a set-up. They were probably after the judge and snagged Dickie.
Amazing how people can twist reality when it’s someone they love (or hate).
Have you ever negotiated buying a car/house? Do you make your first offer so rediculously high that the seller has no option but to accept although it means you’re out a hell of a lot more money that what would have been accepted? No, you start low, wait for a counter, then negotiate.
For this to be a set-up you have to be assuming that the judge approached Dickie and said “Hey man, I need $50k for a new BMW, spare a dime for a favor or two?”
But obviously that’s not the case in your minds either since another post suggested they were going for the judge but got Dickie instead. So that can’t be the case.
How is it a set-up?
Dickie is a cheap ******* who didn’t want to lose any of his millions and figured maybe $50k was all that was needed to swing a liberal judge’s vote on an issue that would pretty much guarantee the judge’s reappointment.
Please people… there isn’t a vast consipracy out there to “get” Dickie. He did a good enough job of getting “got” on his own.
He got wrapped up in the millions of dollars he “earned”, the fame his cases brought him, and he started thinking he was above the law.
Take a look at the wire-tap transcripts and of the discussions between the Feds and Judge Lackey. The judge DID make the approach for the money, only to Balducci, not Scruggs. He claimed he had some financial issues, and asked if Balducci could help out. When Balducci came back and said he could, Lackey said he would only take the money if it was definitely coming from Scruggs and that Scruggs knew about it. Balducci fudged this, and said he would make sure Scruggs knew. It was after this that the Feds jumped on Balducci and threatened him with decades in prison unless he wore a wire and secured evidence against Scruggs.
So, tell me Anon: How does this not read like a set-up?
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They got what they deserved!
Yipes.
The federal penitentiaries for white collar criminals are very lax and don’t even lock the front gates. No locked cell doors and full run of the premises. No real hard core criminals
These two pieces of human garbage aren’t being punished. Sending them away to some hillbilly miminum security prison is a formality. They’ll be elibigle for parole after serving only 1/3 of their sentence. Not too bad considering they lived the good life for decades and got to spend the hundreds of millions of dollars they got by bilking the legal system. There’s a double standard to attorneys and judges. They’re part of a close knit fraternity and they don’t hurt each other.
Someone had it in for Scruggs, and won. $50k bribe from a man worth hundreds of millions? Come on, a lawyer able to beat tabacco is more sophisticated than that. Looks like a set-up by the Feds to me – just read the wire-tap transcripts. The Judge involved refused to accept the money unless he could be sure it came from Scruggs. Entrapment anyone?
Just goes to show you insurance companies and the feds will get you if they want you. Everyone in the legal profession agrees with you; 50 k was a set-up. They were probably after the judge and snagged Dickie.
Amazing how people can twist reality when it’s someone they love (or hate).
Have you ever negotiated buying a car/house? Do you make your first offer so rediculously high that the seller has no option but to accept although it means you’re out a hell of a lot more money that what would have been accepted? No, you start low, wait for a counter, then negotiate.
For this to be a set-up you have to be assuming that the judge approached Dickie and said “Hey man, I need $50k for a new BMW, spare a dime for a favor or two?”
But obviously that’s not the case in your minds either since another post suggested they were going for the judge but got Dickie instead. So that can’t be the case.
How is it a set-up?
Dickie is a cheap ******* who didn’t want to lose any of his millions and figured maybe $50k was all that was needed to swing a liberal judge’s vote on an issue that would pretty much guarantee the judge’s reappointment.
Please people… there isn’t a vast consipracy out there to “get” Dickie. He did a good enough job of getting “got” on his own.
He got wrapped up in the millions of dollars he “earned”, the fame his cases brought him, and he started thinking he was above the law.
Take a look at the wire-tap transcripts and of the discussions between the Feds and Judge Lackey. The judge DID make the approach for the money, only to Balducci, not Scruggs. He claimed he had some financial issues, and asked if Balducci could help out. When Balducci came back and said he could, Lackey said he would only take the money if it was definitely coming from Scruggs and that Scruggs knew about it. Balducci fudged this, and said he would make sure Scruggs knew. It was after this that the Feds jumped on Balducci and threatened him with decades in prison unless he wore a wire and secured evidence against Scruggs.
So, tell me Anon: How does this not read like a set-up?
ASL,
You need to stop drinking the Bellesouth kool-aid. You know what I mean.
Errr…No, actually, Dustin, I don’t know what you mean.