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The New York Times looks around the country surveying the impact of the Sklling case on honest services cases that don’t involve straight up bribery. The case starts with a newly sworn-in U.S. Attorney’s dismissal of charges in a Kansas case: On Friday afternoon, a federal judge swore in Barry R. Grissom as the United States attorney [...] By far the most interesting reading in the exhibits filed with Zach Scruggs’s motion, at least from the standpoint of news, are three exhibits that are affidavits filed in the state bar proceeding in which Zach Scruggs filed a bar complaint against Tony Farese. Recall that Zach hired Tony at the time of his arraignment for the [...] There’s a lot of news in the motion Zach Scruggs filed. The most interesting is surfacing because Zach has filed a bar complaint against Tony Farese. In his response, Farese filed affidavits of prosecutors David Sanders (now a Magistrate Judge) and Bob Norman, along with an affidavit of Joey Langston. The purpose of [...] Bill Minor has a column based on having seen the galleys of Curtis Wilkie’s book about Scruggs, and has enough news in it to suggest the book is going to be very interesting. What Minor is writing about is the moment when Scruggs was working toward a settlement with State Farm, and Jim Hood was not [...] Patsy Brumfield, who has apparently seen a pleading not yet visible on Pacer, reports that Zach Scruggs is about to file to set aside his guilty plea, taking a potshot a his first laywer, Tony Farese, and arguing that legal developments– presumably the Minor case in the Fifth Circuit (which held that there had to be [...] What remains of Wilson v. Scruggs is in the Federal District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi. As I’ve posted earlier, Wilson has settled with Scruggs and Langston but continues to pursue Patterson, Peters, and Balducci (the last filed a pleading admitting liability but asserting other defendants were primarily liable). The case is before Judge [...] A quick read of the opinion granting summary judgment for Hood shows that the basis is that Hood had the authority to hire outside counsel and that, because MCI paid the money, there’s not a legal issue about the legislature appropriating. From Sid Salter’s blog: http://www.clarionledger.com/assets/pdf/D0152201219.PDF Hinds County Circuit Judge Winston Kidd has ruled against State Auditor [...] Two stories that might be of interest to folks following the Scruggs case. First, Patsy Brumfield writes about the resolution of the case involving Ed Peters’s “fee.” The second is a tad more obscure, and I’ll present it in the form of a Scruggs trivia question: The discrimination claims of Black farmers against the Agriculture Department is [...] Recall that the first substantial public evidence that Ed Peters had “come in” and become to some degree a government witness was a forfeiture action filed between Christmas and New Years in 2008, in which the Government alleged that he had surrendered to them $425,000 that remained of his million dollar fee for helping Joey Langston [...] |
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