Scruggs Associate Who Knows Where "Bodies Are Buried" to Plead Guilty

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Scruggs Associate Who Knows Where "Bodies Are Buried" to Plead Guilty
By Paul Kiel - December 5, 2007, 2:16PM

Bad news for Trent Lott's brother-in-law Dickie Scruggs:

Timothy Balducci, a co-defendant in the federal bribery case against plaintiffs attorney Richard "Dickie" Scruggs, has agreed to plead guilty to one count of conspiracy and to cooperate with the government....

Federal prosecutors have alleged that Mr. Balducci earlier this year approached state Circuit Court Judge Henry Lackey on Mr. Scruggs's behalf and offered to pay him $40,000 for a favorable ruling in a civil case.

Balducci could prove a formidable cooperator. After all, in a conversation with Judge Lackey (one taped by investigators), he said:

{Dickie Scruggs} and I, um, how shall I say, for over the last five or six years there, there are bodies buried that, that you know, that he and I know where...where are, and, and, my, my trust in his, mine in him and his in mine, in me, I am sure are the same.

Not the guy you want talking to the feds.

[flashl]

1. Same tactics different players

get one defendant to "roll" on the other to save their hide. This appears to be a local power grab between lawyers for the Katrina booty (class action lawsuit).

[xchrom]

2. oh YUMMY! this is going to be good -- can't wait to hear more. nt

[pleah]

3. I hope Skruggs is found not guilty.

He is the only one going against the big insurance companies down here. Might be how this got started in the first place.