by The Associated Press
Published: Mon, August 04, 2008 - 10:21 am CST
Last Updated: Mon, August 04, 2008 - 10:23 am CST
ASHLAND, Ky. (AP) - Famed anti-tobacco lawyer Richard "Dickie"Scruggs has reported to a federal prison in eastern Kentucky.
Prison spokesman Larry E. Whitman said Scruggs entered the
Federal Correctional Institute-Ashland at 11 a.m. EDT on Monday. He
was due at the prison by 2 p.m. to begin serving a five-year
sentence.
Scruggs was one of three people who pleaded guilty in March to
conspiring to bribe a judge with $50,000. Prosecutors said Scruggs
wanted a favorable ruling in a dispute over $26.5 million in legal
fees from a mass settlement of Hurricane Katrina insurance cases.
Dickie Scruggs gained fame in the 1990s by using a corporate
insider against tobacco companies in lawsuits that resulted in a
$206 billion settlement.
(Copyright 2008 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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