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Associated Press
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Published: Sat, June 28, 2008 - 10:33 am
Last Updated: Sat, June 28, 2008 - 11:10 am
OXFORD, Miss. (AP) - Famed anti-tobacco lawyer Richard"Dickie" Scruggs is headed to prison for five years for
conspiring to bribe a judge.
Scruggs was sentenced Friday in a Mississippi federal court. He
was also fined $250,000.
Scruggs gained fame in the 1990s by using a corporate insider
against tobacco companies in lawsuits that resulted in a $206
billion settlement. That case was portrayed in the 1999 film "The
Insider."
Scruggs was indicted in November along with his son and a law
partner after the FBI secretly recorded conversations about a plan
to bribe a state court judge.
Scruggs and former law partner Sidney Backstrom pleaded guilty
to conspiracy in March.
The judge handed down the full sentence requested by
prosecutors. Scruggs must report to prison by August 4th.
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