Oxford Eagle - Book Ready on Scruggs Legal Saga
By Alyssa Schnugg
A former assistant U.S. Attorney and Jackson blogger have co-authored a book on political and legal manipulation in Mississippi that features the rise and fall of trial attorneys Richard “Dickie” Scruggs and Paul Minor.
Published by Pediment Publishing, the 250-plus page book is due out in the first week of December, said Dave Hollingsworth, director of sales and marketing for Pediment.
The book will be titled, “Kings of Tort: The True Story of Dickie Scruggs, Paul Minor and Two Decades of Political and Legal Manipulation in Mississippi.”
The authors, former assistant U.S. attorney Tom Dawson and Alan Lange, who manages the political blog Y’all Politics, met last year at an Ole Miss football game.
Dawson, who was one of the lead prosecutors in the Scruggs judicial bribery scandal, retired in January from the U.S. Attorney’s office.
“Alan reached out to me and said he was thinking of doing some writing,” Dawson said Tuesday. “I told him I was thinking the same thing.”
The book will document Scruggs’ rise to fame during his tobacco and asbestos lawsuit and then his fall from grace when he pleaded guilty to attempting to bribe Lafayette County Circuit Court Judge Henry Lackey and his involvement in corruptly influencing Hinds County Circuit Court Judge Bobby DeLaughter.
Scruggs is serving a seven-year prison sentence for the two crimes.
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