The Mississippi Press on Gulf Coast book signings
Book delves into Scruggs bribery case and beyond
A new book chronicling one of the largest judicial bribery scandals in U.S. history is out, and its authors will be in Ocean Springs and Pascagoula today to sign and promote it.
“Kings of Tort” is a nonfiction collaboration between Tom Dawson and Alan Lange, focusing on the fall of former Pascagoula attorney Richard “Dickie” Scruggs and his partner in tobacco litigation, Paul Minor.
Scruggs and Minor made millions in defense of clients targeting “big tobacco” companies and others, and both are currently serving prison terms for improperly influencing judges.
Their rise and eventual fall was watched closely by Mississippians and people throughout the nation alike, and “Kings of Tort” serves as the crossroads of pertinent information regarding their cases, and others, according to Lange.
“There’s not a lot of new information, but the larger effort was to connect the dots to information that had only been told in bits and pieces,” said Lange, a Jackson native who founded and operates the Web site Yallpolitics.com.
“You cannot tell this story a few column inches at a time. It’s too complicated.”
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