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Jump to full article: AP, 2009-01-13
Author: HOLBROOK MOHR
Intro: An Alabama attorney has filed a federal lawsuit against imprisoned attorney Richard "Dickie" Scruggs and several others, alleging they conspired with a former U.S. senator to bribe a state court judge and defraud him of millions in legal fees.
The former senator is not identified by name in the federal lawsuit filed Monday by William Roberts Wilson Jr. However, one of Wilson's attorneys, Vicki Slater of Jackson, said the unnamed senator is Scruggs' brother-in-law, Trent Lott, a Republican power broker who retired in 2007.
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Scruggs and Wilson, of Tuscaloosa, Ala., once worked together suing asbestos companies. Wilson claimed Scruggs cheated him out of money and used it to fund a batch of landmark anti-tobacco lawsuits of the 1990s, in which Scruggs reportedly earned as much as $848 million. Wilson sued for a cut.
Wilson now accuses Scruggs and the others of racketeering by conspiring to bribe a judge presiding over the dispute dealing with the asbestos fees.
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