{"id":195067,"date":"2008-07-31T17:33:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-31T22:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/31\/trent-lott-may-be-involved-in-witness-tampering\/"},"modified":"2008-07-31T17:33:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-31T22:33:00","slug":"trent-lott-may-be-involved-in-witness-tampering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/31\/trent-lott-may-be-involved-in-witness-tampering\/","title":{"rendered":"Trent Lott May Be Involved in Witness Tampering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s tied into the <a href=\"http:\/\/cbs4denver.com\/businesswire\/22.0.html?type=national&amp;serviceLevel=f&amp;category=f&amp;filename=APFN-MS-Katrina-State.xml\">Ricky Scruggs case<\/a>, and a deposition where Zack Scruggs, Lott&#8217;s nephew, took the 5th in response to the question, &#8220;Has it been your custom and habit in prosecuting litigation to have Senator Lott contact and encourage witnesses to give false information?&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s nice that Scruggs and Lott got along so well&#8230;I would have figured some tension, as Scruggs was a big Democratic Party supporter in Mississippi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s tied into the Ricky Scruggs case, and a deposition where Zack Scruggs, Lott&#8217;s nephew, took the 5th in response to the question, &#8220;Has it been your custom and habit in prosecuting litigation to have Senator Lott contact and encourage witnesses to give false information?&#8221;. It&#8217;s nice that Scruggs and Lott got along so well&#8230;I &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,1045,972],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-insurance","category-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195067"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}