{"id":198236,"date":"2007-11-29T20:23:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-30T01:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/11\/29\/lotts-brother-in-law-indicted-on-bribery-charges\/"},"modified":"2007-11-29T20:23:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-30T01:23:00","slug":"lotts-brother-in-law-indicted-on-bribery-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/11\/29\/lotts-brother-in-law-indicted-on-bribery-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"Lott&#8217;s Brother-in-Law Indicted on Bribery Charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, the fact that his brother-in-law, Rickard &#8220;Dickie&#8221; Scruggs, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/blogs\/thecrypt\/1107\/Lotts_brother_in_law_Scruggs_indicted_on_bribery_charges.html\">was indicted on bribery charges<\/a> may go a bit of a way towards explaining his leaving the senate.<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>Scruggs is perhaps best known for suing tobacco companies in multibillion-dollar lawsuits in the late 1990s. But he also acted as Lott&#8217;s lawyer, as well as the attorney for many Mississippi homeowners, in a successful lawsuit against State Farm Insurance when the firm denied thousands of claims in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, even if Lott has done nothing illegal, he probably does 3 wrong things before having breakfast, it sounds like it was a good time for him to look at the DC lobbying gig.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, the fact that his brother-in-law, Rickard &#8220;Dickie&#8221; Scruggs, was indicted on bribery charges may go a bit of a way towards explaining his leaving the senate. Scruggs is perhaps best known for suing tobacco companies in multibillion-dollar lawsuits in the late 1990s. But he also acted as Lott&#8217;s lawyer, as well as the attorney &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,970,972,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-corruption","category-justice","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198236"}],"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=198236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}