Patsy Brumfield on Zach’s sentencing:
OXFORD –" Zach Scruggs, the 34-year-old scion of fallen plaintiffs’ attorney Richard ‘Dickie’ Scruggs, will serve a 14-month prison term for failing to report that his father and others, including himself, were plotting to bribe a circuit judge.
At a morning hearing, Senior Judge Neal Biggers Jr. sentenced the slender, blond-haired lawyer in a U.S. District courtroom packed with family and friends.
In addition to the 14 months in prison, Biggers ordered Scruggs to pay a $250,000 fine, which includes the cost of incarceration, and serve a year of supervised probation upon his release.
His attorneys said they will ask that Scruggs not report to prison until October, when his third child is born. Biggers said he would consider the request. ….
Like his father and Backstrom, Zach Scruggs most certainly will lose his law license, which he gained after his 2000 honors graduation from Ole Miss Law School.
He still has something to fall back on –" his bachelor’s degree, earned in 1996, is in accountancy.
Just like Steve Patterson’s, so look out for more, Mississippi . . .
