Update: If you are coming into Folo looking for information about what happened with Ed Peters today, you might start in this summary-of-the-day here.
Ed Peters has turned in his law license to the state bar, reports WLBT channel 3 in Jackson.
JACKSON, MS (WLBT) – Former Hinds County District Attorney Ed Peters has given up his license to practice law. Attorney Joey Langston has linked Peters, attorney Dickie Scruggs, and Hinds county judge Bobby Delaughter in a judicial bribery sceme.
According to Langston, Scruggs paid Peters to help influence Delaughter in a dispute over $15-million in legal fees for asbestos litigation. Peters was Delaughter’s longtime friend and former boss.
Judge Delaughter eventually ruled in Scruggs ‘ favor. Peters — along with Langston and former state auditor Steve Patterson — pocketed $1-million from Scruggs , according to Langston’s plea agreement in the federal investigation.
Langston also claims that the bait in the bribery scheme was a federal judgeship Delaughter was interested in. Senator Trent Lott (who is Scrugg’s brother in law) alledgedly submitted Delaughter’s name for consideration on Scrugg’s behalf. Dealughter never received that judgeship.
Things are starting to become visible now?
Update
YallPolitics goes to the docket:
| Supreme Court of Mississippi |
| Court of Appeals of the State of Mississippi |
| Clerk’s Docket |
| 2009-BD-00005-SCT |
| The Mississippi Bar v. Edward J. Peters |
| Petitioner Parties | |
| The Mississippi Bar | Represented By: |
| Adam Bradley Kilgore | |
| Gwendolyn G. Combs | |
| James Russell Clark | |
| Respondent Parties | |
| Edward J. Peters | Represented By: |
| Cynthia Ann Stewart | |
General Docket
| 1/5/2009 | Notice of Retention by the Supreme Court |
Did the ball just get teed up?
Here we gooooooooooo . . . ….. …
Smells to me like a deal has already been cut, and surrendering his license was part of the agreement.
Yep, and the story’s long been that he skedaddled to the USA’s office in Oxford soon’s he heard of Dickie’s bust.
Did he turn it in today? Or is this just the first that anyone has heard of it?
amicus, what you see up there is all that’s visible so far.
Does it strike you as strange that, an hour later, still only WLBT has this?
look at the update Lotus
Right, NMC, but I mean “of the MSM persuasion.”
That move seems to be highly suggestive of one his who is completing the final touches of a sweet plea bargain…has he coughed up Lott, Moore, Hood, etc? Any other big fish out there?
Khayat retires and Peters gives up his license. Are these two events related? reminds me on Lott retiring and Scruggs indictment.
Can anyone get a copy of the petition filed by the Bar asking the Court to disbar Ed?
I’m working on it nancy
copy of the petition posted.
maryannmobley (interesting handle?!): I don’t think there’s any relation.
Jerry Mitchell up.
does this mean the Judge has not made a deal?
A very reliably little bird just told me that the only thing going on at the federal building today is that the grand jury is meeting.
I suspect the indictments will be served by the end of the week.
Funny comment at the C-L: “Steve Patterson should get 20 years. Is and has been a crook for years. loves to say how he is going to become a preacher after getting busted. Happens every time.”
lol lotus on being a preacher….wonder what he will be preaching on? ha! now if we can get the legislature to pass a bill that would take away peters retirement..then some real justice can be done and also a deterrent to future judges or public officials…
Well, you know, jdog, ol’ Debbie sed they wuz “in the Holy Land gettin’ edified” when the bust was brewing.
edified, glorified, crucified, testified….thats what i am talking bout!
Yesterday I advocated “In the Jailhouse Now” as the theme song for this site but now am tempted to recommend Bob Dylan’s “Only a Pawn in Their Game” which is about Medgar Evers murder and Byran de la Beckwith. Seems fitting what with Peters’ and DeLaughter’s association to that case and their being pawns for another.