Comments on: Ed Peters day kicks off Scruggs II (summarizing a confusing day of posts) http://www.folo.us/2009/01/07/ed-peters-day-kicks-off-scruggs-ii-summarizing-a-confusing-day-of-posts/ Sat, 21 Mar 2009 17:40:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: lotus http://www.folo.us/2009/01/07/ed-peters-day-kicks-off-scruggs-ii-summarizing-a-confusing-day-of-posts/#comment-55557 lotus Wed, 07 Jan 2009 13:41:06 +0000 http://www.folo.us/2009/01/07/ed-peters-day-kicks-off-scruggs-ii-summarizing-a-confusing-day-of-posts/#comment-55557 From Patsy's early-morning <a href="http://www.djournal.com/pages/story.asp?ID=284272&pub=1&div=News" rel="nofollow">story</a>: <blockquote>OXFORD - Former Hinds County District Attorney Ed Peters is formally accused of conspiring to corrupt a sitting Mississippi circuit judge, the Daily Journal has learned. The information is contained in a U.S. District Court document filed Dec. 31. It came to light Tuesday in a records search about an order to get at $425,000 from alleged illegal wire transfers from former lawyer Joey Langston of Booneville to Peters. The order to "arrest" the money is U.S. Magistrate Judge S. Allan Alexander's response to a Dec. 31 document explaining why U.S. Attorney Jim Greenlee wants to obtain the money. This document appears to be the first public federal accusation against Peters in a scheme to bribe Hinds Judge Bobby DeLaughter. ...</blockquote> From Patsy’s early-morning story:

OXFORD – Former Hinds County District Attorney Ed Peters is formally accused of conspiring to corrupt a sitting Mississippi circuit judge, the Daily Journal has learned.

The information is contained in a U.S. District Court document filed Dec. 31. It came to light Tuesday in a records search about an order to get at $425,000 from alleged illegal wire transfers from former lawyer Joey Langston of Booneville to Peters.

The order to “arrest” the money is U.S. Magistrate Judge S. Allan Alexander’s response to a Dec. 31 document explaining why U.S. Attorney Jim Greenlee wants to obtain the money.

This document appears to be the first public federal accusation against Peters in a scheme to bribe Hinds Judge Bobby DeLaughter. …

]]> By: ccvz http://www.folo.us/2009/01/07/ed-peters-day-kicks-off-scruggs-ii-summarizing-a-confusing-day-of-posts/#comment-55551 ccvz Wed, 07 Jan 2009 12:52:31 +0000 http://www.folo.us/2009/01/07/ed-peters-day-kicks-off-scruggs-ii-summarizing-a-confusing-day-of-posts/#comment-55551 NMC, will you be in Oxford the rest of the week in case there's something to go see down at the courthouse? NMC, will you be in Oxford the rest of the week in case there’s something to go see down at the courthouse?

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