Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Richard F. \"Dickie\" Scruggs (born May 17, 1946) is an American former A6A naval aviator, a prominent trial lawyer, one of the richest men in Mississippi, and the brother-in-law of former U.S. Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott. Scruggs first came to the public eye after successfully suing the asbestos industry on behalf of ill shipyard workers. He later represented the state of Mississippi in the tobacco litigation of the 1990s. He also represented hundreds of homeowners in lawsuits against insurance companies following Hurricane Katrina, and a national class action of patients against HMOs in the early 2000s.Scruggs was indicted for attempted bribery in 2007 and in 2009. He pleaded guilty in March 2008, and again in February 2009. Scruggs was sentenced to 5 years in prison on June 27, 2008 by U.S. District Judge Neal Biggers; and on February 10, 2009, Judge Glen H. Davidson sentenced him to 7 years for the second scheme, to run concurrently. Kings of Tort, by Alan Lange and Tom Dawson, released in 2009, documents the rise and fall of Scruggs. The Fall of the House of Zeus: The Rise and Ruin of America's Most Powerful Trial Lawyer, by veteran journalist Curtis Wilkie, was published in 2010.Scruggs legal career was derailed by his indictment in a judicial bribery scheme on November, 2007. Scruggs' motion to dismiss the indictment was denied, and he pleaded guilty of conspiracy to bribe Circuit Judge Henry L. Lackey. He also entered a 2009 guilty plea for a scheme to influence Circuit Judge Bobby DeLaughter. He served six years in federal prison and was released in 2014."@en }
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- Richard_Scruggs abstract "Richard F. \"Dickie\" Scruggs (born May 17, 1946) is an American former A6A naval aviator, a prominent trial lawyer, one of the richest men in Mississippi, and the brother-in-law of former U.S. Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott. Scruggs first came to the public eye after successfully suing the asbestos industry on behalf of ill shipyard workers. He later represented the state of Mississippi in the tobacco litigation of the 1990s. He also represented hundreds of homeowners in lawsuits against insurance companies following Hurricane Katrina, and a national class action of patients against HMOs in the early 2000s.Scruggs was indicted for attempted bribery in 2007 and in 2009. He pleaded guilty in March 2008, and again in February 2009. Scruggs was sentenced to 5 years in prison on June 27, 2008 by U.S. District Judge Neal Biggers; and on February 10, 2009, Judge Glen H. Davidson sentenced him to 7 years for the second scheme, to run concurrently. Kings of Tort, by Alan Lange and Tom Dawson, released in 2009, documents the rise and fall of Scruggs. The Fall of the House of Zeus: The Rise and Ruin of America's Most Powerful Trial Lawyer, by veteran journalist Curtis Wilkie, was published in 2010.Scruggs legal career was derailed by his indictment in a judicial bribery scheme on November, 2007. Scruggs' motion to dismiss the indictment was denied, and he pleaded guilty of conspiracy to bribe Circuit Judge Henry L. Lackey. He also entered a 2009 guilty plea for a scheme to influence Circuit Judge Bobby DeLaughter. He served six years in federal prison and was released in 2014.".