Being a Mississippian who watched this play out in the news, this was a must-read for me. Unfortunately, it left me with as many questions as answers, and was, frankly, very unsettling. This is far from the black and white story portrayed in the media, of a crime uncovered and prosecuted and w...
The tone for the period was set when a federal jury in Jackson convicted Scruggs’s friend Paul Minor and two state judges of charges that Minor had won favorable rulings in exchange for loans and lines of credit. Scruggs had been a reluctant witness in the case, and the decision marked the end of...