The Fall Of The House Of Zeus (2010) - Plot & Excerpts
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 a protracted effort by the federal government. Earlier trials ended in hung juries, and one of the original defendants, state supreme court justice Oliver Diaz, was acquitted outright despite repeated attempts by the prosecutors to convict him of various charges. Minor was sentenced to eleven years in prison. Scruggs was troubled by the harsh sentence, but by this time much of his attention focused on other legal, personal, and political pursuits. In retrospect, some of his adventures bore omens as heavy as Minor’s conviction. Even vacations turned perilous. In the company of friends, Dick and Diane had flown commercially because their vacation destination—the Maldives, an island nation off the coast of India—lay beyond the range of Scruggs’s Gulfstream.
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