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Business community watching, waiting as judicial bribery probe widens.

Publication: Mississippi Business Journal
Publication Date: 28-JAN-08 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
In two months, Mississippi's still-unfolding judicial bribery case has brought to life a sequence of events that previously would have been reserved for the active imagination of a novelist or the aggressive paranoia of a conspiracy theorist.

Six men, including one of the wealthiest and most politically powerful plaintiff's attorneys in U.S. history, were charged with attempting to bribe a state circuit court judge. Three of the charged have already pleaded guilty and are cooperating with the government's ongoing investigation. One of the three to have already admitted his guilt is Steve Patterson, a former Mississippi state auditor.

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Patterson and attorneys Timothy Balducci and Joey Langston are the centerpieces of the government's investigation that began when Balducci attempted to bribe Circuit Judge Henry Lackey last year....

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