Lott accused of encouraging witnesses to give false information.
By on Jul 30th, 2008 at 10:03 pm
Lott accused of encouraging witnesses to give false information.
Former Mississippi senator Trent Lott, who left Congress last year to become a lobbyist, is alleged to have “urged witnesses to give false information in a Hurricane Katrina lawsuit.” In a sworn deposition last week, an attorney for State Farm Fire & Casualty Cos. asked Lott’s nephew, Zach Scruggs, who had represented the former senator after his house was destroyed by Katrina, if it had been his “custom and habit in prosecuting litigation to have Senator Lott contact and encourage witnesses to give false information?” “I invoke my Fifth Amendment rights in response to that question,” replied Scruggs.
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republicans lying? what’s next, jim wilke posting a non-sequitur about obama?
July 30th, 2008 at 10:06 pmOuch! Another felony chalked up to the Republicriminals. These guys aren’t just trashing the “party of accountability”. They are strangling it and burying it in BS.
July 30th, 2008 at 10:12 pmThank god there weren’t any blowjobs.
July 30th, 2008 at 10:13 pmHe wants a fifth? Of Scotch?
July 30th, 2008 at 10:18 pmNow we know why Trent retired so abruptly. Didn’t Ted Stevens get his warning? I thought the plan was to tip off the guilty so they could spend time with their families. Why does Ted hate his family?
Oh, that’s right. Email is a bit beyond Ted’s abilities.
July 30th, 2008 at 10:35 pmInvoking the fifth!? wow…
Isn’t this subornation of perjury?
July 30th, 2008 at 10:38 pmI meant to say “Isn’t what Lott did subornation of perjury?”
July 30th, 2008 at 10:39 pmThis explains a Lott.
July 30th, 2008 at 10:55 pmSomehow, I don’t think Trent planned on the time he spends with his family being behind bars. I wonder what the rest of the clan has been up to?
July 30th, 2008 at 11:03 pmMcCain campaign: Don’t listen to McCain. No joke. Really. You probably heard this already. But let’s seriously think about what this means: http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/7/30/211014/271/656/559705
July 30th, 2008 at 11:06 pmZach Scruggs? Didn’t he sing the Beverly Hillbillies theme?
July 30th, 2008 at 11:25 pmPlatt and Scruggs
Very fine upstanding musicians who would have had nothing to do with scalawags and carpetbaggers like the Lott clan.
July 30th, 2008 at 11:32 pmHe’s a Repug, it’s what they do.
makes the scorpions honest.
July 30th, 2008 at 11:38 pmgummitch 10:13 pm – Excellent! LOL! (So far!)
pete – 10:35 pm – And yet Ted is the Ranking Member (or, in his case, Rancourous Member) of the very committee that oversees the Internets (that famous “series of tubes”). Now that he has been indicted, he should be forced to step down from his committee assignments. The Internets can finally be brought into the 21st Century. Ted can stay in his own.
July 30th, 2008 at 11:46 pm“I invoke my Fifth Amendment rights in response to that question,” replied Scruggs.
After what the Republicans have done to the Constitution it’s a wonder they can even say “rights” with a straight face.
http://progressiveworldreview.com
July 30th, 2008 at 11:46 pmOh, jeez, you guys are hysterical, thanks for the laughs. Gummitch, bravo!
July 30th, 2008 at 11:46 pmtrent loot?
there is no god!
:)
July 30th, 2008 at 11:57 pmGummitch’s comment was a goodie.
July 30th, 2008 at 11:59 pmbtw -
right on gummitch/
total troll disinfectant.
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July 31st, 2008 at 12:09 amThere must be some repugnicans who have integrity, but I don’t know where they are.
July 31st, 2008 at 12:10 amEveyone is susceptible to corruption, but the preponderance of corrupt repugs in government is a pretty high statistic.
It seems to be rampant.
Marie,
i rate lincoln
and teddy roosevelt
pretty high.
after them it’s been a
sharp decline.
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thank you.
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July 31st, 2008 at 12:13 amgummitch must have set a TP record for the highest ratio of “recommends” to number of comments EVAH!
Well done.
July 31st, 2008 at 12:33 amRalph, don’t encourage him, now he’ll include the word “blowjobs” in every comment! ;)
July 31st, 2008 at 12:41 amI’m surprised that term isn’t on the TP hitlist, what with its connection to the Clinton legacy.
July 31st, 2008 at 12:44 amIn my humble an alley sis.
just don’t anole eyes the blowjob
July 31st, 2008 at 1:06 amReally everyone is now days indulge in corruption so nothing new has done by republicans.
Ryan
July 31st, 2008 at 1:12 am============================
http://www.treatmentcenters.org/colorado
If you are a Republican . . . you are a criminal. It is required. They are the scourge and scum of the Earth. Thank god that once the baby Boomer generation finally dies off the Rethugs will be no more.
July 31st, 2008 at 1:15 amI’m not surprised they can say ANYTHING with a straight face. I am, however, effing amazed they don’t burst into flames when the say “ethics”, “responsibility”, “morality”, or “character”.
Who would have ever thought that “God’s party” would do so much to disprove the likelihood of that gentleman’s existence? Because the Buy-bull I read featured a God that would have sent these creeps to Hell, or turned them into slime molds, decades ago.
But there they are. Waging unjustifiable war on God’s Creations and not so much as a boil between them. Though I suppose that God may have stunted their hearts and brains as some kind of punishment, so far it just seems to have made them more impervious to rational counsel.
July 31st, 2008 at 1:37 amGuys I’d LOVE to jump on the Lott-bashing bandwagon but in this case I’d consider who’s asking the questions and advise caution. The insurance industry posted record profits in the wake of Katrina and screwed New Orleans and the Mississippi coast in the process. Scruggs has been helping people get back at these dishonest companies who are exempt from antitrust legislation. The “anti-concurrent-causation clause” in many of the Gulf Coasters’ policies allowed that even if they were covered for flood they received NO PAYMENT FOR FLOOD if wind ALSO happened. And that’s just the tip.
Scruggs has his problems, no doubt. But he’s clean as a newborn babe compared to what State Farm did in the coast.
Make no mistakes. Whatever Scruggs has done this tidbit is about getting the guy who was getting the insurance companies.
July 31st, 2008 at 3:19 amWayne A. Schneider Says:
pete – 10:35 pm – And yet Ted is the Ranking Member (or, in his case, Rancourous Member) of the very committee that oversees the Internets (that famous “series of tubes”). Now that he has been indicted, he should be forced to step down from his committee assignments. The Internets can finally be brought into the 21st Century. Ted can stay in his own.
He aleady has, I believe. Anyway, shed a tear for his poor constituents:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/30/AR2008073003358_2.html?hpid=topnews&sid=ST2008073100024&pos=
July 31st, 2008 at 5:36 amAnd Lott’ll get away with it, too, because all thge other corrupt politicians, left, right, and center, will do little or nothing.
July 31st, 2008 at 8:26 amWilliam Jefferson is crook so it’s OK for Lott and hundreds of Republicans to be crooks?
July 31st, 2008 at 8:46 amWow! It took 10 hours and 36 minutes for a Republican apologist to invoke William Jefferson in defense of yet another in the seemingly endless line of criminal Republicans.
I guess the RNC troll center just opened.
July 31st, 2008 at 8:52 amshoeless Says:
Wow! It took 10 hours and 36 minutes for a Republican apologist to invoke William Jefferson in defense of yet another in the seemingly endless line of criminal Republicans.
JK’s internet tubes must have been clogged. /snicker
July 31st, 2008 at 8:57 amWhen “William Jefferson” is all there is in defense of craven Republican criminal actions, it’s gonna be a tough November for our “conservative” friends, my friends.
July 31st, 2008 at 8:57 amI feel for William Jefferson, he must be weary of having to be continually propped up as the poster child of Democratic corruption against the endless stream of Republican crooks and con men.
July 31st, 2008 at 8:59 amThis could have all been overlooked if Trent had decided to lobby for the insurance industry instead of the drug industry.
July 31st, 2008 at 9:10 amAnd like a good neighbor, State Farm is…gone!
July 31st, 2008 at 9:29 amJohn Kerry Says:
“ALLEGED:
3 : accused but not proven or convicted
Hmm!!! For some reason you libs don’t seem to know what words mean!!
Thanks,
William Jefferson (D)”
Apparently, neither do you, assclown. Please provide the link to the article stating jefferson has been TRIED & CONVICTED.
July 31st, 2008 at 10:09 amActually I have seen this particular bulldog attorney question our Attorney General Jim Hood on the stand and he asks questions like how many times did you beat your wife last night. He’s dreaming up the conspiracy. First it was Dickie and Jim Hood in cahoots against State Farm and then they find out that Dickie had to pay someone to try to get Hood to back off of State Farm and now we’re back to another wild-assed conspiracy made up out of hole cloth.
July 31st, 2008 at 10:51 amThese Republican morons can’t grasp the idea that by constantly comparing the lone Democrat accused of wrongdoing to the endless stream of corrupt Republicans, they are continually highlighting the stark difference between the overwhelming integrity of Democrats, and the systemic criminality of the Republican Party.
These days, it seems that being a member of the GOP is like being in the Mafia. You must be a criminal, or the other Republicans won’t trust you. Looks like the only “honest” Republicans are the ones who haven’t yet been caught.
July 31st, 2008 at 10:57 amOf course there is the legal problem of seperating out how much was perjury and how much was witness tampering.
But what about the fact that even very, very, recently, the republiscum have lauded Lott for being such a fine citizen. This is after so much of his dealings have become public.
as JMOHR listed in another thread, we need to make this a campaign issue.
July 31st, 2008 at 12:39 pmA troll offering the “innocent until proven guilty” defense? Absolutely priceless!
They do realize that Saddam, the Taliban, and hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqis and Afghans were not judged by that standard. Don’t they?
Heck! Their boy George could still accomplish much more towards removing the rights of the accused. Perhaps it would take being delivered to a secret foreign prison to wake these clowns up? How about if their kids were shot on the spot for failing to show enough enthusiasm for the “leader”?
July 31st, 2008 at 1:07 pm