I can’t even go to lunch without something major happening.  Stand by.  The rumors are coming in fast and furious.

Well dang, Alan, swally that Big Mac and get on back here and DISH, boy!

Closer and closer to Hood....

I’d like for an attorney to consider and answer the following for me:

If Joey Langston has been retained by Dickie Scruggs as his counsel in the legal matter involving the criminal indictment before the Federal US Court in Oxford, isn’t there some sort of attorney-client privelege that would apply?  And if so, does that attorney-client privelege only apply to the matter that Langston would have been retained to handle, i.e., the matter in Oxford?

I guess the reason I’m asking is that, if there is some sort of attorney-client privelege there, then the reasonable deduction is that this raid pertains to something else.  Perhaps it’s the MCI deal, that Balducci might be telling them about?  Perhaps other judges that Balducci is saying were bribed?

I’m just thinking out loud, and I felt like the first thing that I should get clear is that attorney-client privelege question that I had.

Thanks for the assist…

not unless he is taking part in the criminal enterprise.

lotus, you’re facts are wrong. Alan been cleaning up, losing weight. Its now subway or grilled chicken sammich from backyard for him.

I think this is a pretty clear result of Balducci singing like a canary . . . i.e. giving the feds a roadmap to where all the bodies are buried.  Remember, Balducci was in a law firm partnership with Langston.

When the Feds make copies of things, its cooperative.  When the Feds sieze documents, that’s pretty damning.  Unconfirmed reports are that boxes of files are being carted out.  That’s not a good sign.

Whatever kinda sammich, kingfish, I hope he enjoyed it and is ready to fork over to us’uns what he’s hearing about those cartings-out and whatnot.

Has any news source tried to call Jim Hood for comment?  Are they not doing it, not reporting his reluctance to talk, or just being lazy?  Anybody know?

I know his office is being peppered by WSJ and a couple of top flight bloggers.  I assume that CL and Sun Herald have been trying.

You would now think, if recent history is any indication, that Langston will be indicted (if their M.O. is the same as with Scruggs).  It may take a little longer, but I think that’s the path we may be on.

Watch for Farese.

That’s would seem to be the case, Alan.  I seriously doubt that any judge would issue the search warrant, if there wasn’t some pretty damning information put in front of that judge by the US Attorney’s office, given the attorney-client privelege issue that I mentioned as a question in an earlier post.

So, just to have his office raided, the information presented would have had to pass a pretty high test by the judge, I would think.

I’m not sure that it will be that long for an indictment to be handed down, if a federal grand jury is still sitting.

That’s pretty cryptic, DWF.  Watch for what with Farese?

WOW, Al Hopkins looks pretty good right now.

I predict the Farese firm will be retained by Langston and Scruggs if it hasn’t been already.

The newspapers and tv stations are on the story and in downtown Booneville.  The agents conducting the raid or executing the warrant had lunch at FISHERS.  They don’t seem to be in any hurry.

They have a fairly large truck, little bigger than a pickup, parked at the back of the Langston office and are occasionally bringing boxes out. 

Everyone should keep in mind that plea bargaining is available to everyone, but the first to cooperate gets the best housing.  (could stay at home)

Can anyone tell me how to access the Red / Blue Blog on the Clarion Ledger or has it ben abolished?

Besides Mikey and Jimmy the Hair you have to wonder how many other politicos are uneasy these days.  Read in one of the new depositions posted today over @ Rossmiller’s place Scruggs specifically noting that Bennie Thompson developed a special interest in the tobacco proceedings and that ScuggsCo had several meetings with the man from the 2nd.

Farese turned Dickie down, but accepted Zach as a client earlier

Because as Mikey proved via his Partnership PAC’s annual generosity to the LBC’s FEED front org, spreading the benefits (wealth) goes a long, long way towards keeping one’s knowledgeable “friends” pacified and looking the other way.

Balduci is a wanna be.  He has wanted to be a big time plaintiff’s lawyer and has done whatever he thought would help him.  I am sure he is being just as grandiose in the role of FBI informant.  it would be hard for me to believe anything that comes out of his mouth.

I’m sure the FBI would want more than just a story.

What makes you so sure the information that lead to the search warrant on Langston’s office came from Balducci? 

He was cooperating several weeks before the indictment of Scruggs; et al.  If it was information from him, wouldn’t they have served it earlier?

I’m thinking another domino fell over.

Meanwhile it looks like Scruggs’ Cali team will need to make some new travel plans.

I keep looking and waiting and waiting but I wonder how long it will be before we hear some news about dickies brother in law poor o boy Lott.

His resigning his seat so early in the game has to mean something other than “I’m just wanting to do something else”

Sid Salter’s blog says that Joey Langston’s house was searched, in addition to his office.  But Tony Farese said all they wanted were the files that Balducci worked on when he was with the Langston firm.  This doesn’t add up.

Dream on, rookie… you can attempt to taint the jury, all you want, but the cards are being dealt, and it’s a pretty bad hand already.

I think you are 100% correct Jake.  Lott did not resign by coincidence.  I wonder how many tapes his voice came up on?

No one as of yet has mentioned this, so I will.
While we are looking for more folks who have been “flipped” by the FEDS couldn’t it be someone who:
-is sitting on a potentially long prison term
-feels he was “selectively prosecuted.”
-knows this entire group of attorneys and judges very well
-might even know where some of the “bodies are buried.’
-And finally, feels he was thrown under the bus by Dickie in his own trial.
Perhaps, Paul is singing.
Thoughts?

Minor’s counsel was very vocal about why he was indicted and Scruggs wasn’t.  I don’t suspect there is any love lost between Minor and Scruggs.

I think you are 100% correct Fyodor1.  I actually thought that Minor went very quietly to prison.  Scruggs gift of immunity in the case against him certainly had to make him a bit PO’ed. I bet he is telling exactly what has been going on for years and not leaving out any names.  I wonder if the intake of Imodium AD has gone up in certain judicial chambers and law offices since the indictment of Scruggs and friends?

The absolute silence of Jim Hood has been telling.  Hood, who had to be in front of a camera almost daily tells much.  He and Scruggs and Moore and Lott and all of the other characters had a good thing going.  But as is the case with all good things, they must come to an end.