I’ve just got to ask this again… where IS Balducci???

Word on the street in New Albany is that Scruggs fronted the money for Balducci’s practice when Balducci moved there a couple of year’s back.  As with P.L., Scruggs apparently wanted to keep a stable of scumbags readily available.  He was an excellent judge of character in that regard.

2 cents,

He is very nervous and in hiding. I know that his house was being watched at one time (in New Albany) where he is or his family I do not know. There are a lot of people nervous--some much more nervous than others! I can not believe that this damn thing went on right under our nose.

two cents:  fly has 1st hand knowledge of balducci’s whereabouts, what he can do, where he can go, and who he can talk to on the phone.  balduccis are in serious safe keeping and, hey, i don’t have a problem one with that.

Fly,

What about old P.L. think the feds might be giving him a little tender loving care--he may be the key to the final lock??

You know what happened to that friend of Bill and Hillary’s don’t you? Would the DoJ or Balducci be thinking of that unsolved case? It could be a very valuable negotiating tactic if used properly. “Psst, Tim ole boy. Ya heard about that other attorney that was playing hard and fast with the Big Boys...what was his name?” “Yeah, that’s it, Vinny Forester, Vincent Festus, ....oh no, now I remember Vince Foster.” “Now what say you tell us what you know and who you know....or we’ll just let your ‘friends’ know where you are going to sleep tonight.”

With PL the questions would be the same, EXCEPT with the promise of “We’ll let you tend a small garden for the warden out behind the Big House if you tell us what you know. Otherwise, here’s your copy of an instrumental you’ll recognize, Dueling Banjos, it’s the song made popular by the movie Deliverance.”

Well Shave I think old Timmy B can carry them to other bodies that are buried but P.L. can probably take them to a whole new graveyard.

The Bar should move quickly and with resolve to make sure that those bribing judges are in fact lawyers in good standing.

Balducci’s got a cholesterol problem these days. How many boiled eggs you reckon he ate while pretending to be Paul Newman, just failin’ to commukate? He’s in ‘the hole’.

Balducci and Patterson left Langston with a pocket full of money to open the “mega Democratic” firm. Ostensibly did not need Joey any longer. However, a seat at the Scruggs table would have been a plus.

The more I hear about Patt, the more he appears to be the Mule for the Planters. Why would Tim Bal Associate Patts name to reflect Attorney status?? So many question, so few answers.

Why would Tim Bal Associate Patts name to reflect Attorney status??

Jman, can we conclude that was Balducci’s reasoning? That may have been the result...maybe simply an unintended consequence. Until I started reading this blog, I would have checked the ‘yes’ box beside the question: Do you think Steve Patterson has a law degree? And can we be certain he didn’t have one from Phoenix University?

Well, I did not know whether or not he did or didn’t nor would I spend a second to check for bar membership. In this little P-pullin’ no one can conclude anything. But, thinking like a secular heathen from the brotherhood Balducci, I still can not see the reasoning behind the elevation of Patts name unless it was some payoff for some deed accomplished.

Bal must have known that other firms would see this and ‘check it out’ and, this is precisely what they did. What was the motivation?

Reputedly, they started the firm with a Washington office where a “law group” is not limited to lawyers and just brought the name to Mississippi. Apparently there was never an intent for Patterson to be held out as an attorney. Plus, his son was about to graduate from law school and it was probably thought that this would be the “Patterson” if no one complained early on.

I thought having your name in the name of the law practice implied partnership. I can’t imagine anyone offering a recent law school grad a partnership - so I say hoooeeeyyyy on that idea. Seems more prudent to me that Timmy B should have been called something like “Tim Balducci, Attorney at Law, PLLC”, or something like that and if Patterson had to have his name on something because his ego was only matched by his girth, form an LLC called something like Paterson, Balducci Consulting, LLC, but that’s just me.

Nah............Patts name on that Markee’ had something to do with something......quid-pro-quo guys and gals.

Hi ho, hi ho..............to do some work I go.

This conversation reminds me of the small palace Patterson secured for the state odor-tors office on 55, just northeast of St D. As I recall, he felt the mundane quarters provided previously for his rotund self would have him viewed as a commoner.

There’s a term in the psychiatric handbook, but it escapes me.

Donn wrote"There’s a term in the psychiatric handbook, but it escapes me.” ..........Narcissism comes to mind for the whole dang bunch!

"Delusions of Grandeur”

It seems the Scruggs matter will rapidly become a full-fledged investigation and prosecution of the Mississippi judicial system.  The correspondence between Union County Bar President Steve Livingston and the Bar Association in Folo and the letters gathered by David Rossmiller at <a href="http://www.insurancecoverageblog.com/patterson%20letter%20re%20practice%20of%20law.pdf
“>Insurance Coverage Blog</a> and information about Paul Minor (see wikiscruggs) seem to suggest this:  The real story in this matter is not about Mr. Scruggs but more so about corruption within, and of, the Mississippi judicial system and the judges who make up the system or at least speak for the level of conduct for the judicial system.  It may have been the judicial system itself which laid itself open to bribery and indeed even went so far as to tacitly suggest the use of bribery.

Steve Eugster

How about ‘self-absorbed’.

mister eugster:  talk about getting in on the tail end. we been knowing all that.

eugster seems to blame the whore for the rape.

Rape...........whore............let me go to work for a couple of days and all hell breaks loose.

"Whore” “Rape”—Goodness.  Hardly know what to say.  Let me try this:  I have been bringing cases in Washington for 37 years.  I know no matter how good the case one gets no where unless the system (the judges) will allow the case to proceed in a reasonable fashion.  So, I am thinking, maybe “rape” may not . . . .

eugster:  come again?

shaveswithrazor:  if you have a minute, scroll back a a few. you were s’posed to be on my address list.  something to ponder on, sleep on.  Am I underestimating the man’s coping skills?  weigh in, if you wish.

Which post Fly? I’m always willing to ponder facts/issues and weigh in on topics. Sometimes, even those that don’t matter.

Fly-If you are referring to the post by Mr. Eugster. On a visceral level I would be inclined to summarily dismiss it as a generalized “rage against the machine” type post. However, it does reflect the rising current sentiment and emotion that “current event’s often evoke: which is why I immediately question it. Groups (such as this blog, or those interested in the primary content of the blog) will tend to deviate towards doom when the primary message is one of doom and in the alternative, the opposite deviation towards one of hope when the primary message is one of hope. Common phenonomen=Group think.

Summation: I think the post is indicative of “popular” emotion and not of cognitive thought. This whole “Scruggsia” is an anomaly within the system, NOT indictative of the overall system. (see Subjective validation.)

Hottie Tottie Gosh Amigmty Who the Hell Are We. Ole Miss Lawyers By Damn. Or want-to-be’s.

Mississippians—Help me out.  Is Carroll Hood (HICO) related in any way to James Hood, AG? The Mississippi Supreme Court case involving Carroll Hood as a plaintiff said he was politically connected, or something like that.  Thanks.

Never will forget the day when Ole’ Miss LS grads had to take and actually pass the Barrrrrrrrr Exam. OMG...........THE DREAD OF IT ALL.

Don’t know Carroll Hood. Will Google.

I figure that the money that passed through Langston to Blake from Scruggs, had to have been done with Langston’s (and Balducci’s knowledge) of the ultimate intended source (whom ever that turns out to be).  Knowing that Langston (as well as Balducci) is singing like a bird, it follows that the feds already know the story, and only need to corroborate it through Blake and other sources before going back to the grand jury.

This really feels like, and has to be, the calm before the storm.

Shaver sez: “Groups (such as this blog, or those interested in the primary content of the blog) will tend to deviate towards doom when the primary message is one of doom and in the alternative, the opposite deviation towards one of hope when the primary message is one of hope. Common phenonomen=Group think.”

You would be talking about ‘Group Dynamics’ there, Shaver. You must not have sat through any of Joe Marc McKenzie’s classes before he got booted.

But, what you paint is a landscape of the blind being led along by the hand or of mindless dunces merely echoing the thoughts of their group leader. I see that somewhat, but not predominantly. Well, with the exception of the lawyers. hoho

lawdoc There was a lot of moneyflowing,$10 million up front and $2 million a year for 20 years, and my thougt is that there are several being rewarded.

Yep.  And, I haven’t met the first person who thinks that Blake was the final stop for that money.

reliable insiders down in cayman say a goodly amount of $$ still spinnin’ in their local branch of the langston laundry mat

"Mississippians—Help me out.  Is Carroll Hood (HICO) related in any way to James Hood, AG? The Mississippi Supreme Court case involving Carroll Hood as a plaintiff said he was politically connected, or something like that.  Thanks.

Posted by Steve Eugster”

Carroll Hodd is a ‘businessman’ from around Brookhaven. Not sure how ‘politically connected’ he is anymore or if related to Jim Hood.

About 20 years ago, a Dem governor appointed Carroll Hood to the three member Employment Security Commission where he spent 5 or 6 years in an attempt to staff that entire agency with cronies and children of cronies and friends of cronies and assorted babes.

{Parenthetically, folks like that leave a long lasting stain that takes many years of sunlight and some heavy scrubbing to remove. This relates to the earlier discussion of professions and workplaces being brought into disfavor by incumbents. And how tough it is for the remaining soldiers to overcome it, not unlike the hard work the law profession has before it today.}

Carroll Hodd was very successful at what he did best and managed to fly about the country attending posh meetings on the public dime for some number of years. I’m told his strong suit was sending a cronie to the agency with a note telling them to ‘put this person to work’. Then, throughout that person’s term of employment, they could not be disciplined or counseled and certainly not terminated. I’m also told it was Fordice who managed to ‘roll Hood off’ the Commission when Hood’s rotating term came up for review.

He was a well entrenched Dem player down here at that time and I would imagine still is. Although not as fast around the track as he once was, I’m sure he doesn’t have to get his own plate at the Dem fish fries.

Correction: Hazlehurst, not Brookhaven. And, not knowing of any relationship between the two, Carroll Hood would be roughly the age of the AG’s father.