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Zach Scruggs’ stay in Lafayette jail indefinite

The U.S. Bureau of Prisons apparently has reined in former attorney Zach Scruggs to remind him he’s still a federal prisoner.

Scruggs, 34, of Oxford caused such a stir last week, as he was seen passing through town from an Arkansas prison to a Tupelo halfway house, that BOP apparently reassigned him to the Lafayette County Jail to think about it.

“The Bureau of Prisons just jerked his chain,” observed an attorney close to the case, who asked not to be identified.

The son of Richard “Dickie” Scruggs, also a federal prisoner, pleaded guilty in March 2008 for his part in a scheme to bribe Circuit Judge Henry Lackey of Calhoun City. Zach Scruggs was sentenced to 14 months in prison and moved to a transition facility so that he could work and prepare for release by mid-August.

Earlier published reports stated he was re-arrested by BOP because he failed to meet his 2 p.m. sign-in Tuesday in Tupelo.

But his Oxford attorney, Cal Mayo, disputed that report and other details, saying his client actually reported 15 minutes early.

NE MS Daily Journal
3/3/9

Posted March 3, 2009 - 5:35 am

2 Comments:

He might have reported to Tupelo on time, but I would bet that the instructions given to him for traveling did not include a strut around the square in Oxford. While he was going to a halfway house, he still is a federal prisoner. A quite sandwich at home with his wife might have passed muster, but not sauntering around checking out the status of the locks on the front door of the old Scruggs Law Office building.

Posted by grasshopper on 03-03-2009 at 03:38 PM [link]

Did we miss something here? Are Dickie and Zack in the same jail now? If this is right then maybe, just maybe, it was planned this way all along. One has to believe Zack got a “special deal” when he was set up to go to the half-way house because his daddy agreed to talk to the Feds.
Maybe Zack’s short-lived freedom, so to speak, was done for affect; that much depends on whether Dickie tells the Feds what they want to know....like where did all the tobacco money go? Is P.L. the bag man or the boggie man? Etc.etc.

Posted by catty on 03-03-2009 at 10:43 PM [link]

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