Scruggs Nation, February 26: what of the Balducci-Patterson-Hood meeting?

There was a large number of filings in the USA v. Scruggs case (Northern Mississippi edition) yesterday, but one thing from these documents stuck out like a sweet potatoes deliveryman in a judge's chambers. Check out this passage from one of the exhibits attached to a supplemental Scruggs brief on the validity of the wiretaps in the bribery case.[Balducci] further explained, prior to this March 2007 meeting [where the alleged conspirators allegedly hatched their alleged plot to allegedly bribe Judge Lackey] the [Scruggs Law Firm] was trying to settle some Katrina Insurance cases with the State Farm Insurance Company. SLF and SFIC were near a settlement, however, [Dickie Scruggs] learned that the Mississippi State Attorney Generals office had threatened to indict SFIC due to some imp