Scruggs Nation, March 17

If you missed my post from yesterday, go back and read it, it's got a roundup of some of the Scruggs stories of note, some stuff about Jim Hood, some Katrina litigation stuff -- it took me some time to put it together, so I hope you'll find something you like. I'll talk about a couple stories here that I didn't include in that earlier post. One is this story in the Clarion-Ledger in which John Jones, formerly part of the Scruggs Katrina Group and whose attorney fee lawsuit against Scruggs and the SKG firms gave rise to the Scruggs bribery conspiracy, says he was completely shocked by Scruggs' plea agreement. I myself don't think it was very hard to see coming at all.But this part of the story was curious to me, so much so that I read it twice:Although he was a millionaire, Scruggs s