Forensic Analysis & Engineering firm settles with Scruggs, to be dismissed from RICO suit

Last we heard from Forensic Analysis & Engineering Corp., a North Carolina outfit that did engineering reports on Katrina damage for State Farm, they were accusing Dickie Scruggs of violating a judicial order not to disseminate information on a computer hard drive Scruggs had obtained from a Forensic employee in July. Forensic got a federal judge to order that Scruggs keep the information, which Forensic said could include valuable proprietary information, to himself. However, two days later, the U.S. Attorney subpoenaed the hard drive in relation to on ongoing investigation -- Forensic was not amused by the timing, saying it did not appear to be a coincidence and that Scruggs may have tipped off the U.S. Attorney that he held the hard drive. (Click here to see a copy of the subp