By
The Associated Press
.
Published: Wed, July 02, 2008 - 10:37 am
Last Updated: Wed, July 02, 2008 - 10:41 am
OXFORD, Miss. (AP) - Zach Scruggs was sentenced today to 14months in prison for knowing about a Mississippi judicial bribery
scandal and not reporting it to authorities.
The sentence included a $250,000 fine and seemed to surprise
Scruggs. Prosecutors had recommended probation for misprision of a
felony, which meant he had knowledge of a crime and didn't report
it.
Zach Scruggs and his father, Richard "Dickie" Scruggs, and a
law partner were indicted in November after an associate secretly
recorded conversations about a plan to bribe a judge.
Dickie Scruggs was sentenced last Friday to five years in prison
and a $250,000 fine. His former law partner, Sidney Backstrom, was
sentenced to two years and four months in prison and fined
$250,000.
(Copyright 2008 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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