November 30, 2008

It would appear that disgraced Booneville mass tort lawyer Joey Langston is cooperating extensively with prosecutors in the Peters-DeLaughter branch of the Mississippi judicial bribery scandals (via). Both Dickie Scruggs and Judge Bobby DeLaughter have denied wrongdoing in the affair. Langston's sentencing is scheduled for Dec. 16.

P.S. Meanwhile, fighting continues in the presumably unrelated dispute over whether Langston and bribery-scandal figure Timothy Balducci will get to trouser $14 million in fees for representing Mississippi in that cozy little MCI/WorldCom tax dispute.