Bribery Charges Taint Colorful Lawyer -- Scruggs Built Reputation Defending Little Guy

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NEW ORLEANS - Richard "Dickie" Scruggs has carefully crafted an image as an aw-shucks country lawyer who champions the little guy in David-and-Goliath legal battles.

But in truth, Scruggs is himself a giant - a legend of the Mississippi bar, a supremely well-connected political insider, and one of the richest men in one of the poorest states in the Union, having made hundreds of millions of dollars from taking on Big Tobacco and asbestos and insurance companies.

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Bribery Charges Taint Colorful Lawyer -- Scruggs Built Reputation Defending Little Guy

Now he faces the fight of his life over a relatively modest $50,000 - the amount federal prosecutors say the 61-year-old Scruggs offered to a Mississippi judge as a bribe.

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