Comments on: Scruggs scandal: Joey Langston charged, cooperating with feds

By: dfgrey

dfgrey — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 22:30:40 +0000

You don’t know anything Jabetha. You’ve obviously never met Joey Langston and I know for a fact that I know him 1 million times better than you. The news is just feeding you BS because everything you’re reading in papers and on here, it’s not what this whole thing is actually about.

So continue to judge and rant on the internet about something you’re so ignorant about, but you aren’t correct.

By: Jabetha

Jabetha — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 11:40:35 +0000

“Yesterday’s guilty plea by Booneville, Miss. attorney Joseph (“Joey”) Langston in the attempted improper influencing of a Mississippi state judge…”

Sure doesn’t sound like Mr. Langston is an amazing man who got “caught up between a rock an a hard place.”

Sounds more to me like he is a criminal. Make NO mistake world, the ‘legalized extortion’ which runs rampant in the state of Mississippi is absolutely killing our economy and continues to keep business from either locating to or staying.

I only wish more investigations such as this would be undertaken.

I wonder if all of the business-owners in Mississippi who have been extorted by these corrupt lawyers in the past can file actions to try and recover any money from them?

By: sfhwejaf

sfhwejaf — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 19:18:01 +0000

Joey Langston just got caught in the middle of a scandal. He is the attorney of the Scruggs and in defending him he had to agree to a term he wouldn’t usually which put him at high risk. Joey Langston is not intentionally hiding or pursuing anything, he just caught up between a rock an a hard place.

Anyone that knows him knows how amazing of a man he is, so do some people a favor and discuss your politics and leave personal insults out of it. It’s horrible enough his family is having to watch this.

By: duaneage

duaneage — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 12:34:39 +0000

We’ll soon see them eat their own.

By: Brian Moore

Brian Moore — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 10:31:45 +0000

Phun Phact: Bobby DeLaughter prosecuted Byron de la Beckwith, the white supremacist who murdered civil rights leader Megder Evers. Alec Baldwin played DeLaughter in the film “Ghosts of Mississippi.”

By: Ted

Ted — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 08:12:24 +0000

I wonder if the fact that Trent Lott is peripherally named in the DeLaughter allegations is enough to finally get the mainstream media involved. This is a gigantic scandal out of a Grisham novel and there’s next to no national coverage.

By: Merrell Williams

Merrell Williams — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 21:01:06 +0000

Coincidentally, the story of Mississippi, et.al., and the big lawyer “heist”
is now published in Brasil.
Jogando Com a Mafia Do Tabaco. LGE Editora. Brasilia, DF, Brasil, [2007]; 285 pgs. Tranlation by Christina Elizabeth Daltro. Distribution is only in Brazilian Portugese, and is presently in national distribution throughout Brasil in the first edition. Odd as it seems,
the release planned for November, 2007, was delayed in production revisions pre-Christmas. The book is an insider view of Mississippi’s so-called Global Settlement. The introduction is by Brasil’s Attorney General, Wagner Goncalves, Subprocurador-Geral da Republica, Ministerio Publico Federal do Brasil. Attorney General Wagner Goncalves
finds that there are a lot of “advogados americanos inescrupulosos”
in the Tobacco Settlement.
Of course, that’s what it’s all about, but you have to know or understand Portugese to “get it”.

By: omega_revelator

omega_revelator — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 20:51:57 +0000

and don’t expect help from FBI, AG, or any other agency in MS if you do decide to own a business in public service in MS…..FBI is non-starter unless “public corruption” or “civl rights”, others all “too busy” [some are “too busy” screwing businesses to advance themselves or their agenda] many times a particular agency may be worse than the criminals you get hit by. MS is getting ready to enter the dark ages with its brand-new one-party system of govt – you ain’t seen nothing yet!

By: Ed Sodaro

Ed Sodaro — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 17:34:50 +0000

The Mississippi lawyer industry is nothing more than a vast organized crime entity.

It is something akin to the competing Five Families of the Mafia, buying judges and politicians.

By: Jabetha

Jabetha — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 11:09:14 +0000

You should try owning and operating a business that services the public here in the ‘fine’ state of Mississippi.