Football Sugar Daddy?

[bomanishus]

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Journalist Curtis Wilkie in his Downfall of the House of Zeus, published next Tuesday, relates in gripping detail the downfall of wealthy trial lawyer Dick Scruggs.<span class="aa"></span></h1><div class="article-bodytext" id="article-bodytext"><div id="artpagination"><div class="c content-wrap"><div class="gel-content" id="__gelement_1"><div class="gel-pane gpagediv" id="GPage1"><div class="articleflex-container"><div class="articleflex"><span class="adlabel-horz"></span>
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<span class="pp"></span>Importantly, he also sheds light on two characters who milked millions from Scruggs' legal entanglements. While Scruggs and five associates were imprisoned for attempted judicial bribery, left unprosecuted were shadowy "Mr. <font style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ccff66">Fixer" P.L. Blake of Greenwood, a onetime Mississippi State football star turned farmer</font>, and Ed Peters, the longtime former Hinds County district attorney.

It goes on to say that Blake got $2 million a year to do this, $50 million overall.

There's your football facility man. I don't htink he'll need the money in prison.</p></div></div></div></div></div>

 

[thedog]

Blake has always been named and associated with Scruggs, but as the quote points out, "unprosecuted."

 

[DudyDog]

dragging this from the 2nd page, but I kept up with all of this pretty closely and remember a pretty funny item that I thought was worth sharing. During the trials, Blake was asked exactly what he did for Scrugg's to warrant a couple mil job on the side since he wasn't directly employed by Scrugg's.

Blake's reply was that Scrugg's had him clip newspaper articles for him. Always thought that was classic.

 

[DirtyLopez]

What did Blake supposedly do for scruggs?

 

[Married to a Dog]

to help Dick when needed. The above quote was actually from a deposition where an attorney that was suing Scruggs over legal fees he owed another lawyer dug up, for the first time, how much Blake got.

I do not want to slander, so let me be clear in saying this next part is strictly rumor. The skuttlebutt is Blake was the guy Dickie used when he needed to grease some hands. He was to provide buffer from Dickie himself. And, there is some circumstantial evidence to that, but I won't bore the crowd here.

Mr. Blake was also convicted of a crime. He mislead a bank to get some loans a long time ago. I found it quite interesting that in that case, he was represented by Senator Fred Thompson.