Zach Scruggs’s Latest Lawyer, Ex-Miss AG Mike Moore

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All eyes still glued on the Mess in Mississippi were wondering if Zach Scruggs, son of Dickie, would follow in his father’s footsteps today and plea in the judicial bribery case pending against him in federal court in Oxford, Miss. Instead, we see he’s retained another lawyer, none other than Mike Moore, the ex-AG of the state. Here’s the notice of of entry of appearance. HT: folo.wordpress.com.

We caught up with Todd Graves, the former U.S. attorney who’s been representing Zach. He and Mike Moore, he says, have been “working together on this. Mike will be trying the case with me and Nathan Garrett,” a colleague of Graves’s.

Mike Moore sent this prepared statement from his office:
“I have known Zach Scruggs since he was a little boy. He asked me to represent him should his case ever get to trial. Zach is innocent of the charges pressed against him, and we look forward to his exoneration.”