Two Mississippi Judges, Trial Lawyer Get Multi Year Prison Sentences

Business Insurance reports:

• "A prominent Mississippi trial lawyer and two state judges have been sentenced to prison for bribery schemes that included fixing a local bank’s bad-faith claim against insurer United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. Jackson, Miss.-based Chief U.S. District Judge Henry T. Wingate last Friday sentenced Paul S. Minor, a past president of the Mississippi Trial Lawyers Assn., to 11 years and prison and fined him $2.7 million. The judge also sentenced Walter W. Teel, a former state chancery court judge, to five years and 10 months in jail and John H. Whitfield, a former state circuit judge, to nine years and two months. A federal jury in Jackson convicted the three men in March on all 14 charges against them, including bribery, racketeering and fraud."

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