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Lawyer gets 5 years in bribery attempt

Richard Scruggs, whose successful battle against the tobacco industry in the 1990s made him one of the country’s best-known plaintiff’s lawyers, was sentenced Friday to five years in prison for conspiring to bribe a judge.

Scruggs, 62, pleaded guilty in March for his role in....

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