The Fall of the House of Zeus by Curtis Wilkie (Crown, October 19, 2010)
“In the fall of 1995, Scruggs called upon his best contact in the nation’s capital, his brother-in-law, the second ranking Republican in the U.S. Senate. He told Senator Lott of a possible breakthrough against tobacco . . .” (60)
“The tobacco issue did not thrill Lott. As a deeply conservative, pro-business lawyer, he was philosophically opposed to the profession of trial lawyers and the idea of mass torts. Over the years, he had become friends with many of the chieftains in the tobacco industry. But like his brother-in-law, Lott enjoyed swimming in political back channels and consummating deals behind closed doors. There could be something in it for him. A business connection. A political IOU. The satisfaction of brokering an important agreement.”
“The process would introduce Scruggs to the Washington branch of the Mississippi network he thought of as ‘the dark side of the Force,’ a consortium of political interests led by Lott and his principal factotum in Washington, Tom Anderson.” (61)
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