{"id":1602,"date":"2007-11-29T14:39:34","date_gmt":"2007-11-29T21:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=1602"},"modified":"2007-12-04T19:34:44","modified_gmt":"2007-12-05T02:22:44","slug":"trent-lott%e2%80%99s-resignation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=1602","title":{"rendered":"Trent Lott"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bigheaddc.com\/\">BigHeadDC reports<\/a>: &quot;&ldquo;A federal grand jury has indicted prominent attorney<strong> Richard &ldquo;Dickie&rdquo; Scruggs<\/strong> on criminal charges that he and other lawyers engaged in a scheme to bribe a judge,&rdquo; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myeyewitnessnews.com\/news\/local\/story.aspx?content_id=f55d23cc-3137-47e4-88a3-5197612873c6\">the AP reports<\/a>. Scruggs is the brother-in-law of Sen. <strong>Trent Lott<\/strong>, who abruptly announced his resignation from office on Monday with little explanation. A gay escort later <a href=\"http:\/\/bigheaddc.com\/2007\/11\/26\/trent-lott-fallout-the-gay-escort-who-knew-too-much\/\">alleged<\/a> on <strong>Big Head DC <\/strong>a <a href=\"http:\/\/bigheaddc.com\/2007\/11\/27\/the-e-mails-benjamin-nicholas-says-he-didnt-send\/\">possible relationship with the soon-to-be ex-senator<\/a>.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BigHeadDC reports: &quot;&ldquo;A federal grand jury has indicted prominent attorney Richard &ldquo;Dickie&rdquo; Scruggs on criminal charges that he and other lawyers engaged in a scheme to bribe a judge,&rdquo; the AP reports. Scruggs is the brother-in-law of Sen. Trent Lott, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=1602\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}