A Mississippi attorney convicted of conspiring to influence a judge in a major judicial bribery case has been sentenced to three years in federal prison.
Attorney Joey Langston was sentenced Tuesday after pleading guilty in January to trying to intervene in a lawsuit against well-known plaintiffs' lawyer Richard "Dickie" Scruggs.
The 51-year-old Langston received the maximum sentence recommended by prosecutors and was also fined $250,000.
Scruggs, who took on tobacco companies for a record $206 billion settlement, went to prison in August for conspiring to bribe another Mississippi judge in a separate case linked to the same complex investigation.
Prosecutors recommended the sentence based on Langston's help in the investigation against Scruggs.
