Richard “Dickie” Scruggs is by now heading to a federal prison in Kentucky, where he’ll be wearing an orange jumpsuit and doing good works like clearing trash along our nation’s highways. Following his sentence of five years in prison, you’d think the worst is over for the King of Torts.

But Dickie has had a long career . . . and there are those of us who suspect his attempted bribery of a judge is not his first offense, but part of a long pattern of suborning justice.

Case in point—PointofLaw.com posts questions from attorneys for State Farm in their defense in McIntosh v. State Farm, a Scruggs’ inspired Katrina lawsuit. The questions shed light on Scruggs’ litigation strategy, something Scruggs apparently referred to as the “Tobacco Playbook”.

In essence, the questions tell the story of how material was stolen from State Farm’s files, Scruggs would then tell the Mississippi AG to issue a subpoena for the stolen material, State Farm couldn’t produce it (since it’d been stolen), and Scruggs would then be able to tell the press, in the words of State Farm attorneys,

“that [State Farm] was shredding or deep sixing or destroying evidence that you knew they didn’t have; isn’t that a fact?”

Can’t wait to see this movie!