OK, maybe a better subject line would have been “can we make this go away so I can fight the bribery charge?” Quoting Insurance Journal:
Attorneys for Mississippi attorney Richard “Dickie” Scruggs asked a federal judge to dismiss criminal contempt charges that he ignored a court order to turn over documents about insurance claims after Hurricane Katrina.[...]
A defense lawyer told U.S. District Judge C. Roger Vinson that Scruggs hopes to put the Katrina case to rest and concentrate on unrelated federal charges filed in Oxford, Miss., where Scruggs is accused of conspiring to bribe a judge in a dispute over $26.5 million in legal fees.
“We just want to get out of here and go deal with the problems in Mississippi,” Scruggs attorney John W. Keker said during a hearing.