Justice for Sale: How Big Tobacco and the GOP teamed up to crush Democrats in the South

By Larisa Alexandrovna and Muriel Kane, Raw Story

Almost immediately after his appointment as US Attorney for the Southern District of Mississippi in late 2001, Dunnica Lampton began to investigate key Mississippi Democrats.

Trial lawyer and major Democratic campaign contributor Paul Minor (photo at right) quickly became a target of such an investigation. Minor, one of the largest Democratic donors in the South and the largest in Mississippi, would quickly find himself in the midst of a political firing line. READ MORE.