The Fall of the House of Zeus (2010)
“He agreed to join Barrett in Jackson for a meeting with Merrell Williams, who was driving down from Louisville, Kentucky, in the heart of the tobacco kingdom.
Their meeting at a deli just off I-55 in March 1994 triggered mutual suspicion. Scruggs thought Williams flaky and unclear about this mission. Williams feared that Scruggs—about Williams’s age but considerably more composed—was an undercover FBI agent.
Williams had reason to be careful. For some time he had been locked in a legal battle w...ith Brown and Williamson, and details of his plaint against the company had already appeared in newspapers. A few years earlier, while working as a paralegal at a Louisville law firm representing the tobacco giant, Williams had copied hundreds of pages of documents that he believed would reveal a secret campaign by the tobacco industry to hide the deleterious effects of their product. He had leaked some of the papers to investigative journalists and anti-tobacco activists. Thus far, the recipients had been unwilling to use the material because it was stolen.MoreLess
Their meeting at a deli just off I-55 in March 1994 triggered mutual suspicion. Scruggs thought Williams flaky and unclear about this mission. Williams feared that Scruggs—about Williams’s age but considerably more composed—was an undercover FBI agent.
Williams had reason to be careful. For some time he had been locked in a legal battle w...ith Brown and Williamson, and details of his plaint against the company had already appeared in newspapers. A few years earlier, while working as a paralegal at a Louisville law firm representing the tobacco giant, Williams had copied hundreds of pages of documents that he believed would reveal a secret campaign by the tobacco industry to hide the deleterious effects of their product. He had leaked some of the papers to investigative journalists and anti-tobacco activists. Thus far, the recipients had been unwilling to use the material because it was stolen.MoreLess
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