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You know a guy is a truly corrupt thug when even the Clintons won’t have anything to do with him.

OXFORD, Miss.—A Dec. 15 fundraiser at the Oxford home of attorney Richard “Dickie” Scruggs for the presidential campaign of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and featuring former President Bill Clinton has been canceled, a campaign official said Thursday.

“In light of new developments we have canceled the event,” said Blake Zeff, a campaign spokesman.

Zeff did not elaborate on the announcement.

Scruggs was indicted along with three other attorneys, including his son, who is his law partner, and a former Mississippi auditor. They face charges including one count of defrauding the federal government and two counts of wire fraud.

The indictment made public Wednesday accused Scruggs of conspiring to pay a judge $50,000 to rule in his favor in a lawsuit brought by other attorneys who sought fees for work on Katrina insurance litigation.

So if the Clintons won’t take money raised by Scruggs, when will North Dakota’s Democrats give back the $10,000 in money he poured into their party?  It’s bad enough that the state Democrats are essentially the largest out-of-state special interest group in North Dakota (as compared to the Republicans who actually get most of their campaign money from in-state contributors) but do they have to pay for their campaigns with money from a crook as well?