Mississippi AG: Allegations in unsealed lawsuit were false
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) – Mississippi’s attorney general says allegations in a recently unsealed lawsuit that accused his office of participating in a kickback scheme with a New York firm were false.
The Clarion-Ledger reports that the now-settled 2014 lawsuit filed in New York federal court said that Public Employees’ Retirement System of Mississippi selected the firm, Bernstein, Litowitz, Berger and Grossman LLP, as counsel in a securities lawsuit, and in exchange, attorneys with connections to attorney general’s office employees received legal fees for unnecessary work.
Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood said in a statement that New York attorney Bruce Bernstein last year “recanted” the accusations he made in the lawsuit the year before. He says the judge in the case called them nothing more than allegations.
The case was unsealed in February.
