Scrushy Has a Score to Settle

By Dean Foust and Brian Grow

If this were a made-for-TV movie, it would be called Revenge of the CEO. When former HealthSouth (HLSH

) Chairman and Chief Executive Richard Scrushy emerged from a Birmingham (Ala.) courthouse on June 28, acquitted by a jury on all 36 criminal counts brought by the government over his alleged role in a $2.7 billion accounting fraud, the worst of his legal problems were behind him. Now, if Scrushy has his way, it's payback time.

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Cleared of fraud charges, Scrushy is intent on settling the score with HealthSouth, a company he founded in 1984. The board fired him in March, 2003, shortly after the