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URL: http://www.commercialappeal.com/mca/local/article/0,2845,MCA_25340_5480525,00.html

Ford's Rolex ruled eligible for admittance into evidence

April 12, 2007
U.S. District Judge Daniel Breen has ruled prosecutors can admit into evidence a $45,000 Rolex wristwatch taken from former State. Sen. John Ford at the time of his arrest on bribery charges.

According to FBI surveillance tapes, Ford claims he received the watch for doing a favor for Memphis developer Rusty Hyneman, saving him nearly $1.5 million in fees. In one tape, undercover agent L.C. McNeil, now on the witness stand in federal court, spots Ford’s diamond-encrusted gold watch — complete with pieces of a space rock – and tells the politician: "You’ve been bling, blinging all night long."

[GailA]

Good news.