John Ford: "You're in the best hands."

Memphis Commercial Appeal ^ | 4/13/7 | Cindy Wolff

[SmithL]

The prosecution in the John Ford bribery trial today continued to whittle through its cart stacked with dozens of audio and video surveillance tapes showing then State Sen. Ford accepting money for creating a bill that favored a shell company created by the FBI.

A video showed Ford helping an undercover special agent who goes by the name L.C. McNeil count out $5,000. During the meeting, Ford takes a phone call from an official with the Memphis Grizzlies who tells the senator there are four tickets to the R. Kelly concert waiting for him at will call. Ford said he got the tickets for McNeil.

"I got your back. I got your front. I got your injured knee," Ford told McNeil, referring to a knee injury from which the agent was recovering.

McNeil asked Ford about a conversation they had months earlier when Ford mentioned that he could help E-Cycle, the shell company, get contracts with the City of Memphis and Shelby County because he has brothers on City Council and County Commission.

But this time, Ford said his brothers can’t help, that they would have to talk to Mayor W.W. Herenton and County Mayor A C Wharton Jr. to get contracts with those governments.

At one point, Ford tells McNeil to send him a "lil’ money." McNeil said he would give Ford more money the next time he was back in Memphis.

Ford outlined for McNeil the procedure for introducing a bill to the General Assembly that wouldn’t raise red flags.

"You’re in good hands. In fact, you’re in the best hands," Ford said.

[SmithL]

Those hands were in a lot of pockets.

[Buck W.]

What a scum. I’d like to see the whole Ford family, and Herenton and Wharton, go down with him.

[Red Badger]

You’re in good hands, with Al’s state...........

[SootyFoot2]

I can hardly wait to see how the MSM blows this story up and exposes everyone connected with Ford’s bribery! Do you suppose that will happen before the second coming????

[GailA]

He like all his ilk say he's for the little guy, the vunerable...yet in this deal he cut with ECycle they would have received favored treatment over needy public schools.