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Ford set to report to Texas prison Oct. 17
Memphis Commercial Appeal ^ | 9/19/7 | Marc Perrusquia

Posted on 09/19/2007 12:34:59 PM PDT by SmithL

Former state senator John Ford, who was convicted of bribery last month, has been ordered to report Oct. 17 to the federal prison in Anthony, Texas.

The order of surrender was issued this week, a month after U.S. Dist. Judge J. Daniel Breen had sentenced Ford to 66 months. With good behavior, he could get out in about four and a half years.

Yet Ford, 65, a savvy Memphis Democrat who dominated the city’s legislative delegation for three decades, has one more card to play.

Ford faces an Oct. 1 hearing, when he will ask to remain free while he litigates an appeal.

“We’re just trying to get a bond pending appeal,’’ said his attorney, Robert C. Brooks. “We need time to get the transcripts.’’

Ford needs copies of trial transcripts — something that could cost taxpayers $8,000 or more — to see if procedural errors were made in his prosecution. A jury found him guilty in April of taking $55,000 in bribes in the FBI’s Tennessee Waltz undercover sting. Fords contends he was entrapped.

Brooks said sending Ford to prison now also would handicap his ability to prepare a defense against separate corruption charges he faces in Nashville. Ford will go to trial there Nov. 6, accused of concealing $800,000 he received from state contractors.

The prison Ford is headed to, the Federal Correctional Institution-La Tuna, is a minimum-security prison on the Texas-New Mexico border, about 12 miles north of El Paso.

(Excerpt) Read more at commercialappeal.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; US: Tennessee
KEYWORDS: corruptfamily; cultureofcorruption; fordfraud; johnford; memphis; tnwaltz

1 posted on 09/19/2007 12:35:03 PM PDT by SmithL
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To: SmithL
"Brooks said sending Ford to prison now also would handicap his ability to prepare a defense against separate corruption charges he faces in Nashville."

Interesting approach, your honor my client cannot go to jail he's in too much trouble with the law.

2 posted on 09/19/2007 12:37:47 PM PDT by hometoroost (TSA = Thousands Standing Around)
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To: SmithL

Bring your own KY jelly Mr. Ford.


3 posted on 09/19/2007 12:48:47 PM PDT by shankbear (Al-Qaeda grew while Monica blew)
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To: shankbear
Bring your own KY jelly Mr. Ford

Kentucky makes jelly? what kind?

4 posted on 09/19/2007 12:52:26 PM PDT by NativeSon (off the Rez without a pass...)
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To: NativeSon

Not exactly. He will have some bootybuddies there for sure.


5 posted on 09/19/2007 1:01:59 PM PDT by shankbear (Al-Qaeda grew while Monica blew)
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To: SmithL

Wow they actually mentioned his party affiliation.

If a Democrat, no affiliation is mentioned. If a Republican, it appears in the headline.


6 posted on 09/19/2007 1:17:55 PM PDT by joonbug
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To: SmithL
Isn’t Anthony, Texas, the prison that Billie Sol Estes is an alumn?
7 posted on 09/19/2007 2:50:13 PM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: shankbear

La Tuna is a *very* nasty place to get sent to. Overcrowded and run by Latino gangs.


8 posted on 09/19/2007 4:02:38 PM PDT by txzman (Jer 23:29)
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To: SmithL

About time...wonder if his ex-mrs will vist him? But then again she may be in a local cell from her third DUI..BTW she was on probation from her second one...and had a 2 year old in the car to boot.


9 posted on 09/20/2007 4:29:09 AM PDT by GailA (I'm proud to admit I'm a quilt-aholic....Run Fred Run!)
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