Compass needed. Apply in Tennessee. (After you’re done in Ottawa.)
Lawmakers arrested in fed bribery probe
FBI launched bogus company to root out influence peddling
A state senator already under scrutiny for ethical allegations, was indicted today on bribery charges along with three lawmakers, a former lawmaker and two others in a federal probe of his business dealings.
Tennessee state Sen. John Ford, a Memphis Democrat from a powerful political family, is charged with the five others for taking bribes from undercover investigators to influence legislation concerning a sham company set up by the FBI.
Ford and former state Sen. Roscoe Dixon appeared in federal court today handcuffed and shackled at the ankles, according to The Tennessean newspaper.
“He’s shocked as you can imagine,” Ford’s lawyer, Martin Grusin, told the paper. “He’s upset.”
Ford, who heads the Senate committee that guides Tennessee’s child welfare policies, was under the spotlight earlier this year for trying to make personal use of a law he authored that keeps court-ordered support lower when a father is financially responsible for other children.
The senator testified in a juvenile court hearing in November that he maintains two households, living with two different women whose five children he has fathered.
Ford said he pays nearly all the bills for both families and argued he can’t afford to pay any more court-ordered support for a third woman, the mother of another 10-year-old girl he fathered. […]
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