Ford sentencing delayed several times as County Commission seats turn over
Shelby County Commissioner Edmund Ford, Jr. looks down after a groundbreaking for the revitalization of the former Southwest Twin site in Westwood on May 16, 2025. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian file)
As eight Shelby County commissioners prepare to leave office at the end of August, the federal corruption case of former commissioner Edmund Ford Jr., who resigned earlier this year, is still on its way to sentencing.
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Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for almost 50 years covering a wide variety of stories from the 1977 death of Elvis Presley and the 1978 police and fire strikes to numerous political campaigns, every county mayor and every Memphis Mayor starting with Wyeth Chandler.
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