NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- A former Tennessee state senator has been sentenced to 14 years in prison for accepting more than $800,000 from companies and pushing for laws that favored them.

John Ford of Memphis is already serving a 5 1/2-year federal sentence for a separate conviction of taking bribes from undercover FBI agents.

U.S. District Judge Todd J. Campbell sentenced Ford Monday on two counts of wire fraud and four counts of making false statements on official documents.

Ford had argued at trial that he was paid to consult out of state for the two companies, but he acknowledged that he promoted issues that favored them in the Tennessee Legislature.

Ford is a member of a politically prominent family in Memphis and was once one of the most powerful lawmakers in the state.

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John Ford (politician - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

See ya, John!!!

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God is a conservative -

Ecclesiastes 10:2--"A wise man's heart inclines him to the right, but a fool's heart to the left."

I see he's from the party of unknown affiliation...

I guess that means we know what party he's from now...

Thanks media!...

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Hmmm.... Maybe that's why I included the Wiki link...

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Our nation has not always lived up to its ideals, yet those ideals have never ceased to guide us. They expose our flaws, and lead us to mend them. We are the beneficiaries of the work of the generations before us and it is each generation's responsibility to continue that work. - Laura Bush

God is a conservative -

Ecclesiastes 10:2--"A wise man's heart inclines him to the right, but a fool's heart to the left."