Special prosecutor reviewing information in Ford criminal investigation
Shelby County Commissioner Edmund Ford Jr. (right, shown in a file photo with commissioners Willie F. Brooks Jr., middle, and David C. Bradford) has said he recused himself when the commission voted on a grant for Junior Achievement of Memphis & the Mid-South. (Mark Weber/Daily Memphian file)
An independent report concluded Ford failed to disclose a county grant he proposed in 2019 would be used to buy computer equipment from Ford totaling $45,000.
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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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