As criminal investigation continues, Ford challenges journalists, commission chair
The 2019 Junior Achievement grant sponsored by Shelby County Commissioner Edmund Ford Jr. (right in 2019) is still being investigated by a special prosecutor almost a year after the prosecutor was appointed. (Mark Weber/Daily Memphian file)
Edmund Ford Jr. said he was “sort of offended” after an executive from The Commercial Appeal complained to the commission over Ford’s treatment of a reporter.
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