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Ex-state senator receives 5 1/2 years

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From Times Wire Reports

Former state Sen. John Ford, once among the state’s most powerful lawmakers, was sentenced in Memphis to 5 1/2 years in prison for bribery.

Ford, 65, was convicted in April of taking $55,000 in bribes from FBI agents posing as dishonest businessmen representing a company called E-Cycle Management.

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