Dapper former State Senator John Ford now has a court-appointed public defender to handle at least one of his cases.
A publicly funded attorney will defend Ford on charges of taking over $800,000 in consultant payments from TennCare contractors during the time he was in the State Senate.
He has pleaded not guilty to those charges.
The former senator from Memphis once made hundreds of thousands of dollars per year as a consultant and was known at the state capital for designer clothing and expensive Rolex watches.
Ford faces other charges as well---including bribery charges in the FBI's Tennessee Waltz sting operation that rocked the state capital in 2005 and led to the arrests of several sitting legislators.
Exposure of at least some of the sources of Ford's consulting income began years ago when Ford attempted to avoid paying child support to one of the women with whom he has a child.
At the child support hearing, Ford resisted providing income information. When he finally did, the press and others started to put two-and-two together about Ford's sources of consulting money from TennCare providers while he was serving on TennCare oversight committees in the State Senate.
Gradually things began to unravel. From child support to taking TennCare consultant payments while serving in the State Senate to the Tennessee Waltz, Ford has legal troubles everywhere he looks.
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