The Memphis Commercial Appeal is doing some more investigative reporting on Memphis City Councilman Edmund Ford.
Ford has unpaid utility bills on his business of $16,000, but he has never had to worry about having the electricity at his business cut off.
Somehow Ford's "business" bill ended up in a special "residential" utility program that is intended to help low-income residents keep the utilities on at their houses.
And just how low-income is Ford? He makes over $30,000 as a Councilman. He also operates a business, a mortuary. He leases a $50,000 Cadillac Escalade. And event though he can't pay his bills, he gets loans from well-heeled friends who do a lot of business with the City.
Ford's utility bill at his business was "seriously delinquent" in Feb. 2006 according to a utility memo. The memo also states that Ford had made no payments on the utility bill at his business since Sept. 2004.
The investigation has now led to top management at Memphis Light Gas & Water with the head of the utility, Joe Lee, said to have been aware of the situation for at least a year.
Last year, Edmund Ford served as head of the Memphis City Council Committee that oversaw the MLG&W budget and spending.
Ford was indicted a few months ago on federal bribery charges.
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