The Commercial Appeal used meeting records and court documents to determine the local organizations which were unnamed in the federal indictment.

Edmund Ford Jr. has been federally charged with bribery and tax evasion, court records show. Here's what we know.

Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris, in first statement since Commissioner Edmund Ford Jr. was indicted, asked for a pause in Ford's role in giving grants.

Ford Jr. has been charged with bribery and tax evasion by federal authorities. The charges are outlined in the indictement unsealed Friday morning.

Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris on Monday asked that the Shelby County Commission to pause Edmund Ford Jr.'s participation in the grant-making process amid a federal investigation into the commissioner's alleged bribery scheme.

The indictment, unsealed Friday, Feb. 28, alleges three unnamed nonprofits received taxpayer-funded grants from the Memphis City Council and Shelby County Board of Commissioners while Ford was on the bodies and then paid Ford by either buying computers from one of his companies or by disguising payments in some other way.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Shelby County Commissioner Edmund Ford Jr. is expected to turn himself in to federal authorities tomorrow, sources tell ABC24. The law enforcement source said that Ford Jr. was indicted in federal court.

The federal indictment against Shelby County Commissioner Edmund Ford, Jr. outlines a complicated scheme involving government grants, nonprofits, bank accounts and businesses.

Shelby County Commissioner Edmund Ford Jr. turned himself in on federal charges Friday morning. The indictment charges Ford with one count of bribery involving federal programs and six counts of attempting to evade taxes.

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