Love Outside Of Prison

By Kleinheider Posted on July 29, 2008 at 9:31 am

From Adam Groves:

One of the first TN Waltzers to go down, Charles Love, is out of prison. Love, a former Hamilton Co. School Board official, was convicted in the Waltz investigation of being a bagman. Love served less than a year in prison following a plea deal.

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Shut The Buck Up

By Kleinheider Posted on July 21, 2008 at 7:31 am

Retiring Rep. Frank Buck insists he told Governor Bredesen about rumors of malfeasance by Senator John Ford in 2003:

Asked about Buck’s assertion before the trial, Bredesen said he had no knowledge of Ford’s financial ties to the contractors. He reiterated that during the trial, when he testified about a conversation with Ford over entrusting care of more TennCare recipients to one of the companies Ford was consulting for.

In his testimony, Bredesen said he would have reported Ford to the authorities had he known that the former senator was benefiting financially from the TennCare contractor.

Asked in an e-mail Friday about Buck’s claims, Bredesen spokeswoman Lydia Lenker responded that “the governor has said what he knows.”

“He has said all he is going to say on this matter,” Lenker wrote.

Buck remains adamant about telling the governor, saying that Bredesen got “jailhouse religion” about ethics only after the Tennessee Waltz scandal broke.

“He got religion after the scandal hit,” he said.

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Have A Good Weekend

By Kleinheider Posted on April 25, 2008 at 6:27 pm

Former state Senator John Ford failed in his last attempt to delay serving his prison sentence:

Ford, who is to report by 2 p.m. Monday to the Federal Prison Camp at Pollock, La., asked for the delay because of a motion hearing on May 6 in Nashville where he is facing trial this summer on charges of concealing $800,000 he allegedly received from two TennCare contractors.

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