The United States District Court Judge J. Daniel Breen has sentenced former State Senator John Ford to over 5 years in prisonBoston (EON) - The United States District Court Judge J. Daniel Breen has sentenced former State Senator John Ford to over 5 years in prison.

This was in relation to the “Tennessee Waltz.” This was a public corruption scandal. The actual sentence to the 65-year-old former senator is 66 months in jail. He was convicted back in April for accepting $55,000 in bribes from a fake company created by the FBI.

Ford is also facing many more criminal charges so he may not be done yet getting more jail time.

Ford’s attorney Micheal Scholl stated that “What I have seen is John Ford singled out in all of this. John Ford coule have gone out and robbed and shot somebody and he would be facing less time than he is now. What I want to emphasize here is all the good that John Ford has done. We can’t just wipe out 30 years in the legislature.”

Former State Senator Roscoe Dixon and Rep. Chris Newton have been sentenced already as well. Former Sen. Ward Cructchfield and Kathryn Bowers await their sentences.