420 Post | If At First You Don't Suck Seed

By Lawrence Buser, Memphis Commercial Appeal
Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Political operative Joe Cooper said Monday he believes there was tampering with the jury that acquitted former Memphis City Council member Edmund Ford of bribery charges earlier this year.

He said 10 anonymous businessmen have offered to pay $10,000 for information that leads to an indictment and conviction of anyone who tampered with the federal court jury.

Ford was acquitted of bribery and extortion charges in May after telling jurors the $8,900 he accepted from Cooper was a loan rather than a bribe for his vote on a zoning issue before the council.

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Now aint that the pot calling the kettle a motherfvcker! Cooper was..... Hell, he IS a government informant and also the government's key witness in Ford's case. As the video shows, he even went as far as to wear a hidden camera to record former City Council member Edmund Ford Sr. accepting a couple thousand of dollars in cash from him in 2006 so I am pretty sure that he was shocked as hell when a federal court jury acquitted Ford on all six counts of bribery and extortion. Another former councilman, Rickey Peete, had already pled guilty in the same sting operation after viewing secret tapes

Cooper made of him accepting $14,500 for votes. Peete is probably kicking himself in the ass now that he's serving a 51-month prison sentence in that case and Ford got off.

Despite Ford's acquittal, Cooper claims he still held up his part of the agreement with the feds and he hoped they would cut his sentence in his federal case for laundering money for drug traffickers while he was a car salesman. Cooper even has acknowledged that he agreed to cooperate with the FBI only after being charged with money laundering! He thought he was getting probation but Cooper is scheduled to begin serving a six-month prison sentence later this year. I guess he cut another deal with the feds involving the alleged jury tampering.

Cooper tried to set him up but failed miserably. Now he's offering money for information on jury tampering after the guy got off, which has to be the weakest shit ever. If @ first you don't suck seed, just keep on sucking!