Pride Before Destruction

John Ford isn't looking like the cock on the block now. For someone whose known for talking smack. He is pretty quiet these days. I guess anything he could say at this point, would be incriminating. His brother Edmund Ford was the one who got the worm off the hook this time. John's braggadocio and ego finally got the best of him. Instead of pleading guilty and throwing himself on the mercy of the court. John Ford expected attorney Michael Scholl to work magic in his first trial, like he eventually did for Edmund. It wasn't in the cards though. The FBI outsmarted the jury. And put them in a no win situation. It almost worked. The attorney exhausted all his tricks. Then the FBI sent John to jail. At this point everything is just icing on the cake. Now they're just adding time.

I found it funny that they had John's older brother Harold Sr. on tape telling him to resign. That didn't leave much to the imagination. Harold knows the importance of loyalty. Had Jake Butcher not been loyal to him when they were on trial. He would have probably done a stint in prison himself. Even though John had gotten away with his antics for the last 31 yrs. unscathed. He didn't know when to stop. Even for the sake of his associates he refused to quit. He held on until the end. Taking everyone in his past along with him. I guess that gives credence to the old adage "there's no honor among thieves." All he had to do was read the writing on the wall. And he could have forseen what was going to happen. This is an example of pride before destruction.