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Court bars former Detroit mayor from pocketing memoir profits

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DETROIT ( Reuters ) - Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick will be barred from profiting from the sale of his memoirs, a court ruled on Tuesday, until he pays off nearly $900,000 in restitution he still owes under his 2008 conviction on obstruction of justice and perjury charges. Kilpatrick, released from state prison earlier this month after serving nearly 14 months for violating the terms of his probation, had asked the Michigan Court of Appeals to throw out a lower court's order...Read Full Story

Kwame Kilpatrick: Destroyed by Money, Lies and Bad Choices

By Worshiper on  From bvonmoney.com
I feel sorry for former Detroit Mayor, Kwame Kilpatrick . I've followed this brother's life over the past few years, watching him fall from the highest of highs to the lowest of lows, with one scandal after another further tarnishing an image that has come to be even dingier than that of the darkest parts of Detroit. In some ways, Kilpatrick's fall has paralleled that of his own city, which has seen unemployment rates as high as 30% and is now perceived to be a haven of violence, despair and...Read Full Story

Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick May Be Headed Back to Prison

By Worshiper on  From bvblackspin.com
Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick could be headed back to prison next month, after a judge says he's been hiding assets that may have been used to pay the $1 million he owes his former city. According to the Associated Press : Kilpatrick pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice in 2008, after sexually explicit text messages became public, showing he had lied under oath about an affair with a staff member in a whistle-blowers' lawsuit. The 39-year-old resigned, served 99 days in jail...Read Full Story

Kwame Kilpatrick Sentenced to Up to 5 Years in Prison

By Worshiper on  From bvblackspin.com
A judge sent ex- Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick back to prison for one and a half to five years this morning for lying about his finances and fighting orders to pay the city of Detroit $1 million in restitution. "The defendant has continued to lie to this court about his ability to pay restitution," prosecutor Kym Worthy wrote in a 10-page sentencing memorandum, the AP reports. "This court cannot reward lies, deceit and fraud with more probation." The prosecution originally requested that...Read Full Story

Ex-Detroit mayor Kilpatrick released from state prison – what next?

By chuckgallagher on  From chuckgallagher.wordpress.com
Still facing a host of federal charges – Southlake, Texas resident and former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick walked out of prison a free man after serving just over 14 months of a 5-year sentence at a state facility in Jackson, Michigan. Kilpatrick had been serving time for violating probation related to a 2008 case against him. He is to check in with a Texas parole officer on his arrival as he is required to serve two years of parole. As you might remember , Kilpatrick pleaded guilty in...Read Full Story
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In case you're wondering how Christine Beatty is doing paying back her $100,000 restitution to the city of Detroit, she's just fine. Beatty was fined $100,000 for her dealings in the text-message scandal that undid her former boss/former lover ...  
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Make no mistake, Kwame Kilpatrick wants to be rich – filthy rich.  Meet the man who says he will make it happen. Florida attorney Willie Gary says in the next 10 days he will file a lawsuit in Mississippi that could set the record for the largest award ...  
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Ferguson lawyer Gerald Evelyn requested a hearing Tuesday before Wayne County Circuit Judge John Murphy, who awarded Gwendolyn Young $1.2 million Jan. 6 after Ferguson failed to respond to her harassment lawsuit. Evelyn said the award should be ...  
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Reps. Marty Knollenberg, R-Troy, and Pete Lund, R-Shelby Township, told the Free Press on Friday that they expect the state House to pass Knollenberg's proposal to ban elected officials from using campaign funds to defend themselves against ...  
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DETROIT (AP) — A judge in Mississippi has dismissed a federal lawsuit by former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick over the release of sexually explicit text messages.  
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A federal judge in Mississippi today dismissed ex-Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick’s lawsuit against Skytel, the City of Detroit’s former communications provider, for releasing the text messages that brought about his downfall. U.S. District ...  
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*Former Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick demanded $25 million to settle his civil lawsuit against SkyTel Inc., the city’s former text-message provider, claiming the company violated federal law when it turned over his texts – containing sexually explicit ...  
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Hundreds of pages of revealing testimony released from the Tamara Greene civil lawsuit, including foul exchanges between the lawyers and everything Kwame Kilpatrick said and refused to say.  
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Say what you will about former Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick — the man’s got pluck. The disgraced politician is suing SkyTel for $25 million, arguing that the city’s former text message provider violated federal law when it released the ...  
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Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick, mother to former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick. But Kilpatrick narrowly won her seat back and Waters’ fortunes faded when she pleaded guilty in 2010 to a misdemeanor count of filing a false tax return related to a ...  
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