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Federal prosecutors say nearly 370,000 text messages comprise a large chunk of their public corruption case against former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick ...  

DETROIT (AP) — Federal prosecutors say nearly 370,000 text messages comprise a large chunk of their public corruption case against former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick.  

DETROIT, May 30 (UPI) -- Motions filed this week by prosecutors and lawyers for former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick suggest his upcoming trial will be long and complex. The U.S. attorney's office asked U.S. District Judge Nancy Edmunds to ...  

Text messages, which cost former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick his political career, could cost him his freedom. Federal prosecutors disclosed Tuesday that a significant portion of their public corruption case against Kilpatrick and three other ...  

(press release) An indicted contractor in the case against former Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick is trying to get bribery counts against him dropped and to get text messages he sent to Kilpatrick eliminated from the more than 369,000 in evidence.  

First, he tried to get Kwame Kilpatrick's name banned from his pending bid-rigging trial. Now, Bobby Ferguson wants his longtime friend's text messages to ... Ferguson's lawyer asked that 25 messages be kept out, saying they're prejudicial.  

Detroit— Federal prosecutors are armed with more than 500 potential witnesses who could testify against ex-Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick during this fall's corruption trial. The number was disclosed in a court filing Tuesday, offering the most ...  

UPI.comJudge won't delay Kwame Kilpatrick's trialUPI.comFormer Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was first indicted on federal tax and fraud charges in June, 2010. UPI DETROIT, May 22 (UPI) -- A federal judge says she will not postpone former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's corruption trial.Judge denies Kilpatrick request to delay trialThe Detroit NewsJudge Won't Delay Kilpatrick Corruption TrialCBS Localall 6 news articles »  

Saying the public needs closure, a federal judge is refusing to delay the September corruption trial of former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and his father.  

He spoke about the failed pension fund deal, connections with an international drug dealer, an ongoing federal criminal probe and Bernard Kilpatrick, father of former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick. Pension fund lawyers allege Kastanes and his ...  

Ex-Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick helped pave the way for his longtime friend Bobby Ferguson and his construction associates to land a contract for a low-income housing project in Detroit, according to testimony in the high-profile bid-rigging ...  

Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and the city’s ex-treasurer were sued by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, which accused them of awarding pension-fund business in exchange for $125,000 worth of gifts from an investment adviser.  

Ex-Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and his longtime friend Jeffrey Beasley are facing fresh allegations of wrongdoing in federal court, according to U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The SEC today charged Kilpatrick and Beasley, the former city ...  

Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, former city Treasurer Jeffrey Beasley and MayfieldGentry Realty Advisors LLC, a former adviser to the city's police and fire pension fund, have been charged with federal crimes by...  

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has filed a civil suit against former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick for accepting lavish gifts from a pension fund broker. The complaint filed May 9 by the federal regulatory agency in the U.S ...