More on Kwame Kilpatrick Kwame Kilpatrick Accepts Plea Deal in Text Message Scandal Kwame Kilpatrick Jailed over Violation of Bond Kwame Kilpatrick Reponds to Perjury Charges Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was fired from Compuware Corporation today after he was sentenced to prison for violating his probation. He was sentenced to 18 months to 5 years in prison for allegedly lying while on probation about hiding money that was supposed to go toward paying his $1 million restitution to...Read Full Story
Remember former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick — he’s the one who pleaded guilty in 2008 to obstruction of justice charges, something to do with lying about the fact he was having an affair with a staffer, something about sexting — and then got five years in the slammer for violating terms of his probation? He has been gracing North Texas with his presence. Now comes word out of MoTown that he has moved, again, this time into a $372,000 home that is “larger and more expensive than his last...Read Full Story
Ask anyone who grew up in suburban Detroit in the past forty years and they will explain the odd relationship that has long existed between the suburbanites and the City of Detroit. As I was coming of age in the Detroit suburbs, I was well aware of Mayor Coleman Young's sentiment toward the mostly white suburbanites. According to his Wikipedia entry, Mayor Young "was criticized for his confrontational style toward suburban interests and the apparent diversion of city resources to downtown...Read Full Story
Ask anyone who grew up in suburban Detroit in the past forty years and they will explain the odd relationship that has long existed between the suburbanites and the City of Detroit. As I was coming of age in the Detroit suburbs, I was well aware of Mayor Coleman Young's sentiment toward the mostly white suburbanites. According to his Wikipedia entry, Mayor Young "was criticized for his confrontational style toward suburban interests and the apparent diversion of city resources to downtown...Read Full Story
Kwame Kilpatrick was granted parole and now the ex-mayor of Detroit may be free to walk its streets as soon as July 24. The disgraced Kilpatrick has been in state prison since early 2010 for lying during "a 2007 police whistle-blower lawsuit trial." Kwame had lied about an affair with one of his top aides but his lies were uncovered via a series of sexts . As happy as Kilpatrick must be at the potential of being a free man, there is the looming fact that he may be sent back to prison because...Read Full Story
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 ...
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 ...
Controversial Detroit contractor and Kwame Kilpatrick pal Bobby Ferguson wants a judge to void a ruling that Ferguson must pay $1.2 million to a former employee who accused him of sexual harassment. Ferguson lawyer Gerald Evelyn requested a ...
A new report has emerged about fibbing by former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick. In 2005, a controversial campaign ad targeting black voters turned up in the Michigan Chronicle, portraying the then-Detroit mayor as the victim of a "lynching" by ...
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.
Kwame Kilpatrick (born June 8, 1970) is the former mayor of Detroit. He eventually resigned after 10 felony charges were brought against him for things like perjury and obstruction of justice. He was sentenced to 18 months to 5 years in prison after violating his probation in May 2010. See more about Kwame Kilpatrick here.
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Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick can be questioned under oath in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit brought by the Free Press, Wayne County Circuit Judge Robert Colombo Jr. ruled Friday. The judge rejected the mayor's claim that his pending criminal ...