Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick

DETROIT – The city’s former mayor Kwame Kilpatrick is still calling the text message scandal that led to his ouster after an affair with an aide a personal vendetta, also blaming racism and hatred for his scandals in an interview with a journalist for the Nation of Islam’s newspaper. Sitting down with Ashahed Muhammad of The Final Call in an interview posted on YouTube on Saturday, Kilpatrick also says he still loves former chief of staff and lover Christine Beatty, a friend since the ninth grade, who went to jail after text messages revealed her affair with the then-mayor. In the YouTube video with ... Read Full Story

Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick filed a lawsuit Wednesday against a lawyer who leaked racy text messages to the Detroit Free Press and kicked off a scandal that brought down Kilpatrick's administration and sent him to jail. The lawsuit, filed in Wayne County Circuit Court, cites recent testimony by attorney Mike Stefani before a disciplinary board that he leaked the messages to the newspaper. The suit says Stefani violated a confidentiality agreement requiring him to turn over all copies of the explosive messages in exchange for settling police whistle-blower lawsuits involving three ex-Detroit officers he represented. James Thomas, Kilpatrick's attorney, told the Detroit Free ... Read Full Story

Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick filed a lawsuit Wednesday against a lawyer who leaked racy text messages to the Detroit Free Press and kicked off a scandal that brought down Kilpatrick's administration and sent him to jail. The lawsuit, filed in Wayne County Circuit Court, cites recent testimony by attorney Mike Stefani before a disciplinary board that he leaked the messages to the newspaper. The suit says Stefani violated a confidentiality agreement requiring him to turn over all copies of the explosive messages in exchange for settling police whistle-blower lawsuits involving three ex-Detroit officers he represented. James Thomas, Kilpatrick's attorney, told the Detroit Free ... Read Full Story

Former Detroit mayor released from jail Embattled former Detroit, Michigan, Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was released from jail early Tuesday. Kilpatrick, his beard overgrown and bushy, was escorted out of Michigan’s Wayne County jail as he dodged a crowd of reporters before getting into a car and was driven away, according to television footage from CNN affiliate WXYZ. Kilpatrick spent 100 days in jail as part of a plea agreement connected to a sex scandal that rocked Detroit and caused the city council and governor of Michigan to push to impeach him. See the rest here Former Detroit mayor released from jail - CNN.com Detroit ... Read Full Story

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last year, you have heard about Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick’s affair and public ousting from office. Yesterday, his lover, other woman, whatever you want to call her, was released from jail after serving 70 days of her 90 day sentence. With her lawyer and pastor at her side, Christine Beatty was released with 5 years probation and a $100,000 debt to Detroit for obstruction of justice. To recap: Christine and Kwame were having an affair. They were taking secret trips to West Virginia. (W.Virgina why?..that’s whack) A police officer started an investigation. Christine, the Mayor’s ... Read Full Story