*Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick is facing up to 20 years in prison after he was convicted Monday of most of the federal charges against him in his public corruption case, including racketeering, extortion and filing false tax returns.
Kilpatrick is accused of running a criminal enterprise through the mayor’s office to enrich himself through bid-rigging and extortion, and using nonprofit funds for personal gain.
After 14 full days of deliberation, the jury reached a unanimous decision on 40 of 45 counts against Kilpatrick and Bobby Ferguson. No verdict was reached on the charges of racketeering against Bernard Kilpatrick.
Breaking with typical protocol, the verdict was not read by the jury foreperson. Instead, Judge Nancy Edmunds read the verdicts herself.
The panel of eight women and four men deliberated for close to 100 hours before finally reaching their decisions. The verdict was reached on Friday. The jury decided to go home and sleep on it over the weekend to see if anyone would change his or her mind by Monday morning.
The prosecution wants Kwame Kilpatrick and Ferguson in custody immediately. The judge will decide that during a 1:30 p.m. meeting. The prosecution believes they are flight risks.
Still SMHLMAO at those text messages!
This is really sad!
This man had the opportunity to be GREAT!!!
Stupid, greedy, corrupt!!!
smh
So, true Miss ladyelle, so true
While I understand this man ruined his entire life and whatever future he may have had, I think Kym Worthy just went way over the top to ruin him. How much more can they take from him??? He has lost EVERYTHING and is completely ruined and at one point, I had a lot of admiration and respect for Kym Worthy but now, she’s just a real arrogant cut throat and KARMA is a real bitch….because she seems to forget, she lost her house to foreclosure…
Stephanie, grow up! Kim Worthy didn’t do anything but her job. Kwame K ruined his owned life, tainted his wife, his children, his mistresses, his family, friends and business associates. Kwame wanted to be “gangsta” and that mentality led to his demise, which didn’t come fast enough for me, my dear. Do some real research and you will learn that Kwame’s objective, as Mayor of Detroit, was to pillage Detroit of cash and sell its resources for personal profit. Even his wife Carlita was in on the hustle, she just didn’t participate, instead she reaped all the benefits at the tax payers expense.
Black men need a strong relationship with God and learn how to trust Him. Stop trying to get instant everything.
When this man gets to jail he’s going to read his Bible every day and have a closer walk with
God for the next 20 years. Too bad he had to wait until he is surrounded by 4 concrete walls to realize that Jesus is real and he is worthy of the honor, the glory, and the praise!
Black Men Go To Church in Jesus Name!
well just going to church is not just going to help black men. that is not the answer, you see I was watching this young elected official Ruin his life little by little, it was devastating to watch in dis-belief how Kawme destroyed his own life. he was using us. People in Detroit who trusted him who was in his corner. with his mom as a public official for many years she was trying to teach him this is a business. This is politics. you have to have a certain kind of attitude to make this happen. not act a fool. she told him many many times. she was trying to show him how you can be powerful and use your mind. in a way where he could have had a very powerful career by him being young and black with his law degree. he could have made it happen.
but he choose to destroy his-self his family his wife his children. he let his arrogance get in the way he thought he was above the law. he thought he was above GOD!, see when you say black men go to church what are you saying? Church is not that great because you can see how church is working as of today. terrible ministers who are as corrupted as our Congress and senate is. Church’s who do not care about any of these poverty stricken communities.
Pastors and so called Bishops just collecting the money. that is the bottom line when you make a decision to cheat and lie, and use people and take money out of the hands of neighborhoods, Well you have forgotten about GOD at this point. Kawame knew what he was doing. he took his family members and gave them jobs, but all they had to do was show up, not really do any work. he cheated for many years with Christine. His wife knew it! I’m very disapointed in how he took care of his city and how he took his power and used it for corruption and taking monies and ruining careers on the backs of his own family. how does a man come back from that Please tell me. I have lived in Detroit all my life and I was glad to see a young black get his chance to serve. but look at what happened he took it for granted. he had no regard for the city of his position or his mom. He lost all his Respect for himself and his family and his city.that he was suppose to be Running.We as blacks where really hoping for him to make it happen. when you think your not suppose to take responsibility for your actions.
It can be devastating, and he thought he was going to get off or get out of this. and he had everything in his hands, to use for good. but you can see how young black thinks. he had all those young people looking up to him.Knowing what he was doing was wrong so now he has to pay the price but at what cost. ( bottom line was it worth it),, Was it worth it) 15-20yrs in prison I couldn’t imagine what his family is feeling or going through after all the work they put in to make sure he had a great career. ( I just say stay prayed up), and remember when you are preaching the Gospel you cannot be cheating on your wife. or sitting in a bath tub with your granddaughter. or sleeping with men. so going to church is not the answer. bottom line stay out of trouble and do your job. be a man take responsibliity for your actions.