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*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 [...]
*For whatever reason former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, just can’t stay out of trouble … and jail. As a penalty for 14 parole violations, he will spend the weekend in prison, a state corrections spokesman said Friday. When given the opportunity to waive the formal parole violation process and instead serve three days at a [...]
*At this point, Kwame Kilpatrick may as well put “professional defendant” on his not so sterling resume because that seems to be his career status at this point. Yes, the ex-mayor of Detroit is on trail again. This time for corruption, reports the Detroit Free Press. The federal government introduced its massive and complex public [...]
*In Detroit, guess who’s headed back to trial? Yes, him: Kwame Kilpatrick, the city’s former and now disgraced mayor. But interestingly, Kilpatrick’s fate will be decided by by anonymous jurors whose identities will only be disclosed to lawyers involved in the high-profile City Hall corruption trial next month. U.S. District Judge Nancy Edmunds said Monday [...]
*Once he was elected, former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrik was a hero. But his reputation quickly turned sour after skeletons in his closet began to come out. Now he’s back in trouble. RELATED: Kwame Kilpatrick Sought $25M from SkyTel over Sexting Scandal Kilpatrick is facing federal civil charges for taking part in an “influence-peddling” scheme [...]
*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 messages with his former chief of staff, Christine Beatty – to attorney Michael Stefani through a police whistle-blower [...]
*Good grief. Another report has surfaced that shows how corrupt Kwame Kilpatrick was as mayor of Detroit. The Detroit News says Kilpatrick and members of his so-called criminal enterprise threatened witnesses with violence, pocketed a $10,000 kickback in a restaurant bathroom and withheld city funds from firms that wouldn’t pay to play, The explosive new [...]
*In an interview that aired Wednesday night on “Tavis Smiley,” Kwame Kilpatrick shared that he is excited for his future and comes out of incarceration as a better, not bitter man. The former Detroit mayor appeared on the nationally broadcast PBS program to discuss his new memoir, ” Surrendered: The Rise, Fall and Revelation of [...]
*A considerably lighter and now bearded former Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick is out of jail and he wanted the world to know it, so he took to social media networking to announce the good news. After spending 14 months in prison for a probation violation, the politician visited with family and friends, sent messages of [...]
*Detroit’s former mayor Kwame Kilpatrick claims in an upcoming book that an unspoken alliance of political adversaries, Detroit business leaders and an aggressive media capitalized on a sex and perjury scandal to send him from leading one of America’s largest cities to a prison cell, reports the Associated Press. The former politician bills “Surrendered! The [...]
*Headlining controversial former mayor of Detroit, Kwame Kilpatrick has been granted parole and will be released from his jail cell no later than July 24. The politician pled guilty in 2008 to obstruction of justice and was ordered to serve a minimum of 1.5 years of his 18-month to five year prison sentence. He was [...]
*Part of the reason Detroit went into a tailspin is due to the unfortunate state of “affairs” that Kwame Kilpatrick left behind along with his highly publicized scandals. But, long after the dust has settled on the case and he’s served one jail sentence and is in the middle of another, he has filed a lawsuit against the [...]
*Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick took the stand yesterday regarding the murder of stripper Tamara Greene. In court, he continued to support his years long stance that his administration never dealt with the murder. “Unequivocally, we never discussed Tamara Greene,” Kilpatrick said. Sitting on the stand for more than two hours, the disgraced former politician [...]
*If you thought it couldn’t get any worse for Kwame Kilpatrick, trust us it does. Lots worse. The Detroit News is reporting that federal investigators delivered a staggering blow to Kilpatrick’s once-powerful political family Wednesday, uncovering what they called a criminal enterprise that robbed taxpayers of millions of dollars and instilled a culture of corruption [...]
*Bad news for former mayor of Detroit Kwame Kilpatrick. Lawyers say a stripper was paid $1000 to perform at a dope infested party at the mayor’s mansion and his wife attacked the woman giving her husband a lap dance. According to the Associated Press, Tamika Ruffin’s statement comes in documents released Sunday by Norman Yatooma, [...]
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