Kwame Kilpatrick Strikes Again!!!
 

If you followed, at all, the Kwame Kilpatrick scandal in Detroit a few years ago, then you will love this little gem from yesterday's Free Press.


http://www.freep.com/article/20110509/NEWS01/110509038/Wife-Kwame-Kilpatrick-fears-future-after-text-message-scandal?odyssey=mod|mostcom

I don't buy it. Does this look like a man that fears scandal? This guy eats scandal for breakfast.

:banghead:

Everyone's a victim.

If Kwame's plight moves you, he is still taking donations for his defense fund

FriendsOfKwame.com || Official Site of Kwame Kilpatrick and Family

Can we send cookies instead?

Funny, but I know of a certain city that seems to be suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder thanks to the actions of a man who may have been the most corrupt mayor in history (and who didn't even do a decent job of covering his tracks.)

hey it's strange to me too but we're talking about texts man, we're not even talking about being a crook, when it actually matters, we're talking about texts.

Can we send Anytime Minutes?

Haha! That might turn him into a vegetable.

Jury convicts Kwame Kilpatrick of corruption
By Ed White
Associated Press


Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was convicted Monday of corruption charges, ensuring a return to prison for a man once among the nation's youngest big-city leaders.

Jurors convicted Kilpatrick of a raft of crimes, including a racketeering conspiracy charge. He was portrayed during a five-month trial as an unscrupulous politician who took bribes, rigged contracts and lived far beyond his means while in office until fall 2008.

Prosecutors said Kilpatrick ran a "private profit machine" out of Detroit's City Hall. The government presented evidence to show he got a share of the spoils after ensuring that an excavating company owned by his friend Bobby Ferguson was awarded millions in work from the Detroit water department.

Business owners said they were forced to hire Ferguson as a subcontractor or risk losing city contracts.

Separately, fundraiser Emma Bell said she gave Kilpatrick more than $200,000 as his personal cut of political donations, pulling cash from her bra during private meetings.

A high-ranking aide, Derrick Miller, told jurors that he often was the middle man, passing bribes from others.

Internal Revenue Service agents said Kilpatrick spent $840,000 beyond his mayoral salary.

Kilpatrick, who now lives near Dallas, declined to testify. He has long denied any wrongdoing, and defense attorney James Thomas told jurors that Kilpatrick often was showered with cash gifts from city workers and political supporters during holidays and birthdays.

The government said Kilpatrick abused the Civic Fund, a nonprofit fund he created to help distressed Detroit residents. There was evidence that it was used for yoga lessons, camps for his kids, golf clubs and travel.

Kilpatrick, 42, was elected in 2001 at age 31. He resigned in 2008 and pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice in a different scandal involving sexually explicit text messages and an extramarital affair with his chief of staff.

The Democrat spent 14 months in prison for violating probation in that case after a judge said he failed to report assets that could be put toward his $1 million restitution to Detroit.

Voters booted his mother, Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick, from Congress in 2010, partly because of a negative perception of her because of her son's troubles.

I still say he has a shot in DC.

He still has a shot in Detroit

I find him to be a complete waste. To have the political skills he has, combined with the opportunities he had... to piss it all away as he did is just stupid.

He was elected mayor of a major city at 31 years of age. It was a city on the upswing when he took office. If he had done even a few positive things and kept his nose clean prior to the housing crash he could have been in line for a senate seat.

I love Kwame's latest grounds for appeal: He tried to beat up his lawyer.

Kwame Kilpatrick: I tried to beat up my lawyer before trial; he ran around a table

There's nothing that can be done anywhere else that can't be done worse by Detroit. It was once a fine city. That was a long time ago.