Kwame Malik Kilpatrick (born June 8, 1970) is a former American politician, having served as a Michigan state representative and mayor of Detroit from 2002 to 2008. He resigned as mayor in September 2008 after being found guilty of perjury and obstruction of justice. Kilpatrick was sentenced to four months in prison and released on probation after serving 99 days.
On May 25, 2010, she was sentenced to 18 months to five years in state prison for breaching her probation, and serving at the Oaks Correctional Facility in northwestern Michigan. On March 11, 2013, Kilpatrick was sentenced to 24 counts of federal crime, including mail fraud, wire fraud, and extortion. On October 10, 2013, Kilpatrick was sentenced to 28 years in federal prison.
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Kwame Malik Kilpatrick was born June 8, 1970, to Bernard Kilpatrick and Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick. His parents divorced in 1981. Kilpatrick studied at Cass Technical High School in Detroit and graduated from Florida A & amp; M University with a Bachelor of Science degree in political science in 1992. (He is a member of the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity and has been the captain of the Football Rattler Team). In 1999 he received a Juris Doctor degree from the Detroit College of Law (now Law University of Michigan State University). She has Ayanna's sister and her half-brother, Diarra.
His mother, Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick, was a career politician who represented Detroit at Michigan State House from 1979 to 1996 and served in the United States House of Representatives for Michigan's 13th congress district from 1996 to 2010. He was not re-elected to office because he lost the election primarily on August 3, 2010 for Michigan State Senator Hansen Clarke. NPR and CBS News both noted that throughout his reelection campaign, he was confronted by questions about his son, Kwame Kilpatrick.
Kilpatrick's father, Bernard Kilpatrick, is a semi-professional basketball player and politician. He was elected to the Wayne County Commission, serving as head of the Wayne County Department of Health and Human Services from 1989-2002, and as Chief of Staff for former Wayne County Executive Edward H. McNamara. Then he operates a consulting firm called Maestro Associates of Detroit.
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Political career
Michigan country representative
Kwame Kilpatrick was elected in 1996 to the Michigan House of Representatives after his mother vacated the seat to campaign for a position in the United States Congress.
His campaign staff consisted of high school seniors Derrick Miller and Christine Beatty, who became his legislative assistants; then, Kilpatrick had an affair with Beatty. According to Kilpatrick, the campaign runs on a $ 10,000 budget and does not receive support from unions, congressional districts, or Democratic organizations.
Kilpatrick was elected chairman of the minority group for the Democratic Michigan party, serving in that position from 1998 to 2000. He was later elected a minority home leader in 2001, the first African American to hold that position. Kilpatrick nominated the Detroit mayor, hired Berg/Muirhead Associates for his campaign. They are retained as public relations firms in their election.
The Mayor of Detroit
First term
In 2001, Kilpatrick became Detroit's youngest mayor when elected at age 31. In his 2002 speech, Kilpatrick said:
I stand before you as a son from the city of Detroit and everything he represents. I was born here in the city of Detroit, I grew up here in the city of Detroit, I went to Detroit Public Schools. I understand this city.... This position is private to me. It's more than just politics.
In 2005, he was criticized for using city funds to rent a car for use by his family and use a city-issued credit card to charge thousands of dollar spa treatments, sumptuous meals, and expensive wines. Kilpatrick paid back $ 9,000 of the $ 210,000 credit card fee.
During his first term, Kilpatrick closed the one-century-old Belle Isle Zoo and the Belle Isle Aquarium due to municipal budget issues. The City Council rejected its funding veto for the zoo and gave it a budget of $ 700,000.
In 2005, the magazine TIME was named Kilpatrick as one of the worst mayors in America.
Custom administration
Since the 1970s, a federal judge has made the Detroit mayor a special administrator of the Detroit Water Department because of severe pollution problems. When a serious question about the water department contract was revealed in late 2005, Judge Feikens terminated Kilpatrick's special government in his capacity as Mayor. In January 2006, Detroit News reported that "Kilpatrick uses administrator authority in particular to bypass water councils and the City Council on three controversial contracts." This includes a $ 131 million radio system for city police and fire departments, as well as non-tender PR contracts to a close personal assistant. But Judge Feikens praised the mayor's job as department manager, referring questions to the contract to the special master responsible for the investigation.
2005 re-election campaign
In May 2005, Detroit Free Press reported that during the first 33 months of tenure Kilpatrick has charged more than $ 210,000 on credit cards issued by the city for travel, meals and entertainment.
In the May 2005 campaign campaign, Kilpatrick's father, Bernard, vigorously stated that the alleged Mayor's party at the Manoogian Mansion was a lie. He implies such statements as "lies" that the Jews caused the German problem in the 1930s, leading to the Holocaust in Europe. Bernard later apologized.
In October 2005, a third party group backing Kilpatrick, named The Citizens for Honest Government, resulted in controversy by their ads that compared media criticisms against him to avoid the masses.
Kilpatrick and his enemy Freman Hendrix, both Democrats, each initially claimed victory. But when the votes are counted, it becomes clear that Kilpatrick has returned from his unpopular expanse to win a second term in office. Three months before that, most commentators expressed his political career after he was the first incumbent mayor of Detroit to be second in the primary. Pre-election polls predict a big win for Hendrix; However, Kilpatrick won by 53% of the vote.
Second term
In July 2006, Kilpatrick was hospitalized and diagnosed with diverticulitis while in Houston, Texas. His personal physician indicated that Kilpatrick's condition might be caused by a high protein weight loss diet. That month the Detroit city council has voted unanimously to approve Kilpatrick's tax plans, with which he intends to offer homeowners some help from high city tax rates. Cutting ranges from 18% to 35%, depending on the value of the property.
Audit report
The city was 14 months late in applying for a 2005-2006 audit. In March 2008, officials estimated the audit would cost an additional $ 2.4 million due to new audit requirements not addressed by the city. The fiscal year 2006-2007 audit due on December 31, 2007 is expected to be 11 months late.
The Treasury Department decided to withhold $ 35 million from its monthly revenue share into the city and asked Detroit to accept approval before selling bonds to raise money. Kilpatrick told the city council that he would be blamed for partly on the final audit because he laid off too many accountants, but he also blamed the hired company to replace them.
City Address 2008 City
On March 11, 2008, Mayor Kilpatrick delivered the 7th City Address to the city of Detroit. Speech marks a turning point in Kilpatrick's career. The majority of 70 minute speeches focus on positive changes taking place throughout Detroit and future plans. Kilpatrick specifically noted the increase in police surveillance, new policing technology, and initiatives to rebuild the damaged neighborhoods of the city. He received repeated applause from the audience only.
Near the end of the speech, Kilpatrick deviates from a transcript given to the media and posted on his official website to overcome the scandal and controversy surrounding his tenure. Kilpatrick stated that the media only focuses on controversy as a spectacle to increase their audience.
In closing, he spoke to a city councilman who chose not to sit behind him on stage in protest, notably Kenneth Cockrel Jr., and, despite the fact that the Detroit city government was almost entirely African-American, regarded the criticism based on race:
... And finally, and this is probably the most talked-about part of this speech after putting it all down, but I feel that I can not leave this auditorium with my wife and sons sitting there without talking about it.
In the last 30 days, I have been called nigger more than ever anytime of my life. In the last three days, I have received more death threats than in my entire administration.
I've heard these words before, but I've never heard anyone say them about my wife and kids.
I must say this because this is very personal to me. I do not believe that Nielsen's rating is worth it for the lives of my children or your children.
This unethical and illegal lynch mob mentality should stop.
And this is a serious time. We've never been here before. And I do not care if they turn off the TV.
We've never been in a situation like this before where you can say anything, do anything, have no facts, no research, nothing and you can launch a hate-driven fanatical attack on the family.
I humbly ask the board members, I humbly ask the business community, I humbly ask the religious community, I humbly ask the brothers and sisters of the city of Detroit - I humbly ask that we say 'no more ' together.
I humbly asked that we say no more together. I love this city with every part of my existence. I will continue to focus on building the next Detroit.
God bless you, Detroit. I love you.
His comments produced many negative comments. The Michigan governor and fellow Democrat Jennifer Granholm issued a statement in which he condemned the use of the word N in any context.
Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox stated on WJR radio that he thought that using the N-word was "deplorable". Cox also said, "I think his statement is the equivalent of David Duke and George Wallace, all to save his political career.I am not a Detroiter, but last night crossed the line... those statements are not only painful.Frank, but] during the mayor there, he will be an obstacle in the whole region. "Cox said whether Kilpatrick was sentenced or not, he had to resign as mayor.
Kilpatrick's former political advisor, Sam Riddle, gave the address label a speech. "It's a desperate act to use the N-word," Riddle said. "She's trying to get back her support base by playing race cards, she's going there too often."
In response to Kilpatrick who characterized the media coverage of his scandal as "a hate driven fanatic attack on the family", Carmen Harlan, an African-American newsreader at the Detroit NBC affiliate, WDIV, stated the following:
Mr. Mayor, I would like to speak with you directly. You are absolutely right tonight when you say that the threat of murder and racial insult is wrong. I will even go further, they are unforgivable and inappropriate, but say that we, the media, to blame for this chaos are also unfair. Using emotionally-driven words, such as the N-word, phrases like "hatred-driven" and "fanatic assault", even "lynch mob mentality", move my core and even my emotions. You see, I also like the city, just like you. Like you, we [media] have work to do. I have asked you to sit with me; explaining what we did not understand and how we might be wrong. I am still waiting for that phone call, and I quote you, 'No more, please humbly! Kwame Kilpatrick's roller coaster must stop!
In March 2008, the Black National Mayor Conference moved its meeting from Detroit to New Orleans due to Kilpatrick's legal issues.
Affiliate
Kilpatrick is a member of the Democratic Party.
He is a member of the Mayors Against Illegal Guns Coalition, a bi-partisan anti-gang group with the stated goal of "making people safer by getting illegal weapons off the streets." The coalition is co-chaired by Boston Mayor Thomas Menino and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
Since Kilpatrick's conviction in 2013 on federal allegations, his membership status in the organization is unclear. Until September 2010, there has been no announcement of his resignation from the Mayor Against Illegal Weapons; however, as of December 2012, Kilpatrick is no longer registered as a member.
Electoral history
- 2005 Race for Major (Detroit)
- Kwame Kilpatrick (D) (incumbent), 53%
- Freman Hendrix (D), 47%
- 2005 Race for Mayor (Detroit) (Main Election)
- Freman Hendrix (D), 45%
- Kwame Kilpatrick (D) (incumbent), 34%
- Sharon McPhail (D), 12%
- Hansen Clarke (D), 8%
- 2001 Race for Major (Detroit)
- Kwame Kilpatrick (D), 54%
- Gil Hill (D), 46%
Controversy, crime trial, and detention
Alleged incident of mayor's mistake
Manoogian Mansion Party
In the fall of 2002, it was alleged that Kilpatrick had a wild party involving strippers at Manoogian Mansion, Detroit's mayor's residence. Former member of the Executive Protection Unit (EPU), security detail of the mayor's police, alleges that Carlita Kilpatrick, Kwame's wife, suddenly came and physically attacked the strippers. Officer Harold C. Nelthrope contacted the Detroit Police Department unit in April 2003 to have them investigate the violations by the EPU. Kilpatrick denies making a mistake. Investigations by Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox and Michigan State Police found no evidence that the party took place, although the State Police investigation was cut short.
Nelthrope and Internal Investigators Gary A. Brown alleges that they were fired by the Kilpatrick government in retaliation for investigating the mayor and other superiors. Nelthrope and Brown filed a whistleblower lawsuit and were awarded a $ 8.4 million settlement. In addition, two other police officers, Walt Harris and Alvin Bowman, claimed that they retaliated for their involvement in the investigation of the mayor's misbehavior. Harris is a former EPU member identified by the government as cooperating with state investigations. He then suffered a dirty campaign in the media by the Kilpatrick government.
Murder Tamara Greene
Tamara Greene, a 27-year-old exotic dancer who went by the name of "Strawberry", was allegedly performed at the Manoogian Mansion party and allegedly attacked by Carlita Kilpatrick. Greene was killed on April 30, 2003, at about 3:40 am, near the intersection of Roselawn and West Outer Drive while sitting in his car with his 32-year-old girlfriend. He was shot several times with a.40-caliber pistol. At the time, this was the same model and caliber weapon as a weapon that was officially issued by the Detroit Police Department. Researchers believe this to be a "deliberate attack" by members of the Detroit Police Department. Bowman suspects his investigation is the reason he was removed from the case and removed from the Detroit Police Department's Homicide Division.
The Greene family filed a federal suit against Detroit for $ 150 million, claiming that he was murdered to prevent his testimony of the Manoogian Mansion party. A judge ruled that Norman Yatooma, a lawyer representing the 14-year-old son of Greene, could have access to a text message between Kilpatrick, police chief Ella Bully-Cummings and dozens of city officials to ascertain whether city officials blocked an investigation into Greene's murder. Yatooma also wants text messages and GPS positions from each city employee to be exchanged between 01.30 and 17.30 on the night of the murder. The city communications provider Skytel indicates that they are ready to release text messages if the court decides.
On March 1, 2008, a ten-page statement by former Detroit Police Department lieutenant Alvin Bowman was filed by Yatooma in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, stating that, "I suspect that the shooter is a law enforcement officer, and more specifically, a Detroit Police Department Officer. "Bowman also claimed that Detroit Police Department personnel, including Cummings, deliberately sabotaged his investigation. Bowman declared that he was eventually transferred from the Homicide Division because he had asked many questions about the murder of Greene and the Manoogian Mansion party. Bowman also claimed that Greene was employed by an unnamed Kilpatrick colleague, and that Greene's phone records linked him to a high-level city clerk shortly before his death. Mayer Morganroth, the lawyer representing the town, said, "The Bowman flagship is a bit less than stupid and more than unreasonable."
In another affidavit, Joyce Carolyn Rogers, a former employee of the Detroit Police Department, stated that she read the police report that came to her desk in the fall of 2002 regarding Carlita Kilpatrick's attack on Greene during the alleged Manoogian Mansion party. Rogers states that Carlita has watched Greene touch the mayor "in a way that interferes with the mayor's wife." Rogers alleges that Carlita bumps into Greene with wooden objects, and that two men stepped in to hold her. Yatooma says that Rogers' affidavit shows that Manoogian Mansion party is not "urban legend".
Three Detroit - Lt. Michael Kearns, Lieutenant Walter Godzwon, and Cenobio Chapa - signed a written statement on Greene. Kearns claims he talked to Greene around during the Manoogian Mansion party. Godzwon claimed he saw Mayor Kilpatrick and his bodyguard at the Detroit Receiving Hospital, where an injured woman was taken. Chapa claims that he saw an injured woman being taken to hospital by three Detroit Police Department officers in the fall of 2002, and hearing her say he had been attacked by Carlita Kilpatrick. Chapa also said that he met with medical technician Doug Bayer, and told him what he saw; Bayer had earlier told the State Police about such a meeting.
Violation of the persecution
In 2003, a civil suit was filed against Kilpatrick by former bodyguard Harold Nelthrope and former Deputy Chief of Police Gary Brown. Police officers claimed that they were fired due to an internal investigation into the mayor's personal actions and that the shootings violated the whistleblower law.
The trial began in August 2007 with Kilpatrick and his chief of staff, Christine Beatty, both denied they were involved in extramarital affairs. In his testimony, Kilpatrick expressed his anger about the claim of an affair between him and Beatty and under oath said:
I think it's very discouraging - you have to know him - but also demoralize me, "he said. My mother is a congressman. There's always a strong woman around me. My aunt is a state legislator. I think it does not make sense to state that every woman who works with a man is a prostitute. I think it's rude not just for Christine Beatty but for women who do the professional work they do every day. And it also does not respect their families too.
The trial ended on September 11, 2007, after three hours of jury consideration, in a ruling that gave the plaintiff $ 6.5 million in damages. In an angry speech in front of City Hall made a few minutes after the verdict was read, Kilpatrick blamed the "wrong verdict" on the white jurors in the suburbs. Kilpatrick also stated "There is a race in this case, and we are running from there in this region and I think it is impossible for us to move forward as a territory without facing it directly but I do not want what has happened in the past 24 months should be removed by what has happened in the last two days. "
Kilpatrick promised to appeal the verdict. But a few weeks later, during the stalled settlement negotiations, he quickly agreed to a $ 8.4 million settlement after studying a motion by Mike Stefani, a police lawyer, containing evidence that Kilpatrick and Beatty swore falsely in their deposition and trial statements. The Detroit City Council decided to pay $ 8.4 million to two officers involved in a civil lawsuit and a former third officer who filed a separate lawsuit against Kilpatrick. The Detroit City Council was not informed of text messages or confidentiality agreements to keep them private when Kilpatrick and city lawyers asked the board to approve a $ 8.4 million settlement.
The Detroit Free Press, The Detroit News, and the Detroit City Council are charged under the Freedom of Information Act of Michigan (FOIA) which requests that cities release all residential-related documents. The FOIA lawsuit ordered Mike Stefani to be overthrown by the plaintiff. Stefani revealed in deposition the existence of a confidentiality agreement signed by all parties to keep secret intimate messages sent between Kilpatrick and his chief of staff, Christine Beatty. The City of Detroit Law Department initially denied the existence of a "secret deal", but then fought unsuccessfully to the Michigan Supreme Court to keep the documents sealed, arguing that they were personal communications.
Unsealed documents revealed the tactics of Kilpatrick and the Detroit City Law Department to hide a series of text messages contrary to a brief testimony of Kilpatrick and Beatty. These documents provide the basis for criminal investigation of the spouse.
The secret deal calls on Brown to lose $ 3 million, Nelthrope for losing $ 2 million and Harris giving up $ 400,000 if they ever disclose information; Stefani will lose $ 2.6 million in legal fees if she or any of her employees ever disclose the existence of a text message.
Investigations by Wayne City Prosecutor Kym Worthy concluded with Kilpatrick and Beatty charged with barriers to justice, conspiracy, offenses in office, and perjury. The Council requested that Kilpatrick resign as mayor and that Jennifer Granholm used his governor's authority to remove Kilpatrick from office for his actions in the hearing. Granholm said the investigation was like a court and that his role would "function in a manner similar to a judicial officer."
Kilpatrick said he had repaid $ 8.4 million through "hard work for the city" and dismissed the intention to remove him from his post as "political rhetoric."
Text message scandal
In January 2008, Detroit Free Press revealed more than 14,000 text messages exchanged between Kilpatrick and Beatty on SkyTel pagers issued by their city in late 2002 and early 2003. Dates are important because they include the expected time period of the Manoogian Mansion and the dismissal of Gary Brown, respectively. Most text messages were released in late October 2008 by Circuit Court Judge Timothy Kenny, who instructed that some sections be edited.
Text messaging is at the heart of the $ 8.4 million secret deal deal by the city of Detroit. Lawyers for the city have been trying since 2004 to hide text messages on the grounds that it is personal and personal communication. But the city order authorized by Kilpatrick during his first term as mayor said that all electronic communications sent on municipal equipment should be "used in an honest, ethical and legal manner" and warned, "not considered private or personal." A mayor's spokeswoman said the policy applies only to city-owned equipment, and text messages are excluded as it is sent on a leased device.
Kilpatrick and Beatty, both in separate marriages at the time, did discuss the business of the city at times in their text; However, many of the series of messages depicting sexual intercourse outside of their marriage, often in graphic detail. Text messages further illustrate the use of their city funds to organize a romantic getaway, their fears caught by the mayor's police protection unit, and evidence that the couple conspired to sack Detroit Police Deputy Vice Chief Gary Brown.
On March 18, 2008, the Detroit City Council issued a non-binding resolution requiring Kilpatrick to resign as mayor. Voting is 7-1 with Monica Conyers as the only member to vote no. Martha Reeves was not present in the voting. The resolution quotes 33 of Kilpatrick's reasons for withdrawing, from a secret settlement deal, to mandatory audits not submitted to the state, to accuse Kilpatrick of "repeatedly obscuring the truth." Kilpatrick dismissed the voice as irrelevant and stated that he would not resign as mayor. The council responded by asking an independent lawyer, Bill Goodman, to "explore the process that may be taken by the mayor from the office."
On March 26, 2008, Free Press published another text message that contradicted Kilpatrick's testimony that Brown's work was not stopped. Six weeks after Brown's work with the Detroit Police Department ended and hours before Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox announced the findings of his office's investigation into the mayor's scandal, Kilpatrick sent a message to his staff on June 24, 2003:
We have to answer that question? Why Gary Brown was fired, It will be asked, I need a brief and strong answer.... I just need a good answer whatever it is.
In a hearing in a whistleblower trial, Kilpatrick stated that Brown was "not appointed" from his duties as Deputy Chief of Police and head of the department's Internal Affairs unit. The jury agreed with Brown's opinion that he was fired and not "not elected."
Criminal Acts
On March 24, 2008, Wayne Kym Worthy District Attorney announced a 12-count criminal charge against Kilpatrick and former Detroit Chief of Staff Christine Beatty, accusing Kilpatrick of eight felonies and Beatty with seven. The allegations for both include false oaths, offenses in the office, and justice barriers. It is worth advising that others in the Kilpatrick administration can also be charged. Preliminary investigations scheduled for September 22, 2008, were released by both defendants, allowing the case to be directly processed to court.
In March 2008, a group of Kilpatrick supporters created the "Detroit Justice Fund" to help cover the cost of the mayor's legal defense. Members of the funding committee include former San Francisco mayor Willie Brown and former DTE executive Martin Taylor. Greg Mathis, a retired District Court judge and prosecutor for his own television court, was listed as a committee member, but denied such support. He then asked Kilpatrick to resign.
In early August 2008, Detroit's WXYZ-TV reported that on July 23 of that year, Kilpatrick had violated the terms of his guarantee when he briefly traveled to the neighboring Canadian city of Windsor, Ontario, where he met with Windsor Mayor Eddie Francis about a deal to own the city of Windsor took over the operational control of the Detroit-Windsor Tunnel in exchange for a $ 75 million loan to a cash-strapped city in Detroit. While Kilpatrick claims that Francis has requested a meeting without prior notice, some Windsor city officials, including Francis, claimed that Kilpatrick actually requested the meeting. Kilpatrick travels without notifying the court, as required by the terms of the guarantee agreement. As a result, on August 7, 2008, Kilpatrick was retired for the night in Wayne City Prison. This is the first time in history that a seated Detroit mayor has been ordered to jail. In issuing the order, Chief Justice Ronald Giles stated that he could not treat the mayor differently from "John Sixpack." On August 8, 2008, after arguments on behalf of Kilpatrick by lawyers Jim Parkman and Jim Thomas, Judge Thomas Jackson overturned the arrest warrant and allowed Kilpatrick to be released on a $ 50,000 cash bond post and further conditions that the mayor was not traveling and using an electronic tracking device.
On the same day Kilpatrick was released under a second guarantee agreement, Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox announced that two new crime charges have been filed against the mayor for attacking or harassing a law officer. New claims arise from accusations that Kilpatrick on July 24, 2008, prompted two Wayne County Sheriff Deputies who tried to serve a subpoena on Bobby Ferguson, Kilpatrick's allies, and potential witnesses in a forthcoming oath trial.
On September 4, 2008, Kwame Kilpatrick pleaded guilty to two alleged crime barriers to justice and did not plead to attack the deputy. As part of the defense treaty, he agreed to serve four months in Wayne City Prison, pay a million-dollar refund to the city of Detroit, submit his license to practice law, five years probation and not run for public office during his probation period. He was also asked to resign as mayor of Detroit and surrender his state pension from a six-year service at the Michigan House of Representatives before being elected mayor. In an appropriation given as part of his defense, Kilpatrick admits he lied under oaths several times. His last day at the office was September 18, 2008.
Defamation suit
Kilpatrick was named in a defamation suit with Christine Beatty and then Ella Bully-Cummings police chief. The lawsuit was brought by two police officers who claimed to have been maligned in the media by city officials.
The lawsuit came from a 2004 incident in which the two cops pulled Beatty to speed up. The officers claimed that Beatty was angry at being stopped and frankly asked the officers, "Do you know who I am?" when the officers came to the vehicle. The officers alleged that, when stopped, Beatty called Bully-Cummings to have the officers cancel, which they were instructed to do. When reports of the incident began to appear in the media, Bully-Cummings said that officers were harassing Beatty, and Kilpatrick said the dismissal "looked like a setting".
The parties in the lawsuit went into mediation recommending a $ 25,000 settlement that was rejected twice by the Detroit City Council.
In January 2008, it was revealed through a text message that Kilpatrick and Beatty were involved in a sexual relationship both of which were rejected under oath. The lawyers for the officers said, "I might take a different position for this case now. The mayor has been exposed and I may want more money for my clients now."
On February 19, 2008, the Detroit City Council agreed to settle a $ 25,000 lawsuit. The attorney's lawyer accepted the settlement and told the officers, "They do not want to get involved in this scandal."
Synagro sludge contract
According to the Detroit News (June 24, 2010), Kwame Kilpatrick, his father Bernard and Kilpatrick Civic Fund may be important figures in mud transport contracts who see city council chairman Monica Conyers (wife of Rep. John Conyers) and chairman Sam Riddle's staff convicted of conspiracy and bribery. "Kilpatrick and his father also know, but have not been sued, in evidence about the brilliance of waste, the $ 1.2 billion sludge waste of the Detroit City Council contract awarded to Synagro Technologies Inc. in 2007. According to court documents and people familiar with the case. , former Synagro official James Rosendall made a major contribution to the Kilpatrick Civic Fund and gave Kilpatrick a free flight to Las Vegas and Mackinac Island, Rosendall also told investigators that he made a cash payment to Bernard N. Kilpatrick, who told Rosendall that he gave him access to City Hall., The record shows. "Rosendall and consultant Synagro, Rayford Jackson were also convicted for bribes.
Call back campaign
The Wayne County Election Committee approved the withdrawal of a petition to remove Kilpatrick as mayor on the settlement of millions of dollars ($ 9,000,000) in a reporting complaint against the city, and allegations that Kilpatrick misled the City Council for approval of the settlement. The withdrawal petition was filed by Douglas Johnson, a city council candidate. Kilpatrick appealed to the commission to reconsider his decision on the grounds that Johnson was not a resident of Detroit. Johnson also requested that Jennifer Granholm use his powers as Governor to remove Kilpatrick from office.
On March 12, 2008, at the request of the Mayor's office, the Wayne County Electoral Commission canceled prior approval for a recall. The Mayor's Office believes that there is no evidence that the organizer, Douglas Johnson, actually lives within the Detroit city limits. Johnson stated that his group would reuse other people whose lives would not be a problem. On March 27, 2008, a second recall request was filed against Kilpatrick by Angelo Brown. Brown states in his influence that Kilpatrick is too busy with his legal matters to be effective. A spokesman for Kilpatrick, James Canning, again dismissed this latest memory by saying: "This is Mr. Brown's right to petition, but it is just another attempt by a politician who hopes to make headlines."
On May 14, the Detroit City Council decided to ask Michigan's governor, Jennifer Granholm, to move Kilpatrick from office.
Channels grant money to wife
Kilpatrick uses his influence in the Michigan legislature to channel state grant funds to two organizations that are not clear on their project description. The groups were run by friends from Kilpatrick and both agreed to subcontract U.N.I.T., a company owned by Kilpatrick's wife, Carlita. Carlita is the only employee and the company receives $ 175,000 from the organization. Detroit 3D is one of the group and the State canceled its second and final installment of $ 250,000 because 3D refused to reveal details about how the funds were spent.
Disapproval of courtesy
In 2002, the Washington police D.C. announced that they will only offer professional courtesy protection to Kilpatrick when he conducts official business in the nation's capital. D.C. the police no longer provided police protection after working hours to Kilpatrick because he had not partied during his previous visit. Sergeant Tyrone Dodson of Washington D.C. explained by saying "we came to this decision because we felt that a late-night party on Kilpatrick's Mayor's side would make our officials too thin and might lead to an incident at one of the clubs." The Kilpatrick Administration alleges that the statement and actions of the Washington D.C. is part of a political conspiracy to "destroy" the mayor. Kilpatrick's father-in-law, Carlton Poles is a D.C. police officer. veteran.
Appointment of special employees and families
It was revealed that at a certain time there were about 100 people appointed by Kilpatrick working with the city. The Detroit Free Press checked the city records and found that 29 of Kilpatrick's closest friends and family were appointed to positions in various city departments. This recruitment practice became known as 'friends and family plans'. Some of the designated people did not have much experience, while others, among them, Uncle Kilpatrick, Ray Cheeks and cousin Nneka Cheeks, faked their rà © de. Kilpatrick's cousin Patricia Peoples was appointed deputy director of human resources, giving him the ability to hire more Kilpatrick friends and family without such placement being seen as a mayor's promise. Although political promises are not illegal, Kilpatrick's pledge volume is compared to all promises made by the Detroit mayor since 1970, along with Kilpatrick's cuts on thousands of city jobs, making his appointment controversial.
Jobs held by friends and family range from secretarial positions to heads of departments. The appointed officials had an average salary increase of 36% compared with a 2% increase in 2003 and a 2% increase in 2004 for fellow city workers. Some of the biggest pay increases were for April Edgar, Christine Beatty's half-sister, whose salary increase was 86% for 5 years. One of Kilpatrick's cousins, Ajene Evans, has a 77% increase in her same salary. The largest salary increase among the 29 people raised was from LaTonya Wallace-Hardiman who went from $ 32,500 to the staff secretary, becoming an executive assistant who earned $ 85.501-163% in five years.
Abuse of alleged power
It was revealed on July 15, 2008 by WXYZ reporter Steve Wilson that in 2005 Kwame Kilpatrick, Christine Beatty and police chief Ella Bully-Cummings allegedly used their position to help an influential Baptist minister arrested for asking prostitutes to get her case laid off.. The arresting officer, Antoinette Bostic, was told by his supervisor that Mangedwa Nyathi was a minister (Assistant Pastor at Hartford Memorial Baptist Church on the west side of Detroit), and that the mayor and police chief summoned to convince Bostic not to appear in court. , in which case the judge will be forced to cancel the case against Nyathi. Bostic ignored his superiors and appeared in court. Defense lawyer Charles Hammons has delayed the case several times and declared in court that "The mayor told me yesterday that the case will not advance." Hammons admits to Wilson that this is a fact and that this is how many cases for people who know the mayor in Detroit are tackled. Bully-Cummings angrily denies that he ever asked his officers to commit such inappropriate acts. Kilpatrick stated that Wilson of WXYZ "just made up more stories."
Attacking police officer
On July 24, 2008, around 4 pm Detective Wayne County Sheriff Brian White and Joanne Kinney, an investigator from Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy's office, went to Kilpatrick's brother, Ayanna Kilpatrick, in an attempt to serve a subpoena. Ayanna Kilpatrick married Daniel Ferguson, a cousin of Bobby Ferguson, who was later indicted along with Kwame Kilpatrick. While on the front porch of the house, Kwame Kilpatrick came out of the house with his bodyguards and pushed the deputy sheriff, as Sheriff Warren Evans said, "... pushed him with significant strength to make him soar to the prosecutor's investigator". The mayor shouted at Kinney, "How can a black woman get into a car with a man called White?" Evans went on to say, "There are armed executive officers, my officers are there armed, and they all have a very good feeling not to let them rise"... and "both officers wisely" leave the property and return to their office to report the incident. "
Sheriff Evans stated that because of the "politically charged nature" of the incident, the case has been transferred to the Michigan State Police for investigation. Evans's daughter, who works at Kwame Kilpatrick's staff, resigned shortly after this incident.
2010 indictment for tax evasion and mail fraud
On May 8, 2007, WXYZ-TV reported that Kilpatrick used $ 8,600 from Kilpatrick Civil Fund to bring his wife, three sons and nanny on a week's vacation to a five-star California resort, La Costa Resort and Spa. The Fund, controlled by Kilpatrick's relatives and friends, was created to improve the city of Detroit through voter education, economic empowerment, and crime prevention. Tax and accounting experts say the use of funds by Kilpatrick is a violation of IRS regulations. The story was also compounded after WXYZ cameras captured Kilpatrick in anger that pulled the microphone out of the hands of reporter Ray Sayah and tossed it.
On June 23, 2010, Kilpatrick was charged over 19 federal counts including 10 counts of fraudulent letters, three counts of wire fraud, five charges of filing false tax returns, and one counting of taxes. Every count of fraud carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in jail and a $ 250,000 fine. Each tax calculation contains a maximum of three or five years and a fine of $ 250,000.
It is said that Kilpatrick designed the scheme to use Kilpatrick Civil Fund to pay for personal expenses and to fund the mayor's campaign. Some of the charges charged include yoga, golf clubs, summer camps for his children, private trips, rent on Cadillac DeVille, moving costs, crisis managers to oversee his public image, and focus groups.
Investigating FBI corruption against Kilpatrick's family and friends
The Federal Bureau of Investigation investigates corruption within Detroit city hall; in particular, how contracts are awarded. Through the use of confidential videos, tapping, and informers, the FBI investigated whether Bernard Kilpatrick, father of Kwame Kilpatrick and former husband of US Representative Carolyn Cheeks-Kilpatrick, was involved in a payment scheme to direct the city's business to the contractor and then illegally channel the money or bribe back to his son, the mayor. The FBI also announced that Derrick Miller, a close friend of Kilpatrick who is a key adviser in Kilpatrick's campaign and the most recent (2007) is the chief information officer of the Detroit City, referred to as the target of a corruption inquiry. Kandia Milton, the deputy mayor, who runs the city for a day when Kilpatrick was jailed for breaching bail, pleaded guilty to federal bribery allegations involving the sale of city-owned land.
SEC investments into pension funds affect hawking
In 2012, the Securities and Exchange Commission indicted Kilpatrick and former city treasurer Jeffrey W. Beasley for receiving $ 180,000 in travel, hotel rooms and prizes from companies seeking investment from municipal retirement funds. Chauncey C. Mayfield and his company were also charged. The Company received a $ 117 million investment in the trust of its controlled real estate investment. MayfieldGentry went on to misuse $ 3.1 million of retirement funds revealed during an influx of circulation investigations. Mayfield pleaded guilty in 2013. The case is scheduled for June 2014,
Resignation and incarnation
On March 24, 2008, Kilpatrick was charged with eight alleged crimes, including false oaths, wrongdoings at the office, and contempt for justice. On May 13, 2008, the Detroit City Council approved a resolution to ask Michigan governor Jennifer Granholm to remove Kilpatrick from office. On August 8, 2008, Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox announced two new crime charges had been filed against Kilpatrick for attacking and harassing a law officer.
On September 4, 2008, Kilpatrick announced his resignation as mayor, effective Sept. 18, after pleading guilty to two crimes for obstruction of justice arising from a complex settlement scheme in a civil case in which he lied about extra-marital marriage under oath, then cause the case to be settled at a premium price in return for the parties' agreement not to disclose the affair. He then misrepresented the settlement to the citizens of Detroit and the City Council. As a result of his guilty plea, Kilpatrick will pay damages to Detroit for a million dollars, lose his pension, serve four months in Wayne County jail, undergo a five-year trial period, and submit his legal license; he is also forbidden to run for public office for five years.
In the case of a separate assault, he pleaded for no contest for one alleged crime of attack and deters a police officer in exchange for the second charge of the attack being imposed. The agreement also requires his resignation and 120 days in prison, to be served concurrently with the time of imprisonment for the amount of perjury. Kilpatrick was sentenced on October 28, 2008. The judge ordered Kilpatrick not to be given an opportunity to be released early, but instead served all 120 days in jail.
In a court hearing held in November and December 2009 it was revealed that some of Detroit's leading businessmen gave unsecured loans to Kilpatrick and his wife in quid-pro-quo for his resignation. The total loan amount is $ 240,000.
Detroit City Council President Kenneth Cockrel, Jr. replacing Kilpatrick as mayor at 12:01 am on September 19, 2008.
First detention and imprisonment
Judge David Groner sentenced former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick to four months in prison on Tuesday, October 28, 2008, for a sex-and-text scandal, calling it "arrogant and challenging" and questioning the sincerity of the guilty plea that ended his career at City Hall. The punishment was part of a plea agreement committed a month earlier. "When someone gets 120 days in jail, they have to get 120 days in jail," Groner said. Kilpatrick was also given a 120-day punishment for attacking a sheriff who tried to provide a summons in July. He was seen grinning, laughing, and even calling the punishment a "joke". Wayne County Sheriff Warren Evans says that they bring 40,000 prisoners to jail each year, but Kilpatrick will remain separate from the general population and "will not be treated worse or better than other prisoners." He was placed in a safe cell, 15 feet by 10 feet with a bed, chair, toilet and shower, spent about 23 hours a day there. At 12:35 on Tuesday, February 3, 2009, Kilpatrick left jail after serving 99 days. He boarded a private Lear jet and landed in Texas that night. She was supposed to join her family at a rent house for $ 3,000 a month in Southlake, Texas.
Within weeks, Kilpatrick was hired by Covisint, a Texas subsidiary of Compuware, headquartered in Detroit. Compuware CEO, Peter Karmanos, Jr. was one of the parties who lent large sums of money to Kilpatrick at the end of 2008. Kilpatrick was released from Compuware in May 2010 after being sentenced to prison.
Restitution trial
Kilpatrick claims poverty for Judge David Groner. He says he only has $ 3,000 per month (then lowered to $ 6) for refund payments.
Judge Groner requested detailed financial records for Kwame, his wife, their children, etc. In November 2009, Kilpatrick stood on the pulpit in Detroit to explain the apparent poverty. He claimed to have no knowledge of who pays for millions of dollars, Cadillac Escalades, and other luxury costs. The former mayor also denied knowing his wife's finances, or even whether he was employed. During the trial, it was revealed that Peter Karmanos, Jr., Roger Penske, and other business leaders had given substantial money to Kilpatricks to convince the mayor to resign from his post and plead guilty. On January 20, 2010, Judge Groner ruled that Kilpatrick paid a total of $ 300,000 to the city of Detroit in 90 days.
Second sentence and containment
On February 19th, 2010, Kilpatrick failed to pay a compensation payment of $ 79,000. The court only received $ 14,000 on February 19 and then only $ 21,175 on February 22. On February 23, Judge Groner approved a warrant for Kilpatrick and decided in April that he had breached the terms of his probation. On May 25, 2010, Kilpatrick was sentenced to one and a half to five years with the Michigan Repair Department (with credit for 120 days previously served) for a trial period offense, and then taken back to prison inmates. He was stationed for fourteen days in a central hospital unit of state custody admissions. Kilpatrick then placed in the Oaks Correctional Facility. After he was indicted in federal court for an additional crime related to his alleged misuse of campaign funds, Kilpatrick lobbied for the transfer of the Oaks Correctional Facility. On July 11, 2010, he was transferred to the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP). Kilpatrick was locked up in the Federal Jail of Milan near Milan, Michigan. He was released from federal detention on April 6, 2011. During the last 118 days in state prison, Kilpatrick lives in the Cotton Correctional Facility. Kilpatrick was released on 2 August 2011. In August 2011 the court ordered Kilpatrick to pay his imprisonment fees.
2012-2013 trial and conviction of police corruption
On December 14, 2010, Kilpatrick was again indicted on new corruption allegations, in what federal prosecutors called "extortion, bribery and fraud" patterns by some of the city's most prominent officials. His father, Bernard Kilpatrick, was also indicted, like contractor Bobby Ferguson, Kilpatrick's assistant, Derrick Miller, and head of Detroit's water department, Victor Mercado. The indictment of 38 original indictments lists alleged 13 fraud schemes in awarding contracts at the city's Water and Sewerage Department, with allowance of almost $ 1,000,000. He was indicted on January 10, 2011, on indictments of 89 pages. The federal prosecutor filed a trial date in January 2012, but the defense attorney requested a trial date in the summer of 2012. The opening statement in the trial begins on September 21, 2012. The prosecutor immediately filed a large number of witnesses who gave some testimony damage. Mercado filed a temporary defense trial in progress. On March 11, 2013, despite strong defenses burdening taxpayers over a million dollars, Kilpatrick was found guilty by a jury with two dozen counts including for extortion, extortion, mail fraud, and tax evasion, among others. Shortly after confidence, speaking of Kilpatrick, Judge Nancy Edmunds decided to support the detention that said "detention is necessary under the circumstances". He was sentenced to 28 years in prison on October 10, 2013. Kilpatrick, the Federal Bureau of Prisons Register # 44678-039, served his sentence at the Federal Penitentiary, El Reno in El Reno, Oklahoma. There is no parole in the federal prison system. However, with time off for good behavior, his earliest release date is August 1, 2037 - when he will be 67 years old.
Mercado pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy, Bobby Ferguson was sentenced to 21 years in prison, Derrick Miller pleaded guilty to tax evasion and sentenced to three years of supervision, his first year in a shelter home. Bernard Kilpatrick was sentenced to 15 months in prison. Emma Bell received two years probation and was fined $ 330,000 in tax return as part of a defense agreement in which she testified that she often gave Kilpatrick large amounts of money taken from campaign accounts. First Independence Bank, used by Kilpatrick and Ferguson, was fined $ 250,000 for failing to follow anti-money laundering rules. 14 companies were suspended from bidding on contracts with the water department behind the scandal. Inland Waters Pollution Control Inc. paid $ 4.5 million in settlement of the lawsuit for their involvement with Kilpatrick, Ferguson and the Detroit Water Board. Lakeshore TolTest Corp. reached a $ 5 million settlement with the Water Council to avoid litigation.
In August 2015, the 6th US Circuit Court of Appeal reinforced his conviction but ordered that the amount of compensation be recalculated. In June 2016, the US Supreme Court rejected his appeal.
Post-mayor
Memoir
Kilpatrick writes memoirs about his life and political experience entitled Surrender: Resurrection, Fall, & amp; Revelation Kwame Kilpatrick . The book was originally scheduled for release on August 2, 2011, a date just preceding its release schedule from Michigan prison. However, the publisher delayed the release until August 9, almost a week after Kilpatrick was released. Kilpatrick appeared at public events in Michigan and elsewhere to promote his book.
The public prosecutor in Wayne County, Michigan has asked the state court to order the book publisher, Tennessee-based Creative Publishing Consultant, to send Kilpatrick's share of the proceeds for payment of Kilpatrick's criminal restitution and the cost of his detention. On November 16, 2011, a publishing lawyer failed to appear at the hearing about the matter at Wayne County Circuit Court. A warrant issued to lawyer, Jack Gritton, and forwarded to the authorities in Tennessee, where Gritton's practice is based.
See also
- Barbara L. McQuade, a US lawyer who accrues many charges against Kilpatrick.
- Louis Miriani, former Detroit mayor
- Richard Reading, former Detroit mayor
- List of American states and local politicians convicted of crimes
References
External links
Media related to Kwame Kilpatrick on Wikimedia Commons
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