Mayor Pleads Guilty, States 'I Lied Under Oath'

[The Bobster]

http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/17383212/detail.html

Mayor Pleads Guilty, States 'I Lied Under Oath'
Mayor Out Of Office

POSTED: 4:49 pm EDT September 3, 2008
UPDATED: 11:55 am EDT September 4, 2008

DETROIT -- Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick has accepted a plea deal in a perjury case and assault charges that will end his tenure as the city's mayor and send him to jail.

Wayne County Circuit Court Judge David Groner resided over the court case in which Kilpatrick agreed to plead guilty to two felony counts of obstruction of justice by committing perjury.

Part of the plea agreement includes immediate resignation within 14 days; pay restitution of $1 million; and four months in jail. He is also barred from running for public office for five years.

He will also have to hand over his law license and turn over his state pension to the city of Detroit.

 

[Gman]

Old nigger mayor out, new nigger mayor in!! Detroit signs up for more monkeyshines......

New nigra mayor to take over for old nigra mayor

 

[Arheel's Uncle]

Kwame Kilpatrick vowed a comeback. Trump made it happen

Kwame Kilpatrick, who served about 7 years, will get out of prison 20 years early thanks to Donald Trump, who commuted his historic 28-year sentence.

www.freep.com

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Trump commuted Kilpatrick's prison sentence to time served, but kept intact his $4.7 million restitution obligation stemming from the federal case, in which a jury convicted him on 24 counts, including racketeering, extortion, bribery and fraud. Trump also kept intact Kilpatrick's 3-year term of supervised release.
The White House did not say what qualified Kilpatrick for clemency, stating only that he had served about seven years of his sentence, and "has taught public speaking classes and has led Bible Study groups with his fellow inmates."

According to the White House, Trump pardoned 73 individuals, and commuted the sentences of 70 more, including Kilpatrick, whose conviction still stands. Under a commutation, a person can be freed from prison, but the conviction sticks. A pardon erases the conviction.
While prison officials shot down Kilpatrick, the persistent prisoner held on, clinging to one final hope: Trump would set him free.

A mountain of debt​

Meanwhile, Kilpatrick is facing about $11 million in debt when he gets out of prison — according to court records. His debts include:

• $552,862 judgement for accepting private jet travel to Vegas, golf outings, Prince tickets and massages from an investor who was trying to close a $117-million deal with the city's pension funds.
• $7.4-million judgement issued to a minority contractor who sued Kilpatrick and his convicted contractor friend Bobby Ferguson, claiming water contracts were unfairly steered to Ferguson.
• $852,000 in restitution to the city of Detroit stemming from the text message scandal. His last payment was made in 2013 — the year of his federal conviction.
• $1.5 million in restitution to the Detroit water department stemming from his 2013 federal conviction, which involved steering lucrative contracts to Ferguson, who got 21 years in prison for his crimes.
• $195,000 to the Internal Revenue Service for unpaid taxes.

However, given Kilpatrick's financial status, his creditors aren’t likely to get their money anytime soon as he has previously said he is broke, and has only 96 cents in the bank.

The Free Press spent years investigating Kilpatrick and won the Pulitzer Prize in 2009 for exposing many of his wrongdoings in office, including publishing text messages that showed he lied about an affair with an aide and covered up the firing of a deputy police chief during a police whistleblower trial.

During his legal ordeals, Kilpatrick lost his law license, his freedom, the right to run for office for 20 years and his marriage.