The never ending saga of Kwame And family .

I will go ahead and say it , Kwame Kilpatrick and all his hoodlums and thugs ( That means everyone around him ) Have screwed the Detroit city Taxpayers out of so much money From kwame's reign as Mayor , that they should all be given lengthy prison sentences ! no questions asked !




The Freep.com
Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox has filed a civil lawsuit against a cousin of former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, alleging she used thousands of dollars of charitable money to cover personal expenses, including jewelry, a restaurant tab at the Roostertail, a veterinary bill and bridal expenses.

According to the lawsuit, filed Wednesday in Ingham County Circuit Court, Nneka Cheeks, while employed by the mayor, diverted $25,000 from the Manoogian Mansion Restoration Society's bank account for her own personal use. The charitable fund, which Cheeks had access to, was supposed to be used to help preserve and restore the Manoogian.

Instead, the lawsuit claims, Cheeks dipped into the fund and withdrew more than $7,000 in cash and made roughly $17,000 in questionable payments to third parties, including:

• $3,943.40 to Pioneer Credit Recovery.

• $3,590 to the Roostertail restaurant in Detroit.

• $2,631.06 to Jewelry Factory in Livonia.

• $2,500 to Florida-based golf academy Leadbetter Orlando.

• $1,300 to Michigan Veterinary Specialists.

• $1,140 to Brides Made Fit.

The civil complaint asks the court to order Cheeks to account for the funds she handled, to return the money and to pay damages in the amount of triple the sum she is alleged to have diverted.

As of late Friday, Cheeks had not yet been served because Cox's office could not locate her.

A call to her home by the Free Press was met with an expletive and then a hang-up.

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Clarke upsets Kilpatrick as family dynasty ends

A new start for Michigan ?

Maybe , There is still a few Bad seeds to get rid of before Michigan stands a chance at surviving .

Gov Granholm will be going away , that is also a good sign , hopefully the Corruption and stupidity of Michigan Politics goes with her and Kilpatrick .

Freep.com
State Sen. Hansen Clarke staged a stunning upset victory Tuesday night over seven-term Congresswoman Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick.

With 53% of the overall district results in, Clarke had a 48-39% lead over the incumbent, who was first elected to Congress in 1996.

A subdued crowd at Kilpatrick's election night party at the Doubletree Fort Shelby in downtown Detroit waited for the final numbers to roll in, hoping that absentee ballots in Detroit might reverse the trend.

"You don't start dancing," said Kilpatrick supporter Sharon McPhail, a former Detroit city councilwoman. "You have to wait for the absentees."

At Clarke's party at the Centaur Bar in Detroit, the crowd cheered as Clarke greeted supporters. He said the election was a reflection of the power of the people of Michigan.

"This was bigger than an opponent and not about the incumbent or a family," Clarke said. "For decades, people have run for office to serve themselves, their family and not the people of the city. You must be mindful that elected officials come and go, but people, not politicians, always have the power."

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Kilpatrick imprisoned, faces 1½ to 5 years

HA HA !
Bye Bye Kwame , Enjoy The fruits of your labor !
Oh he will Be fine in the Big house , Maybe he can spend the time learning a new trade .
I bet this somBitch will even collect Unemployment !




Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick entered the Michigan state prison system today after being sentenced to 1½ to five years for violating his probation.

His imprisonment, imposed today by Wayne County Circuit Judge David Groner, also cost Kilpatrick his job.

“Kwame Kilpatrick will be off the Compuware Corporation payroll at the end of the month," said a company statement. "We don’t have any choices. It’s an unfortunate situation, and we feel bad for his family, but our hands are tied.”

Leaders across metro Detroit also called the situation unfortunate, but they said it was time to move on.

Earlier, a frustrated Groner ordered Kilpatrick to serve 18 months to five years in prison, declaring that Kilpatrick had lied while on probation and maliciously hid money that was supposed to go toward repaying the City of Detroit $1 million in restitution.

“Your testimony in this court amounted to perjury,” Groner said, alluding to the ex-mayor’s explanations for how hundreds of thousands of dollars passed through his family’s bank accounts without being accounted for, or applied to, Kilpatrick’s restitution obligations.

Prosecutors seek 2- to 5-year sentence for Kilpatrick

HA, HA ,
And I hope he Gets it ! It would serve him right after what he has done to Detroit , And when his sentence is up , Texas Can have Him back .

The Freep.com
The Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office is recommending a sentence of 2-5 years in prison for former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick for violating his probation from the text message scandal by failing to meet financial reporting obligations and not turning over tax refunds and political money.

The recommendation was made in a sentencing memorandum filed this afternoon with the court clerk’s office.

The memo states that the sentencing guideline of 0-17 months “does not adequately reflect the severity of his conduct.” It goes on to state that “the defendant cannot show any rehabilitative potential when he continuously lies to the court and indeed has defrauded the court and the City of Detroit out of its rightfully owed restitution payments.”

In his sentencing memo, defense lawyer Michael Alan Schwartz said it’s best for everyone – except the former mayor’s most bitter haters – to keep Kilpatrick outside and drumming up sales for Covisint, a subsidiary of Detroit-based Compuware, so he can pay the city.

But he has been working , and he still is not paying
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FBI sting leads from N.J. to Kilpatricks

Crooked is as crooked does !
The father of former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick , looks to be possibly going to Prison , right along with Kwame himself and an aid or two .

The FBI investigation into corruption of Governing officials leads right back to Kwame's Father , and the silly part is the Dumbass knew the whole time the FBI was watching him ! But in true Mobster style , in made no difference to them !.

Being a gangster has it's moments , but it can also land you in prison .
And that is right where they all belong !

Freep.com
The wide-ranging investigation into Detroit public corruption has direct links to an East Coast sting operation that featured a fictitious insurance company run by the FBI, the Free Press has learned.

In New Jersey, the federal government successfully prosecuted 14 public officials and associates linked to bribes from federal agents and informants posing as officials for Coastal Solutions, a phony company the FBI set up to snare corrupt officials. All received prison sentences.

In Detroit, there have been no charges to date from the East Coast sting, but federal documents portray the father of former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and a mayoral aide as front men in a deal that would have resulted in payoffs to the Detroiters in exchange for the city hiring the fake company.

The deal never went through. But documents contend that over a period of months in 2007, Bernard Kilpatrick, mayoral aide Marc Cunningham and others were eagerly courted by officials with Coastal Solutions. Cunningham allegedly had Coastal Solutions send a $3,000 Super Bowl ticket to him at City Hall.

Bernard Kilpatrick's meetings with Coastal took him from the Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City to a championship fight in Las Vegas. Also in Vegas were Kwame Kilpatrick and Cunningham.

After the fight, the documents say, Cunningham left a voice mail with Coastal Solutions saying Kwame Kilpatrick favored the deal. The FBI interpreted that to mean the mayor and others were willing to do a deal in return for bribes.

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Feds have evidence ex-Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick took bribes

it is so nice to see in print , what many people in the Detroit area have known for years , Kwame Kilpatrick is nothing but a criminal , a wannabe mob boss , a bitch ass Gangsta , All for his profit and not for the City of Detroit .

I personally hope they put his dumb fat ass in prison .

For decades Detroit has been raped by thugs like the city council , the Union's , and big money contractors , and now with evidence pointing right to kwame's hot hands , it gets even more involved .

maybe after a Good Cleansing by the new Mayor (Bing), Detroit can turn around and be an awesome city again

The Freep
A contractor who pleaded guilty in an ongoing corruption probe in Detroit has told investigators that he handed as much as $100,000 in bribes to then-Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick in 2002, according to interviews and sworn documents reviewed by the Free Press.

The contractor, Karl Kado of West Bloomfield, also told the FBI he paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to the mayor's father, and thousands more to a close mayoral aide, according to the records and interviews.

Kado told authorities he paid Kwame Kilpatrick in four or five installments of about $20,000 each. Kado, who is awaiting sentencing for paying bribes to protect multimillion-dollar Cobo Center contracts, said he sometimes delivered the money in envelopes to Kilpatrick's office on the 11th floor at City Hall, and sometimes Kilpatrick dropped by Cobo to get the cash.

The allegations are significant because they show, for the first time, that the government has secured the cooperation of someone who says he gave payoffs directly to Kilpatrick.

Authorities obtained the information as part of a years-long, complex and wide-ranging investigation in Detroit and Southfield that has produced a series of public corruption charges and 10 guilty pleas.

• Related story: Who's charged so far in U.S. corruption investigation

In pursuing Kilpatrick, investigators tracked cash moving in and out of bank accounts and wiretapped the phone of his father, among others, while slowly trying to build a case.

FBI agents also contend in sworn statements that they have grounds to believe Kilpatrick and his associates used the mayor's office to run a criminal enterprise, a term the FBI reserves for organized crime and racketeering cases.

It remains to be seen whether Kilpatrick or his father ever face federal charges.

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Judge to ex-mayor: Time to pay the piper

Oh Kwame !
serves this jackass right , he like a few mayors before him , was nothing but a crook , a thief and a big fat thug Who thought he could get away with everything .
With all he has done he should gladly pay the 1 million , it would be better than the 9 million he paid out in bribes !



the Freep
It's called a do-over. A mulligan. An oops-let's-try-this-again play.
The mistake the court made last February was trusting former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick to get out of jail, move to Texas and begin paying the city the $1 million he owed in restitution. (The prosecutor didn't trust him, but that's Kym Worthy's job. After all, she got him convicted of perjury.)

All Judge David Groner did Wednesday was treat Kilpatrick like the convicted felon he is. Groner made clear that Kilpatrick could not be trusted. He made clear that the last bit of special treatment Kilpatrick got, whenever it was, was the last special treatment he would get.

And as nice as Groner was to Kilpatrick's attorney, uber-barrister Willie Gary, and as patient as Groner was sitting through endless irrelevant testimony about how Kilpatrick and his wife spent money, Groner's bottom line was: "Let's count the money" that should have gone to the city.

The tally? More than $319,000 -- now due in 90 days. Groner also made clear that the former mayor will pay the city all of the discount restitution he owes, stemming from an $8.4-million whistle-blower lawsuit settlement that never should have happened.

You will get no more details here. Groner's comments will be all over this newspaper, our Web site and television.

But what you will get here is a sigh of relief that Groner did what should have been done in the first place. When a politician becomes a felon, he is no longer a politician. He is no longer royalty. He is no longer to be afforded a wink and a nod. The former mayor now has deadlines. And he has duties. He must reach out and touch his probation officer in Michigan, instead of Texas, by phone every week.

Kilpatrick walked into the courthouse as the arrogant young politician, still acting like da mayor. He walked out, a convicted felon with no more special privileges. It was a fitting irony that he found no car waiting at the sidewalk and had to walk back inside to wait for a ride to the airport.

If Kilpatrick had just paid the restitution, all of it, a year ago, instead of flaunting his luxurious lifestyle in Texas (the mansion, the SUVs, the hundreds of dollars spent at car washes and Chick-fil-A), Detroit might already have been a distant memory for him. If Kilpatrick truly wants Detroit to leave him alone, then he should leave Detroit alone.

Maybe now, he'll just write the check.