Posted on 12/16/2014 6:27:56 AM PST by C19fan
All American ghettos have democRats in charge.
This is the future of America under Obama and leftist politics. The systematic elimination of the middle class leaves on the mega-wealthy elits and the poor.
Detroit is becoming Starnesville. “Atlas Shrugged” is become less and less fictional every day.
3/31/14 DETROIT FREE PRESS / How political corruption
deepened Detroit's crisis / By Tresa Baldas and Jim Schaefer
Kwame Kilpatrick mug shot.
EDITED Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was sentenced to 28 years in prison for running a "money-making racket" out of Detroit city hall that steered upwards of $73 millions to himself, his family and friends while the impoverished city hobbled along (into bankruptcy).
Kilpatrick was convicted on 24 of 30 counts of extortion, racketeering, bribery. Prosecutors had argued he deserved stiff sentence because he never thought he did anything wrong
Kilpatrick was sentenced to 28 years in prison for running what the government called a money-making racket out of City Hall. Kilpatrick had steered millions to himself, family and friends while an impoverished Detroit hobbled along, prosecutors said.
Kilpatrick, 43, was found guilty March 11 on 24 of 30 counts of corruption, including five counts of extortion, racketeering, bribery and several mail, wire and tax fraud charges. On three counts he was found not guilty, and on the remaining three no verdict was reached.
Kilpatrick took bribes, misused nonprofit funds and "used his power as mayor ... to steer an astounding amount of business" to his friend and co-defendant, Bobby Ferguson, who also was convicted on charges of running a racket out of the mayor's office. He chose to waste his talents on personal aggrandizement and enrichment. Detroit lost transparency....and accountability.
Judge Nancy Edmunds, U.S. District Court said she will recommend Kilpatrick be sent to a prison in Texas, where his family lives. The judge said Kilpatrick lived the high life, hosting lavish parties, accepting cash tributes and loading the city's payroll with friends and family.
"He chose to waste his talents on personal aggrandizement and enrichment," Edmunds said. ... That way of business is over. We're done." Detroit's present mayor, David Bing, echoed that sentiment. The involvement of Detroit city officials and others compounded the seriousness of Kilpatrick's crimes, Edmunds said.
Thirty-four others, including Kilpatrick's father, were convicted and jailed for public corruption. Kwame's father served as the go-to guy for contractors seeking city work. (Kwame's mother, Carolyn---a Congressman, was also jailed for corruption while serving in Congress).
Assistant U.S. Attorney Mark Chutkow called the Kilpatrick case one of the most significant cases of public corruption in the country. While Kilpatrick was mayor, Ferguson received more than $127 million in contracts, according to the government. Of that, at least $76 million in contracts were obtained illegally through the pair's extortion scheme, which involved elbowing competing contractors out of deals and shaking down others to cut Ferguson in on their contracts.
Contributing: Gina Damron and Tammy Stables Battaglia, Detroit Free Press
SOURCE http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/10/10/detroit-mayor-kwame-kilpatrick-sentencing/2958517/
Of course, I'm sure many believe evil conservatives came in with their bulldozers...
Typical DIMocRAT. Typical.
tear it down. Turn the land back into farms. Sell it to people that will work it.
Detroit as it was will never come back. Nothing is more pathetic than all of this money being spent to try to “stabilize” it in hopes that it will.
“Atlas Shrugged” is become less and less fictional every day.
Scary isn’t it?
5.56mm
Yes it is, and this time, there is no Galt’s Gulch, short of CWII.
This is actually being done. There are people buying up cheap land and starting small farms. The land there is apparently very good.
http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/239844
This is actually being done. There are people buying up cheap land and starting small farms. The land there is apparently very good.
http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/239844
I wasn’t here then. What was it?”
“Rifraff!”
Booth Tarkington, “The Magnificent Ambersons”, Chapter XXXIV
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In only took 30 years for the Dems to destroy this city.
Looks like it has attained the approximate population density of Lapeer County.
I read an article about Detroit’s decay in an archaeological journal: archaeologists now go there to study in detail what happens when cities are abandoned, so they can better understand what the transformation of Roman cities when the Empire fell, like the abandonment of the old road grid and the process of spoliation (taking architectural remnants from old buildings and reusing them).
I hope some political scientist and history PhD candidates are looking at Detroit as well.
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