Posted on 08/31/2008 8:56:17 PM PDT by george76
Detroit has been shaken by claims of lurid conduct and a cover-up at city hall.
He is an ordinary 15-year-old boy who wants to know what happened to his murdered mother. Yet Jonathan Bond’s painful and protracted quest for justice has plunged him into the heart of an explosive political scandal that has shaken Detroit ...
Bond is the son of Tamara Greene, a statuesque black stripper known as Strawberry, whose murder in 2003 triggered an avalanche of sordid allegations about mayoral misconduct, police cover-ups, aromatic bubble baths, lurid text messages, extramarital affairs and a talking turtle.
The case pits Kwame Kilpatrick, the charismatic 37-year-old mayor of one of America’s most blighted metropolises, against a teenage plaintiff whose white lawyer, Norman Yatooma, has an unusually personal stake in the outcome.
Yatooma told The Sunday Times: “No reasonable compassionate person could look at Jonathan and turn away. This is a kid who had the world in front of him and had everything ripped up beneath him.”
Yatooma knows exactly how that feels. Fifteen years ago his father was murdered in Detroit when he tried to intervene in a carjacking. His killers have never been found and Yatooma has devoted much of his career to helping the children of murdered parents.
At the heart of the Kilpatrick case is a hotly disputed account of a supposed party at Manoogian Mansion, the city-owned home on the Detroit River that is the mayor’s official residence. It was there in late 2002, according to court documents, that Strawberry was hired to perform at a raucous party allegedly attended by Kilpatrick, several police officers and “nude exotic dancers”.
At one point, the court documents allege, Kilpatrick’s wife, Carlita, “arrived at the party unexpectedly and assaulted Tamara Greene and possibly one other dancer”.
(Excerpt) Read more at timesonline.co.uk ...
Is the name Bully good for the image of any law enforcement agency?
Kwame’s congress mamma must be a great mother...they talk about Palin?
LMAO - at the hip hop sub human culture.
See the messiah is omniscient. He said the mayor would “be doing astounding things” and he has.
Where are the PICS of this “statuesgue woman”?
Thanks geo.
A pic is available here, along with a link to a PDF of her autopsy.
From the timesonline...King Kwame's lurid tale is making news across the pond.
The piece is a very concise account of that lurid tale.
Stippers? I would not sully my reputation, cavorting with trollops and scarlet women. Such allegations are beneath me, a man charged to carry out the duties entrusted to me by citizens of this great city. Every waking moment is consumed by such tasks. I can assure you, such charges are baseless and without merit.
The liberals version of giving opportunity by leveling lowering the playing field.
Don't pull yourself up by boothstraps remove the boots. Heaven only knows what Obama loset if full of!
"Send strippers, guns and money,
mom, get me out of this."
Thanks for the ping. OUTSTANDING FReeper comments, links, education BUMP!
A popular T-shirt worn by many Detroiters reads:
“IT’S A BLACK THING AND YOU WOULDN’T UNDERSTAND”
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