" This is so racist. I can't wait to get back to Nigeria and start my emails
up again using my identity as Gen Kachinga Cheatchusuckah who has access
to Idi Amin's secret gold stash in a Swiss broom closet."
Posted on 06/23/2010 1:45:24 PM PDT by Kieri
Ex-Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick has been indicted on federal fraud and tax charges.
Federal prosecutors say the alleged scheme is related to the Kilpatrick Civic Fund, a tax-exempt fund that was supposed to pay for voter education and other purposes.
Instead, Kilpatrick is accused of using it as a slush fund to take cash payments for himself, friends and relatives.
In an indictment filed Wednesday, he's accused of failing to report at least $640,000 in taxable income between 2003 and 2008, which includes money, private jet flights and personal expenses paid by the civic fund.
The government says he used the money to pay for yoga and golf lessons, golf clubs, summer camp for his kids, personal travel, moving expenses, as well as "counter-surveillance and anti-bugging equipment."
He'll be arraigned July 13.
Wayne County Circuit Court Judge David Groner sentenced Kilpatrick to up to five years in prison on May 25 for violating probation stemming from his conviction for lying under oath about an affair with his chief of staff. The 2008 criminal case forced him out of office.
I sure hope the voters learned that Democrats are crooks.
Add these charges to assualting police officers...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_3DmqCvVgs&feature=fvst
As I said before, scumbag.
What took so long?
Oh, I know that answer....DemocRAT!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/video/2010/05/25/VI2010052502699.html
How many crimes did this scum commit?
Speaking of DemocRATS.
Is cold cash Jefferson in prison yet? I haven’t seen anything
about that in awhile.
What else, pray tell, would an ex-Detroit mayor named "Kwame" be?
As a DummyCrap his only crime was in getting caught.
" This is so racist. I can't wait to get back to Nigeria and start my emails
up again using my identity as Gen Kachinga Cheatchusuckah who has access
to Idi Amin's secret gold stash in a Swiss broom closet."
I see you too sent money to him after he emailed us...< /humor >
The feds may not be done with Kwame. These indictments were in response to the thousands he fleeced from a so-called “voter education fund.”
I think there’s more to come, and more names that will be added.
NO! He is not in jail...
June 23, 2010
Jefferson, who turned 63 in March, remains free, pending resolution of the appeal of the guilty verdicts returned by a Virginia jury last August on 11 of the 16 counts charged by the Justice Department.
U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III sentenced Jefferson in November to 13 years in prison, most of which relate to what prosecutors said was a scheme in which he demanded, and in some cases, received payments from business executives to family-owned businesses in return for his help getting contracts in Western Africa.
A key argument in his appeal is likely to be over Jefferson’s contention that his actions weren’t related to his official duties, thereby voiding the bribery-related charges, an argument that Ellis rejected during trial.
Once the transcripts are filed with the court, the 4th Circuit will set dates for Jefferson’s attorneys to file briefs, for the prosecutors to file their response and then for Jefferson to file his response. At some point, the court will set a date for oral arguments, likely before a three-judge panel.
It usually takes between eight and 12 months for a ruling once a briefing schedule is set. But before a schedule can be set, the transcripts must be filed.
On another matter, Judge Ellis has ruled that Jefferson, whose travel is restricted to the New Orleans area and Washington D.C., where his lawyers have offices, could make three trips.
One is to attend the funeral Saturday for his sister Brenda, who died May 17, before she was expected to testify at an upcoming criminal trial for Jefferson’s brother, Mose, who is serving a 10-year sentence from another criminal case.
Jefferson was also given permission by Ellis to travel to Biloxi, Miss., with his wife, Andrea, in June so they can celebrate their 40th wedding anniversary.
The former nine-term congressman also was granted permission by Ellis to travel to Washington between May 31, and June 6. Normally, he wouldn’t need the court’s permission to visit Washington, but Jefferson’s lawyers said Jefferson wants to oversee repairs on his Washington D.C. townhouse, which he hopes to sell. The proceeds could become an issue in his bankruptcy filing in New Orleans Bankruptcy Court.
The Justice Department didn’t object to the travel, as long as arrangements are made for his travel to be monitored by a GPS monitoring device. Jefferson’s lawyers said that would be no problem, and Ellis approved the arrangement this week.
Smells more like a Presidential Pardon and appointment as CZAR of Slush Funds...
TT
Why do so many stories about Democrats contain the words “indicted”, “fraud”, “corrupt”, “nothing happened”, “alleged”?
Nice Suit! Wonder what that cost his constituents.
TT
Head are going to roll when Holder finally hears about this. If the Black Panthers get a pass, Kwame the Commie can surely use an ‘equal justice’ defense, that is, if it actually is prosecuted.
Good Lord, what a bunch of crap.
He’s walking free. He’ll be deceased before
he spends any hard time.
There’s that down-turned democRAT mouth.
He ain’t grinning now. He always looked so cocky.
Well he ain’t no black pantha that helps out at voting places
so guess he’s not on 0’s short list.
Monica Conyers is going to the big house for 37 months in Sept. Her husband is John Conyers.
Kawame's Mommy got a Subpoena from the Feds.
The question is, is this why they ramed health care through because they may end up loosing a couple of votes because they are headed for "Da-Biga-House" as they might say on the Soprano's...
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