Posted on 10/03/2013 2:14:11 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick should be sent to prison for at least 28 years for “astonishing” corruption that enriched him and his family while a desperate city slid toward financial collapse, prosecutors said Thursday.
The 51-page filing came a week before Kilpatrick is to be sentenced in federal court for two dozen crimes, including racketeering conspiracy, fraud and tax offenses. The government presented a scathing summary of evidence from his months-long trial and said the corruption tops all recent cases prosecuted elsewhere in federal court.
Detroit “desperately needed resolute leadership. Instead it got a mayor looking to cash in on his office through graft, extortion and self-dealing,” the U.S. Attorney’s Office said Thursday. …
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Presidential pardon by BO and then Fed Chair position for theex-mayor.
It’s unlikely that he will receive the sentence that he deserves, but we can hope.
Yet another example of DIMocRAT rule. Can’t these perps leave everyone alone??? Apparently not.
Kwame
Kwame's mommy. Guy who beat her.
Sexy text messages, perjury charges and a Detroit political career mired in corruption brought Democratic Rep. Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick's distinguished congressional career to an end Tuesday night -- and she had only her son to blame.
That son -- former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick -- is serving five years in prison for violating the terms of his 2009 probation. He originally went to jail for perjury and corruption related to a sex and text-message scandal between him and his chief of staff in the mayor's office. He was sent back to prison in 2010 on additional perjury charges.
Although Represenative Kilpatrick's 14 years in Congress were scandal-free, and she eventually nabbed a spot on the powerful Appropriations Committee, a poll just before Tuesday's primary showed that 44 percent of voters planned to choose someone other than the incumbent because of the mess surrounding the former mayor.
The congresswoman also faced her toughest opponent ever Tuesday night in Hansen Clarke, an Ivy League-educated Michigan state senator with a compelling personal story and a slogan telling voters "It's Time for a Change." Clarke soundly defeated Kilpatrick, by 47 percent to 41 percent.--Snip--
http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/08/04/rep-carolyn-kilpatrick-loses-seat-amid-son-kwames-scandals/
Look for all these guys to get pardoned by Obama, including a few in Illinois like Blagovich and Jesse Jackson Jr.
If this happens, I hope the incomming Tea Party Prez re-arrests them and tries them on other related charges.
“The judge should give him another 28 years just for his name.”
Not his fault - his parents, yes.
And the trend continues...
While we are at it, Conyers should join his wife by winning a trip to the Big House.
Hey Kilpatrick, can I have your hats?? This crook has some very cool hats.
Amen......
The Rat party is a criminal enterprise
What! Expecting a black democrap politician NOT to be corrupt???
That’s RACIST!!!!
He was just taking what was rightfully his... like the kenyan soldiers at the mall.
Your friend was half right. After being in public office, Demonrat and RINO politicians should be given a position by juries a few steps higher up.
Wasn’t Kilpatrick also involved in a scheme with Manuel “Matty” Moroun—who owns the Ambassador Bridge between Detroit and Windsor, ON—to stop all attempts at building alternative crossings between Detroit and Windsor, ON?
HAHAHA!
I am pleasantly surprised to see that Detroit's U.S. Attorney's Office seems to be an honest outfit.
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