US: Detroit ex-mayor should get 28 years in prison

Associated Press ^ | Oct 3, 2013 5:05 PM EDT | Ed White

[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. …

[immadashell]

Presidential pardon by BO

If Soetoro had a son..........(AWW, you know)

[cripplecreek]

The federal judge who acquitted the Hutaree is a black female Clinton appointee.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Olog-hai.

[cripplecreek]

Yeah Matty and Kwame were also caught in a scam to seize control of the tunnel as well.

http://buildthedricnow.com/2011/05/02/wikileaks-release-raises-suspicions-of-backroom-detroit-windsor-tunnel-deal-between-kwame-kilpatrick-matty-moroun/

[Chad_the_Impaler]

[Gritty]

It's too bad ex-Mayor Soulman Young is dead. Otherwise, he should be joining him in prison.

On the other hand, they will be probably be joining each other later in Hell..

[GOPJ]

Detroit “desperately needed resolute leadership. Instead it got a mayor looking to cash in on his office through graft, extortion and self-dealing,”

It's Detroit right - they helped invent 'the Chicago Way'...

Anyone surprised?

[Liz]

LOL-—history tells us freed slaves were given the last name of their owners.