Detroit Mayor Is Charged in Scandal
By MONICA DAVEY
DETROIT — Mayor Kwame M. Kilpatrick was charged on Monday with misconduct in office, obstruction of justice, conspiracy to commit obstruction of justice and perjury, felonies that could end his political career and send him to prison for a lengthy term if he is convicted.
Among the eight felony counts against him, Mr. Kilpatrick is accused of authorizing the city of Detroit to settle an $8.4 million lawsuit with several former police officers “with the corrupt motive” of preventing the release of text messages which would have revealed that he had lied under oath in the case, the charging documents say.
Announcing the charges, Kym L. Worthy, the Wayne County prosecutor, declared it a “very sad day” for the city and for all of Michigan, but said that central tenets of life — those that even 6-year-old children understand well — had been breached. “It would be much sadder still if true justice were ignored,” Ms. Worthy said.
Mr. Kilpatrick has until 7 a.m. Tuesday to turn himself into the authorities.
In a prepared statement he read at a news conference, Mr. Kilpatrick said he was “disappointed” by the prosecutor’s decision “but not surprised.” He expressed confidence that he would be cleared at a trial and said he would concentrate on “moving the city forward” and laid out a schedule of planned initiatives.
Daniel Webb, Mr. Kilpatrick’s attorney, said it was highly unusual to bring perjury charges in a civil case, rather than a criminal case, and said he would raise “the issue of selective prosecution” before the judge who is assigned to the case. He said that proving perjury would be difficult because many of the questions in the case were “ambiguous” and many of the answers involved “opinions.”
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Kilpatrick is delusional. He
Kilpatrick is delusional. He should have resigned weeks ago when the messages came to light. The coverup was worst than the offense. He should have owned up to the extra-marital affair when word got out a few years ago instead of hunkering down and then lying and scheming to cover his tracks. This is a massive example of work avoidance and self-delusion on his part. He'll be lucky not to go jail.
BTW, Kilpatrick should also get rid of that stupid paisley tie he is wearing in the NY Times photograph. Paisley wasn't in when it was in.
...Delusional AND toast!
…Kilpatrick is in one heck of a bind!
And the fact that there is still a belief that he is indirectly responsible for the murder of the dancer:
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?pageId=56845
Doesn’t help much either!
PS Don’t front on paisley! It never went OUT and it’s back better than ever this fall!
(,,,Kwame just doesn’t know how do paisley right, is all!)
Too much indirection to be
Too much indirection to be credible. Especially coming from someone who likes paisley.
PS Don’t front on paisley!
PS Don’t front on paisley! It never went OUT and it’s back better than ever this fall!
It's the new black right?
I hope that you didn't order more than a half-dozen ties and not one shirt.
Kwame is trifling - plain and simple
1. NEVER lie to the Guvmint
2. Aint nobody going to jail for you, but MAYBE your Mama - and not even her.
3. The girlfriend aint the wife - i.e., they can squeeze her.
4. ' The Man' ain't got NOTHIN' to do with this.
A Few More Rules To Live By
1. If there are more than two people in the room, one of them is a spy.
2. You should only lie to the government if you are the only one who knows the truth.
3. The FBI will never ask you a question that it does not already know the answer to.
4. If you live outside the law, you must be honest. (courtesy of Bob Dylan)
5 . You must move slowly when your hand is in the lion's mouth. (My paternal grandmother)
6. Trouble always comes in bunches.
Same?
This is the same grandmother who cut a guy in the neck?
The same grandmother. She
The same grandmother. She read the Bible every day and never failed to go to church. I never heard her say a bad word about anybody except Richard Nixon, Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan.
Get a video camera.
Don't let her slip away. Get a video camera and ask everybody who ever knew her to tell everything they know.
She sounds amazing.