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Detroit Mayor Gets 28 Year Sentence For Corruption

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Following his "yearslong scheme to shakedown contractors and reward allies," Kwame Kilpatrick - who served as Detroit Mayor from 2002 to 2008 - was this morning sentenced to 28 years in prison for corruption. Regarded by many as a key contributor to Detroit's eventual downfall, it seems Kilpatrick is somewhat repentant, stating, "the people here are suffering, they're hurting. A great deal of that hurt I accept responsibility for." Agents who pored over bank accounts and credit cards said Kilpatrick spent $840,000 beyond his salary during his time as mayor. Having resigned in 2008 over a sexting scandal, the scale of his corruption, prosecutors added, "exacerbated the crisis."

 

 

Via Fox News (AP),

Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was sentenced Thursday to 28 years in prison for corruption, the apparent last step after a series of scandals destroyed his political career and helped steer a crisis-laden city even deeper into trouble.

 

Kilpatrick, who served as mayor from 2002 until fall 2008, fattened his bank account by tens of thousands of dollars, traveled the country in private planes and even strong-armed his campaign fundraiser for stacks of cash hidden in her bra, according to evidence at trial.

 

"I'm ready to go so the city can move on," Kilpatrick told the judge. "The people here are suffering, they're hurting. A great deal of that hurt I accept responsibility for."

 

In March, Kilpatrick, 43, was convicted of racketeering conspiracy, fraud, extortion and tax crimes. The government called it the "Kilpatrick enterprise," a yearslong scheme to shake down contractors and reward allies. He was doomed by his own text messages, which revealed efforts to fix deals for a pal, Bobby Ferguson, an excavator who got millions of dollars in city work through the water department.

 

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Agents who pored over bank accounts and credit cards said Kilpatrick spent $840,000 beyond his salary during his time as mayor. Defense attorneys tried to portray the money as generous gifts from political supporters who opened their wallets for birthdays or holidays.

 

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Kilpatrick, a Democrat, quit office in 2008 in a different scandal that was extraordinary at the time but seems smaller compared with the sweeping federal probe that has led to the convictions of more than 30 people. Sexually explicit text messages revealed that Kilpatrick had lied during a trial to cover up an affair with his top aide, Christine Beatty, and to hide the reasons for demoting or firing police officers who suspected wrongdoing at city hall.

 

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"Kilpatrick is not the main culprit of the city's historic bankruptcy, which is the result of larger social and economic forces at work for decades. But his corrupt administration exacerbated the crisis," prosecutors said in a court filing last week.

 

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Thu, 10/10/2013 - 17:25 | 4042842 Kirk2NCC1701
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Ben Dover, MFer!

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 17:29 | 4042849 TeamDepends
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He kwame, he saw, he grabbed the cash.

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 17:34 | 4042858 smlbizman
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next up.....cory booker.....

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 17:36 | 4042867 12ToothAssassin
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Wasnt he also a Mayor Against Illegal Guns?

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 17:38 | 4042877 Chuck Norris
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If you LIKE what Kwame done to Detroit, you'll LOVE what Obama does to Amerika

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 17:41 | 4042881 NotApplicable
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How this differs from any other government entitiy, I have no idea.

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 17:45 | 4042897 Induced Coma
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If only we had more laws to prevent this kind of thing from happening. For the children of course...

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 18:04 | 4042945 g'kar
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It's Bush's fault.

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 18:10 | 4042963 NoDebt
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Keep your ear to the ground about Philadelphia.  Only a matter of time before that heap of "humanity" ends up on the national news.  100% votes for Obama in a lot of precincts last election, hundreds of millions in state and federal aid the last few years and radio shows devoted to telling you exactly how to get your democratic ward leader to elimintate parking tickets for you.  Oh, at the biggest concentration of ambulance-chasing malpractice lawyers anywhere in the country.  The witches brew of corruption.  Detroit's got nothin' on Philly.

 

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 18:15 | 4042976 ZeroPower
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obaMao endorses this thug during a speech: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZNvC_-RW2Q

Pathetic.

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 18:19 | 4042983 nmewn
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If Obama had a son he would look like Kwame.

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 18:24 | 4043008 g'kar
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That would be equal to two Obama sons and a daughter to be named later.

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 19:44 | 4043267 max2205
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Was Corzine the judge?

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 18:37 | 4043079 Teddy Tenpole
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you come up with that all on your own? 

 

if Shemp had a son he would sound like nmewn

 

fixed it :)

 

 

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 18:51 | 4043108 g'kar
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You are an idiot. There fixed it.

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 19:00 | 4043139 Teddy Tenpole
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come on g'kar, you have to at least play by the rules here or else people will think you're the idiot, teehee.

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 19:29 | 4043218 g'kar
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Unfounded comment on someone being humorous. Everyone already knows I'm an idiot. Teeheehee

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 19:35 | 4043243 Teddy Tenpole
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like mom said, you are what you eat.

 

of course these people are criminals.  and yes it's a madhouse.  we need better jokes on here, that's all. 

 

P.S. down arrows for Shemp? Poor Shemp :(

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 19:09 | 4043168 nmewn
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I'm sensing some sort of hostility from you there spud.

Was or was not "your boy" playing the race card & being divisive when he made that statement? Is not "your boy" Obama acting just like Kwame (a convicted criminal now) in unlawfully exempting congresscritters & corporations from established, passed law, just because he thinks he can, thus expecting something in return for those actions?

Just like "his boy" Kwame, the criminal.

Yes or no? ;-)

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 19:18 | 4043194 Teddy Tenpole
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no hostility, just had a bad humor police are inside of my jeans... moment. 

obama sho ain't ma boy.

I am agnostic, and certainly anti-establishemnt.  I like making money and find this ZH site fascinating.  Like i've said, it's a bunch of old warshed up econ profs on here.

 

For what it is worth, I bet Obama gets a bullet in his head.  Some 'patriot' from Georgia, white upper middle class, hahahaha

 

It's too bad that the constitution has been done away with -- some practical ideas in there ;)

 

btw, the world isn't gonna end there girls

 

Peace Out

 

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 19:44 | 4043270 nmewn
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So you pencil in, you like making money.

And you're from the midwest & you're betting some white upper middle class "patriot" from Georgia is gonna put a bullet in his head.

Interesting, don't know how you got there.

The last person to try and have a personal conversation with him was a upper class black woman (surprisingly enough) from Connecticut, with her daddy baby in the car (of all things) who died in a hail of DC cop gunfire.

Good luck wid dat bet, you're gonna need it.

Everythings going along swimmingly, don't you think? ;-)

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 20:00 | 4043306 Teddy Tenpole
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When haven't things been going swimmingly?  LOL

I am trying to understand this place, ZH.

 

It's like every person on here is a savant.  You can quote history but haven't appeared to have learned a damn thing from it.  It's a perverted mirror on here of, in my opinion, the baby boom generation.  It's like reading a real world account of quantum physics.

the doomers meet the boomers in a perfectly collapsed reality... as the observer I am influencing it too -- ha!

I get accused of being angry (sorry for not actually saying sarc.) and dogpiled by 30 angry readers.

 

anyways, I like it here and have made it part of my reality so thank you for caring.

Let's move beyond the truisms here and figure out just what it is that triggers the collapse (and yes, bullish until either just before that moment OR good news)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 21:42 | 4043634 nmewn
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You're not bringing anything to ZH, which is what ZH really is.

"...as the observer I am influencing it too..."

No, you're not, read more, talk less, until you understand what this place is.

There are: doctors, lawyers, economists, politicians, military, spooks, trolls, electricains, plumbers, architects, engineers, mathematicians, professors, artists, musicians, students, farmers, historians, frauds & famous on here...all of it.

All that and more, anonymously...tread softly, a big mouth will get you nowhere.

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 22:10 | 4043707 MontgomeryScott
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T.T. seemed to have been pulled off mid-response by his handlers in Haifa, Alexandria, or wherever.

He was trying to 'feel out' stuff over here, Nmwen. It appears that his handers saw that he was not doing a good job (if you will notice by the final comment, where he inadvertanly leaned on the 'enter' button; hence the 'big empty space' as he was trying to explain to his handler what was going wrong (of course, it wasn't 'HIS fault!').

Well, perhaps (probably, in fact), I am correct.

Any takers on this bet?

Fri, 10/11/2013 - 06:10 | 4044173 nmewn
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I thought the assassination gambit was especially amatuerish on his part. I mean, who runs around saying shit like that unless one is an idiot or a cop/spook...or both...lol.

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 19:21 | 4043205 Debt Slave
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He's not as slick as Corzine.

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 19:58 | 4043298 Nothing but the...
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Too bad for this dude that he wasn't a banker - they steal far more and never get indicted or jailed.

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 18:11 | 4042961 A Lunatic
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Yes he was, Most of the MAIG crowd are known criminals........

Mayors Against Illegal Guns (MAIG

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 17:33 | 4042850 hedgeless_horseman
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He had all the qualifications it takes to be elected these days in the big city.

 

 

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 17:32 | 4042855 SAT 800
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Another fucking sub-normal spear chucker. More racism, we need more racism; lot's more.

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 17:36 | 4042869 smlbizman
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like patrick  ewing said..."we's may make lots of money...but we spend alot too"....

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 17:43 | 4042889 The Gooch
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900 grand?

That ain't but a stone on Barrypimp's chalice.

Also, DALEY.

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 17:58 | 4042925 Arius
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What a Joke...  do sheeple really fell for this stuff .... 840,000 you got to be kidding ... how about the billions, and trillions? 

who are the REAL culprits ... not the Kevin Henry and Janet Yellen of the world but the guys who already skipped town ...

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 17:40 | 4042880 MrTown3
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Is your dick that little? 

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 17:48 | 4042909 Jendrzejczyk
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Watermelon Pope?

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 18:43 | 4043094 it aint easy
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Dang, the melonpopes are at it again!

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 17:59 | 4042934 TeamDepends
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You got it!  LAPD police dogs are racist, you heard it here!

ThinkProgress

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 19:42 | 4043261 max2205
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You had me at Kwame.....

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 18:17 | 4042982 sgt_doom
Thu, 10/10/2013 - 22:14 | 4043715 MontgomeryScott
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I just read this article about 15 minutes ago. Of course, i come over to ZH, and someone has already posted it ahead of me...

This place is pretty good, you know?

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 17:26 | 4042843 prains
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FREE JOHN CORZINE!!!

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 17:28 | 4042844 AL_SWEARENGEN
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A politician not from Chicago going to jail?  Strange...

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 18:59 | 4043130 Ness.
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Mr. (Jesse Jr.) Jackson, 48, received 30 months in prison for spending $750,000 from his campaign on personal items. His wife, Sandi, 49, was sentenced to 12 months in prison for omitting $580,000 in income from the couple’s tax returns while they lived lavishly.

 

Damn Kwame!?!  You got screwed dawg.  Dat shit is racist.  You should call Jesse Jackson Sr. to protest this outrageousness.

 

 

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 23:26 | 4043887 Nick Jihad
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And like Marion Barry, he'll be re-elected the moment he emerges from the slammer. That's why Kwame got 28 years - it's the only way to keep him from pursuing re-election.

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 17:29 | 4042845 rtalcott
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Small time criminal compared to the DC guys and girls....and if he gets 28 years....what should the big guys and girls get?  This guy didn't even pocket a million $$$$.

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 17:36 | 4042871 prains
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on a relative scale he didn't even require shrink wrapped pallets

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 18:26 | 4043034 Urban Redneck
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He's the bitch, not the pimp. All politicians are. They are the I in ROI. You can buy your very own pet congress critter for a million if you chose wisely. Look at Barry's pimps, how much did they pay to put him in office vs. how much did he turn around and funnel to them through the shovel-ready green jobs stimulus (aka the state public union superfluous employee retention scam), the bank bailouts, the auto bailouts... Barry's ass has pulled in TRILLIONS of dollars for his pimps, making him probably the most successful ho in all of bitch history.

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 17:33 | 4042860 squexx
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He's less corrupt than Obama and Eric Holder. Both of them need to be in cells next to his!

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 17:40 | 4042884 wee-weed up
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Hell, Obama will probably pardon him!

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 18:42 | 4043092 Freddie
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Kwame will be Obama's running mate in 2016.

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 19:35 | 4043252 wee-weed up
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Ol' Uncle Joe might say that would be a...

Big Fuckin' Deal!

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 20:03 | 4043317 jimmytorpedo
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Don't forget Obama is half white.

When the state propaganda switches direction, as it is,...

The corrupt (black) politicians will be villified.

The noble poor who need our help, will turn into the "lazy Victorian era" no good bums.

The union bosses will be portrayed as corrupt cigar smoking lay abouts.

The MIC will be shown to squander billions, (vets are already being labelled as domestic terrorists).

Start with the smallest and progress to the biggest.

The Hegelian dialectic is about to be switched through the debt ceiling/gov't shutdown debacle.

Watch for 'hard working single mom's' to be soon labelled as unproductive, chainsmoking, Ebt card lobster eating drains on society who breed for dollars.

TPTB will now look to siphon the few remaining dollars we have to 'make a sacrifice' for the future generations.

Coming soon to a "reality" near you.

 

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 17:35 | 4042868 QQQBall
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LEsson learned. Mayors need to kick up some swag  to the State and Federal levels. 

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 17:39 | 4042875 Winston Churchill
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TBTF learned that from the S & L fiasco.

No contributions means jail time.

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 17:36 | 4042872 Hopium Dealer
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Blacks and politics do not mix and always end horribly.

For an example: See Africa.

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 17:42 | 4042890 MrTown3
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Obama is doing a bang up job for his wallstreet buddies so whatever do you mean?

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 17:48 | 4042904 optimator
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Not "buddies", bosses.  Just like Chicago.

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 17:51 | 4042914 MrTown3
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Then he's every bit as qualified as every president we've had since 1963. 

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 17:45 | 4042898 optimator
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Compare Spitfire ace Ian Smiths' Rhodesia to gang leader Mugabe's Zimbabwe.  Kissinger and his buddies sure did the populace a favor by forcing a "One vote, one man, one time" as the Rhodisians so aptly put it before the election.

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 19:09 | 4043167 Debt Slave
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I was surprised to learn how many are unaware of that.

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 17:37 | 4042874 optimator
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28 years is too much.  Too much money spent keeping him.  Why not a private prision.  Perhaps Russia could do it much cheaper in one of their Siberian Gulags.  Would really save a whole lot of bucks cause I guarantee he wouldn't last 28 years mining and cutting timber.  Bet he'd lose weight though.  Let's try it out.  If it works out perhaps we can start with the Banksters.  No need for a very long term for them. BWWWHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAA.

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 19:45 | 4043274 max2205
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He'll be out in 2 years and get re elected aka Marion Barry

Americans are stupid fuckers

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 17:39 | 4042876 Rehab Willie
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I see a presidential pardon in his future

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 17:40 | 4042878 Rainman
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And just think, Deetroit wasn't even bankrupt when this thug was running the show. Free Kwame ! 

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 17:41 | 4042882 ebworthen
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Reminds me of Marion Barry back in the 80's in D.C.

If I were a Detroit pensioner I'd want him hanged.

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 18:49 | 4043100 Freddie
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I bet a lot of Detroit pensioners voted for him.

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 18:56 | 4043120 knukles
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Some of our relatives live in the Deeetriot 'burbs
They tell us that the suburban demographics are "about f-in' time" with the result.
Most da city dwellers is convinced Kwamie was screwed because he wouldn't carry the man's water.

Imagine that!
Go figure.

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 19:04 | 4043146 Teddy Tenpole
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"our" relatives, hmmmmmmm

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 19:09 | 4043162 Debt Slave
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Oh of course he's a victim...

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 17:40 | 4042883 MrTown3
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Bankers are having a good laugh at this I'm sure...

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 17:41 | 4042885 cabtrom
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Soooo if it's not "real" money that was swindled but what we like to call "fiat" ummm will he get "fiat" time in prison or "real" time???

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 17:41 | 4042888 MrTown3
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Meanwhile Bush is somewhere finger painting and the Clinton foundation still thrives....

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 17:48 | 4042906 prains
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when you're made entirely of coa coa butter and melon balls what else is there to do but paint

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 18:50 | 4043110 Freddie
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Oddly - the Clinton "Foundation" apparently is run about as well as Detroit.    It is an incredible shakedown operation. He must have sold out America to anyone and everyone for later cash.

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 17:45 | 4042902 jmcadg
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Lloyd has just pissed his pants, Jon has split his sides and Jamie has choked on his own vomit.

One of these things is not like the others.

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 17:52 | 4042917 Yen Cross
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shit he's a piker compared to Corzine! Ya gotta steal at least a billion to get a " do not go to jail card".

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 17:53 | 4042919 rustymason
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Looks like someone forgot to send some respect to Wall Street and General Obongo.

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 18:06 | 4042952 W74
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Holder would've gotten him off the hook for a percentage of the cut.

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 17:55 | 4042923 Pairadimes
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Clearly should have gotten into banking.

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 17:57 | 4042924 prains
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Where's the response from a Boehner?

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 17:55 | 4042927 TNTARG
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Some get exit insurances for tens of milions, some go to jail for 840.000...

You've got to know when to hold 'em Know when to fold 'em Know when to walk away Know when to run...

 

 

 

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 18:01 | 4042928 Agent P
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Shouldn't he get credit for time served.....living in Detroit?

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 17:58 | 4042929 22winmag
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Steal $840,000... go to jail.

 

Steal $1,000,000,000 go to Washington.

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 17:58 | 4042932 MrTown3
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Send this guy a poster of Corzine and some lotion...

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 17:59 | 4042933 Seasmoke
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Unlike Obama, Kwame didn't have enough white DNA

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 18:04 | 4042944 W74
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He is no different than a Mobotu or a Mugabbe.

If he had free license to murder he'd have been an Idi Amin too (though Mobotu and Mugabbe engaged in plenty of that as well).

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 18:41 | 4043087 Teddy Tenpole
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get real

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 19:04 | 4043149 Debt Slave
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I thought he was.

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 18:05 | 4042950 blindman
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1n-JsToDZk
.let it rock
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Waterboarding Is A Big Joke At Cheney Roast
A sentimental evening at the Plaza for Cheney, Rumsfeld, Mukasey, and Lieberman. “Really
tasteless,” says a guest.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/bensmith/waterboarding-is-a-big-joke-at-cheney-r...

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 18:09 | 4042960 buzzsaw99
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too bad his name isn't stevie cohen

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 19:28 | 4043230 Teddy Tenpole
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ha ha, ya, too bad

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 18:11 | 4042966 lolmao500
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He was underqualified to run for congress.

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 18:19 | 4042984 surf0766
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Das racist

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 18:25 | 4043016 solgundy
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pure racism....Free Kwame Kilpatrick

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 18:29 | 4043025 it aint easy
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This reminds me of the old saying:

Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you are a god.

 

Steal a million, you get 28 years. Steal trillions, and you're the chairman. Steal it all, and you're doing god's work. (Moloch's that is).

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 18:30 | 4043055 Teddy Tenpole
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Mandatory minimums for black politicians, at least the courts are consistent.

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 18:37 | 4043068 Runs-With_Toast
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They will call this racist. For numerous reasons, many self inflicted, Blacks in America are going thru a cycle of FU I want it. Barry loves them for it.

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 20:36 | 4043424 TrulyStupid
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You seem like a real expert on black America....but  what does white america want? (if different ) or brown america?.. red america? yellow america?

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 18:48 | 4043099 SmittyinLA
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Robert Rizzo, City of Bell manager copped a deal and got 10-12 years depending on his cooperation, he was facing 69 felonies plus hundreds more yet uncovered. http://ktla.com/2013/10/03/ex-bell-city-manager-robert-rizzo-pleads-no-contest-to-69-counts/

 

in his case they didn't look at his poltical donations, or the contracts he awarded, they only looked at his personal pay. 

1.2 sq mi Bell has over 170M in bond debt and an entirely illegal alien illiterate population that pays no net federal or state  taxes, it's essentially a "pet" alien city.  

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 18:49 | 4043103 involuntarilybirthed
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Imagine that. 

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 19:00 | 4043123 NuYawkFrankie
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Curruption & Graft in Murder Capital USSA? 

This is absolutely shocking!!! Someone pass the smelling salts!

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 19:01 | 4043141 Debt Slave
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He'll probably run for Mayor and get re-elected like Marion Barry did. Isn't democracy great?

I sure am glad that folks like Kilpatrick and Barry are running the country, yes sir I sure am.

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 19:06 | 4043150 Teddy Tenpole
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Dude, Marion Barry rocked!!!

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 19:25 | 4043214 Debt Slave
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Oh yeah he likes rocks, yeah.

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 22:31 | 4043765 sethstorm
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Now when does Kevyn Orr get his time for serving his equally corrupt masters in Lansing?

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 22:31 | 4043772 rockface
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KILPATRICK 2016

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 23:22 | 4043881 Hubbs
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Obama will probably pardon his ass.

Fri, 10/11/2013 - 01:58 | 4044055 Yancey Ward
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He was sentenced to 28 years of house arrest in Old Detroit.

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