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Detroit Mayor Gets 28 Year Sentence For Corruption
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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Ben Dover, MFer!
He kwame, he saw, he grabbed the cash.
next up.....cory booker.....
Wasnt he also a Mayor Against Illegal Guns?
If you LIKE what Kwame done to Detroit, you'll LOVE what Obama does to Amerika
How this differs from any other government entitiy, I have no idea.
If only we had more laws to prevent this kind of thing from happening. For the children of course...
It's Bush's fault.
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.
obaMao endorses this thug during a speech: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZNvC_-RW2Q
Pathetic.
If Obama had a son he would look like Kwame.
That would be equal to two Obama sons and a daughter to be named later.
Was Corzine the judge?
you come up with that all on your own?
if Shemp had a son he would sound like nmewn
fixed it :)
You are an idiot. There fixed it.
come on g'kar, you have to at least play by the rules here or else people will think you're the idiot, teehee.
Unfounded comment on someone being humorous. Everyone already knows I'm an idiot. Teeheehee
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 :(
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? ;-)
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
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? ;-)
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)
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.
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?
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.
He's not as slick as Corzine.
Too bad for this dude that he wasn't a banker - they steal far more and never get indicted or jailed.
Yes he was, Most of the MAIG crowd are known criminals........
Mayors Against Illegal Guns (MAIG
He had all the qualifications it takes to be elected these days in the big city.
Another fucking sub-normal spear chucker. More racism, we need more racism; lot's more.
like patrick ewing said..."we's may make lots of money...but we spend alot too"....
900 grand?
That ain't but a stone on Barrypimp's chalice.
Also, DALEY.
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 ...
Is your dick that little?
Watermelon Pope?
Dang, the melonpopes are at it again!
You got it! LAPD police dogs are racist, you heard it here!
ThinkProgress
You had me at Kwame.....
And speaking of corruption . . . .
http://www.propublica.org/article/ny-fed-fired-examiner-who-took-on-goldman
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?
FREE JOHN CORZINE!!!
A politician not from Chicago going to jail? Strange...
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.
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.
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 $$$$.
on a relative scale he didn't even require shrink wrapped pallets
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.
He's less corrupt than Obama and Eric Holder. Both of them need to be in cells next to his!
Hell, Obama will probably pardon him!
Kwame will be Obama's running mate in 2016.
Ol' Uncle Joe might say that would be a...
Big Fuckin' Deal!
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.
LEsson learned. Mayors need to kick up some swag to the State and Federal levels.
TBTF learned that from the S & L fiasco.
No contributions means jail time.
Blacks and politics do not mix and always end horribly.
For an example: See Africa.
Obama is doing a bang up job for his wallstreet buddies so whatever do you mean?
Not "buddies", bosses. Just like Chicago.
Then he's every bit as qualified as every president we've had since 1963.
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.
I was surprised to learn how many are unaware of that.
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.
He'll be out in 2 years and get re elected aka Marion Barry
Americans are stupid fuckers
I see a presidential pardon in his future
And just think, Deetroit wasn't even bankrupt when this thug was running the show. Free Kwame !
Reminds me of Marion Barry back in the 80's in D.C.
If I were a Detroit pensioner I'd want him hanged.
I bet a lot of Detroit pensioners voted for him.
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.
"our" relatives, hmmmmmmm
Oh of course he's a victim...
Bankers are having a good laugh at this I'm sure...
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???
Meanwhile Bush is somewhere finger painting and the Clinton foundation still thrives....
when you're made entirely of coa coa butter and melon balls what else is there to do but paint
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.
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.
shit he's a piker compared to Corzine! Ya gotta steal at least a billion to get a " do not go to jail card".
Looks like someone forgot to send some respect to Wall Street and General Obongo.
Holder would've gotten him off the hook for a percentage of the cut.
Clearly should have gotten into banking.
Where's the response from a Boehner?
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...
Shouldn't he get credit for time served.....living in Detroit?
Steal $840,000... go to jail.
Steal $1,000,000,000 go to Washington.
Send this guy a poster of Corzine and some lotion...
Unlike Obama, Kwame didn't have enough white DNA
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).
get real
I thought he was.
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...
too bad his name isn't stevie cohen
ha ha, ya, too bad
He was underqualified to run for congress.
Das racist
pure racism....Free Kwame Kilpatrick
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).
Mandatory minimums for black politicians, at least the courts are consistent.
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.
You seem like a real expert on black America....but what does white america want? (if different ) or brown america?.. red america? yellow america?
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.
Imagine that.
Curruption & Graft in Murder Capital USSA?
This is absolutely shocking!!! Someone pass the smelling salts!
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.
Dude, Marion Barry rocked!!!
Oh yeah he likes rocks, yeah.
Now when does Kevyn Orr get his time for serving his equally corrupt masters in Lansing?
KILPATRICK 2016
Obama will probably pardon his ass.
He was sentenced to 28 years of house arrest in Old Detroit.