Detroit mayor pleads guilty to two felonies in connection with obstruction, assault cases. He will also have to serve jail time and pay $1 million restitution.
Kwame Kilpatrick will resign from office, serve four months in jail and pay $1 million in restitution after pleading guilty this morning to two felony obstruction of justice charges. Kilpatrick will also do five years of probation and has agreed to transfer all proceeds from the
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You know April he should have thought of his wife and kids when he was doing his “dirty Deeds”. I am also a Native Detroiter and he has bought nothing to the city but heartache, cost the city millions so yes it is time for Kwame to pay the piper. 1 million dollars is still a slap on the wrist
Now, let’s focus on creating a better and brighter city for our children!
R. Lee Gordon
uniteedesign.com / betterdetroityouth.org
Mr. Kilpatrick,
You made the right decision, now your city can steer their attention to rebuilding. I wish you well in your future endeavors, God bless you and your family.
The only thing this poster can do is shake his head. Kwame Kilpatrick has gone from being a mayor of one largest cities in the U.S., to a convicted felon. He has thrown away his political career–what an idiot!
Now let’s focus on building a better and brighter city for our children!
R. Lee Gordon
uniteedesign.com / betterdetroityouth.org
I HOPE HE GOES TO PRISON,,,,
AND THEY THROW HIM IN A CELL WITH
SOME ARIAN BROTHERS
Sharonda racist doesnt have nothing to do with someone lying under oath, he took an oath to be a lawyer, the sherriff department took an secracy oath and doctors also take an oath. When u go to court it ask do u swear to tell the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth. It does not state Do u promise to tell the truth some of the time when it comes to me, it does not state I promise to the truth when it convient, i will cover my lies with little white lies
Damn that!! If I had to pay that much for a woman and lose my freedom, money, and career, I might as well marry her. This man did not lose his job, he lost his CAREER!! I don’t want a woman worth all that!! Sad part is, if he left his wife TODAY, i’ll bet that other woman wouldn’t have anything to do with him!!
yes i agree that this is a sad, sad day for Detroiters but lets just hope and pray that who ever fills kwame’s shoes does niot repeat history
Sad!
i don’t know anything about this man but all i can say is that his only human and people make bad mistakes and now he has to pay the price for what he did people stop judging others if you don’t know the whole story
good luck to him and his family THE MUSIC SOURCE
I’t has been long over due for the Mayor to have been removed. The mayor has thrown his wait around long enough with his arrogant way as if he can’t be brought to justice so that he can face his wrongful actions. For those who voted for him twice should’ve taken a real good look at the hiphop Mayor . You can take the boy out the street’ but you can’t hire him to do a man’s job he had a second chance to do what he didn’t accoplis the first time and that is fail the people of Detroit,MI.
That is mess up.. I told you the root of all evil.. Pu**y.. Keep your head K…
What happened to the mayor was a sad thing. I think that the public focus on all the wrong things when it comes to running for office in this world. We look at a persons personal life. We all know that business is different then what you may choose to do in your personal time. We as a people need to learn to see that people do have personal lives and we shouldn’t interfere with that life. That is why you never mix business with pleasure. But the people who hurt the most from this whole thing is his family and we all aren’t looking. The news and everybody else was looking for dirt and that is what they got. I will keep the family in pray.
I do not agree with the out come, for he lied, wow, if any man or woman has a husband orwife, and he or she cheats, what would they do, he or she would lie , to save his family, so lying about it , I can see, and where does a personal life begins outside of a job,I think that he should be fined, but not to lose his job, and really not to go to jail, for I live in Buffalo Ny and our governor got caught in a sex scandal and did not have to go to jail, our president got caught having oral sex, I think that the law should overlook painless crimes of passion
The punishment seems a bit much for crime of lying….
You are a damn fool. Work so hard to get where you at and have it taken from you over a woman. Stupid!!!!
There is nothing racist about this. The problem is that the power went to his head and he thought that he wouldn’t get caught. He tried to uset he police to help protect his lies. Furthermore, he let this issue go on to long. I feel for his wife and children as they have to suffer hurt, shame, and embarrassment.
This just goes to show you that it really doesn’t matter what your status is. When you’re representing your country, state, city, family as well as the black community you have to be on point. It really has nothing to do with Race. There was a white state representative in the state of Texas who was caught up in legal issues aka stealing money. Then there are some in the government that are never brought out to the light and put on full blast for theft.