Slow to pay a $1 million restitution to the city of Detroit as part of a plea deal , Kwame Kilpatrick, the disgraced former mayor of the Motor City, was ordered to pay more than $300,000  to the city by April or go back behind bars.

Kilpatrick was found  guilty of  perjury after he lied in a 2008 civil lawsuit filed by three Detroit police officers who were fired without cause. As part of a deal with prosecutors to limit his prison sentence, Kilpatrick agreed to pay $1 million in restitution  to the city who had to pay more than $9 million to the fired cops.    Kilpatrick  was subsequently removed from office after his admission of guilt.

From WXYZ.com

Wayne County Circuit Judge David Groner Wednesday modified Kwame Kilpatrick’s probation, ordering him to pay the City of Detroit more than $300,000 dollars over the next 90 days.

Groner pulled no punches as he delivered his ruling, calling Kilpatrick a “liar” and saying that he purposely concealed gifts and loans in an effort to reduce his monthly restitution payments to the City of Detroit.

“You have not been credible in this courtroom and you, again, have not been honest to the City of Detroit,” he said.

Groner ruled that Kilpatrick must pay $79,011 to the court within 30 days. Groner said the money would account for funds given to Carlita Kilpatrick, money the family received from the Kilpatrick Civic fund and Kilpatrick’s tax return.

In addition, Groner ruled that Kilpatrick must pay $240,000—the loan he received from several Detroit business luminaries— within 90 days.

He also transferred Kilpatrick’s probation back to the Michigan Department of Corrections.

Kwame Kilpatrick, the disgraced former mayor of Detroit, was back in a Michigan court room Monday for a hearing to determine if he has violated his parole by not reporting all of his earnings.

Kilpatrick must pay the city of Detroit a $1 million restitution as part of a 2008 plea agreement in which he admitted to perjury, misconduct and obstruction of justice for his role in the firing of three Detroit police officers.

After agreeing to pay $6,000 a month towards his restitution Kilpatrick and his attorney are trying to convince a judge that his payment of $6,000 a month is too high.

Prosecutors disagree. Especially after Kilpatrick and his wife spent 15,000 on a plastic surgery procedure.  View the video below.

Kwame Kilpatrick, the former mayor of Detroit who was removed from office and convicted of perjury, gave his first media interview in more than a year to reporters from The Final Call, the weekly news magazine of the Nation of Islam.

The interview covered various subjects ranging from the future of Detroit to national politics. However, Kilpatrick’s comments about his former chief of staff and lover Christine Beatty are creating the most buzz.

Kilpatrick and Beatty had a highly publicized affair. Beatty was also convicted of perjury for not admitting to the affair during a whistleblower lawsuit in 2008.

Below is an excerpt of the interview.  Click here to view video of the interview.

FCN: I’m glad you mentioned your family. Clearly, they have stood by you and your wife has demonstrated tremendous strength as well as your children with you being in such a public spot. As it relates to Ms. Christine Beatty, the sister who was in the news related to her relationship with you, do you have contact with her, do you all talk?

KK: I’ll simply say, I have talked to her since all of this stuff has happened. I try to make sure that she understands that I still care about her very deeply and I simply back up and say first that, a lot of times when women get caught in a situation like that, they are perceived as a wh— and sorry and I just think that is so unfair. It takes two to tango they say but I think even other than that she is a very good person. She is incredibly brilliant, a 4.0 student, masters (degree) and we made some bad decisions and we are living with the consequences of those decisions. I respect her tremendously and love her and wish her the best. That has been an incredible situation, somebody has been in your life since ninth grade, this is my friend, this wasn’t a person that just showed up. Ninth grade and now out of your life and having her own and you have to really figure out how to move forward with your wife and children. So I wish her the best. I have tried to keep tabs and make sure that she is doing all right. But as far as the kind of interaction we had, we will never really have again.

Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, who has resurfaced as a salesman for a software and information technology firm in Texas, is hoping to convince a judge that SkyTel should cough up $100 million in damages for leaking embarrassing text-messages that ultimately cost him his job. Read more.

Did dethroned Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick violate local laws by tapping $1 million from his political war chest to pay for his mountainous legal bills? That’s the question being pressed by one of the ex-mayor’s leading critics, retired Wayne State University law Professor Maurice Kelman. Kelman has blasted Kilpatrick firstly for missing his filing deadline by two months, and secondly for using the money to defend himself in the infamous sex text-messaging scandal with his then-chief of staff, Christine Beatty. Ultimately, the two married city officials were sentenced to 120 days in jail for lying in court to hide their affair. James Thomas, Kilpatrick’s lead attorney, defended tapping the campaign account. A spokeswoman for Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy declined comment on the legality of tapping the fund but said prosecutors will look at the $215,000 that Kilpatrick said he had left in the fund at the end of 2008. “We’re interested in any money that can go toward the mayor’s restitution,” she said. The former mayor owes the City of Detroit more than $900,000 in restitution as part of the deal he reached last year when he pleaded guilty to two counts of obstruction of justice stemming from the text message scandal.

Ousted Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, recently out of jail after serving 100 days for perjury, has missed deadlines to report on the more than $1 million he had on hand at the end of 2007, according to The Detroit Free Press. “What he has to gain by not filing is continuing to conceal how he’s spent his money,” Maurice Kelman, a retired law professor from Wayne State University, told the newspaper. Read more.

It’s not likely that the release of the saucy emails between former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and onetime chief of staff Christine Beatty will do much to help the disgraced city leader rekindle his relationship with his longtime wife in their new Texas digs. Kilpatrick, fresh out of jail and now living in a Dallas suburb with his family, had hoped to keep the steamy sex-texts from the public airwaves. Fat chance. Late last week, the back-and-forth freak show, first obtained by The Detroit Free Press, helped cast the so-called “Hip-Hop Mayor” as “Kinky Kilpatrick.” Read some of the steamy texts.

In this particular case, the judge ain’t digging the player or the game. The player: one disgraced ex-mayor. The game: the system that would award that disgraced ex-mayor substantially more money and perks following his conviction for betraying the public’s trust than he earned while in public office. The person in question is Kwame Kilpatrick, fresh out of jail after a 100-day term for lying to a jury about his seedy affair with former Chief of Staff Christine Beatty. Read the rest.

Lawyers for Kwame Kilpatrick, Detroit’s disgraced former mayor, sent a letter to SkyTel Inc. on Monday demanding $100 million and accusing the communications provider of violating Kilpatrick’s privacy by releasing the scandalous “sex-text” messages that ultimately ruined his career. More here.

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It’s been a little over a week since former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was released from jail after serving 99 days for perjury, but he might have already landed a new gig. A Texas affiliate of Compuware Corp., a Detroit-based company, is set to name Kilpatrick to a new post soon, reports The Detroit Free Press. Read on.