BlackPoliticsontheWeb.com (Free subscription) | 08/14/2008
AP — Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick is being arraigned Thursday morning on perjury charges, the first step in a new fight over public disclosure of hundreds of text messages. Kilpatrick and ex-chief of staff Christine Beatty chose to send their criminal cases directly to Wayne County Circuit Court. The dispute over their text messages moves away from 36th [...]
Indybay newswire (Free subscription) | 08/13/2008
Wednesday, August 13, 2008 : There is increasing political pressure on Detroits Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick to resign, as the mounting scandals and legal problems surrounding him have become an embarrassment for the Democratic Party establishment, both in the city and nationally.
Stereohyped (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008
Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick is an idiot. This much we’ve known for quite a while. But as time passes, the sheer magnitude of his idiocy seems to grow exponentially. After being charged with 8 felonies related to lies he told under oath about his affair with his Chief of Staff, Christine Beatty, Kilpatrick has violated [...]
Plastic: Most Recent (Free subscription) | 08/11/2008
Plastic::Politics::Crime: 36th District Judge Ronald Giles revoked the bond of Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and sent him to jail for violating the conditions of his bond in connection with his pending criminal prosecution for perjury and obstruction of justice.
politicalbetting.com (Free subscription) | 08/09/2008
What might this mean for Michigan and the Presidential campaigns? Thirty-four-years-and-a-day since Richard Nixon resigned the presidency, the most serious political scandal of 2008 is reaching its peak, and rather refreshingly it doesn’t directly involve either candidate in the White House race. Kwame Kilpatrick, the Mayor of Detroit, is tonight sat in jail, having breached his [...]
The Real Barack Obama (Free subscription) | 08/08/2008
Kilpatrick, Obama, May 7, 2007 (AP) On March 24, 2008, RezkoWatch wrote about Obama superdelegate, Detroit mayor, Kwame Kilpatrick, who had been indicted for perjury, obstruction, conspiracy and misconduct (article follows). On August 7, 2008, Kilpatrick was put in jail. Gateway Pundit has the details and more. Also see Allahpundit at Hot Air: Kilpatrick’s fate? Under the [...]
The Post Chronicle (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008
Detroit's mayor was ordered jailed on Thursday for violating travel restrictions imposed on him while he awaits trial on perjury and official misconduct charges....
My Urban Report (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008
by A.man.I How does it take a person to go from Mayor to jail inmate? Ask Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick… Soon to be former mayor, I’m sure. Kilpatrick is awaiting trial on perjury charges, and violated his bond by leaving the country. Now he’s been ordered to the slammer. from NPR Kilpatrick apologized to the [...]
Skeptical Brotha (Free subscription) | 08/06/2008
Detroit’s infamous Kilpatrick Dynasty faces a test today as Michigan voters go to the polls to select nominees for the fall general election. Amid the light turnout, apathy and summer malaise, the Dynasty’s continued existence as a national power remains unclear. A poll last week by the Detroit News indicates Mrs. Kilpatrick, the Mayor’s [...]
Today's Tribune-Review (Free subscription) | 07/31/2008
Plum council has given the owners of the former Logan's Ferry Elementary School building 90 days to make necessary repairs or the building will be demolished. As of the middle of July, no work had been done.
BlackPoliticsontheWeb.com (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
COREY WILLIAMS, Associated Press - Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick is now charged with exchanging romantic text messages with additional women in the scandal that has him fighting allegations that he lied under oath about an intimate relationship with his ex-top aide. An investigator’s report says the Wayne County prosecutor’s office has determined that Kilpatrick sent and [...]
News: Moldova.org: Politics (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
A Michigan state judge Monday ordered hundreds of previously unseen text messages written by the embattled mayor of Detroit to be released.Attorneys for Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and his former chief of staff, Christine Beatty, were fighting to keep the text messages, written on city-issued pagers, from being introduced into evidence and released to the public during their corruption case. They...
BlackPoliticsontheWeb.com (Free subscription) | 07/12/2008
Associated Press - The criminal case against Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and his former top aide is expected to cost $200,000 this year to prosecute and could cost an additional $1 million next fiscal year. The Detroit Free Press reports Saturday that Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy recently gave the estimate to county commissioners. Worthy says the [...]
BlackPoliticsontheWeb.com (Free subscription) | 07/12/2008
KEN THOMAS, Associated Press - A text-messaging scandal involving Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick faces its first test at the ballot box — a congressional primary involving his mother, U.S. Rep. Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick. But the Detroit congresswoman, first elected in 1996, remains confident she’ll weather the challenge from two Democratic opponents. She has the most intriguing [...]
The Post Chronicle (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
Expanded perjury charges against Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick may hinge on a few words in last summer's police whistle-blower trial,...
