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Stripper’s murder may topple Detroit's mayor Kwame Kilpatrick
The Sunday Times ^ | August 31, 2008 | Tony Allen-Mills

Posted on 08/31/2008 8:56:17 PM PDT by george76

Detroit has been shaken by claims of lurid conduct and a cover-up at city hall.

He is an ordinary 15-year-old boy who wants to know what happened to his murdered mother. Yet Jonathan Bond’s painful and protracted quest for justice has plunged him into the heart of an explosive political scandal that has shaken Detroit ...

Bond is the son of Tamara Greene, a statuesque black stripper known as Strawberry, whose murder in 2003 triggered an avalanche of sordid allegations about mayoral misconduct, police cover-ups, aromatic bubble baths, lurid text messages, extramarital affairs and a talking turtle.

The case pits Kwame Kilpatrick, the charismatic 37-year-old mayor of one of America’s most blighted metropolises, against a teenage plaintiff whose white lawyer, Norman Yatooma, has an unusually personal stake in the outcome.

Yatooma told The Sunday Times: “No reasonable compassionate person could look at Jonathan and turn away. This is a kid who had the world in front of him and had everything ripped up beneath him.”

Yatooma knows exactly how that feels. Fifteen years ago his father was murdered in Detroit when he tried to intervene in a carjacking. His killers have never been found and Yatooma has devoted much of his career to helping the children of murdered parents.

At the heart of the Kilpatrick case is a hotly disputed account of a supposed party at Manoogian Mansion, the city-owned home on the Detroit River that is the mayor’s official residence. It was there in late 2002, according to court documents, that Strawberry was hired to perform at a raucous party allegedly attended by Kilpatrick, several police officers and “nude exotic dancers”.

At one point, the court documents allege, Kilpatrick’s wife, Carlita, “arrived at the party unexpectedly and assaulted Tamara Greene and possibly one other dancer”.

(Excerpt) Read more at timesonline.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: cultureofcorruption; detroit; kilpatrick; kwame; kwamekilpatrick; talkingturtles
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1 posted on 08/31/2008 8:56:17 PM PDT by george76
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To: SunkenCiv; Lancey Howard

the Kwamification of Detroit


2 posted on 08/31/2008 8:58:36 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: george76
...But...but...but Sara Palin had a baby only eight months after she was married! </sarc>

Good Lord, strippers and guns and government funds. What is with these people?

3 posted on 08/31/2008 9:00:11 PM PDT by GAB-1955 (Kicking and Screaming into the Kingdom of Heaven!)
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To: george76

May 2007, Barack Obama, who called Kilpatrick a “great mayor” who is doing an “outstanding job,” also said that Kilpatrick “is going to be doing astounding things for many years to come.”

Color me astounded.


4 posted on 08/31/2008 9:04:02 PM PDT by flowerplough (VP choices: If McCain picks a liberal, he's dead. If O'Bama picks anyone, he's overshadowed.)
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To: george76

We hope this nightmare will end sometime this week when the Governor decides whether to boot him from office. If he does not make a plea deal with the Prosecutor before the Governor ousts him he loses his bargaining power. He has made an offer to plead guilty to a couple felony counts, 5 years of probation, loss of law license and can’t run for office for two years. She turned him down and said her deal includes some jail time. I won’t be happy till this thug is behind bars.


5 posted on 08/31/2008 9:04:41 PM PDT by kempster
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To: george76
Has anybody talked to the Duke lacrosse team?

(Do I really need a sarc tag?)

6 posted on 08/31/2008 9:04:50 PM PDT by clintonh8r (Fire mission!)
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To: george76

“This is not the Kwame Kilpatrick I know!”


7 posted on 08/31/2008 9:05:45 PM PDT by clintonh8r (Fire mission!)
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To: george76; MaryFromMichigan
Bond is the son of Tamara Greene, a statuesque black stripper known as Strawberry, whose murder in 2003 triggered an avalanche of sordid allegations about mayoral misconduct, police cover-ups, aromatic bubble baths, lurid text messages, extramarital affairs and a talking turtle.

OK, now I'm interested.

8 posted on 08/31/2008 9:06:20 PM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: GAB-1955

By the way, he is wearing a tether and cannot leave the state. Much to my dismay, a judge ordered that he couldn’t travel to the Democratic National Convention.


9 posted on 08/31/2008 9:06:37 PM PDT by kempster
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To: george76

“Stripper’s murder may topple Detroit’s mayor Kwame Kilpatrick”

“Forget it, Jack — it’s Chinatown...”


10 posted on 08/31/2008 9:07:13 PM PDT by Fishrrman
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To: george76
Bond is the son of Tamara Greene, a statuesque black stripper known as Strawberry, whose murder in 2003 triggered an avalanche of sordid allegations about mayoral misconduct, police cover-ups, aromatic bubble baths, lurid text messages, extramarital affairs and a talking turtle.

WHAT?

11 posted on 08/31/2008 9:08:49 PM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner ("We must not forget that there is a war on and our troops are in the thick of it!"--Duncan Hunter)
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To: george76

I was in Detroit today. I didn’t think it was possible for Detroit to be worse than it was, but it sure has gotten even worse than when I was last in Detroit.


12 posted on 08/31/2008 9:12:36 PM PDT by TWohlford
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To: george76
Good Grief...This is what comes from Chicago's politics! These are the same people trying to get their friend to be the President of the United States!!! GOD Help us!
13 posted on 08/31/2008 9:13:38 PM PDT by txroadkill (Sarah Palin - Vote for her?!? Hell, I want to marry her!)
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To: george76
(yawn...)

Detroit is just another typical Democrat parasite nest. They are littered across the country and account for most of the little blue (Democrat) areas on this map:


14 posted on 08/31/2008 9:14:47 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner

Talking Turtle (last sentence): “Detroit television station WXYZ reported that, the weekend before the story broke, the mayor went to Asheville, N.C., to deliver an inspirational Martin Luther King Day address to a local civic organization. Neither Kilpatrick’s wife nor Beatty have said that they went — but hotel staff told the television station that the mayor and his “girlfriend” enjoyed a two-hour couple’s massage, complete with an “aromatic bubble bath,” champagne and chocolate-covered strawberries. The mayor’s massage tab: $504. The TV station said the woman gave her name as “Carmen Slowski,” an apparent reference to the name of a talking turtle in Comcast cable ads.” http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/15/AR2008021503541_3.html


15 posted on 08/31/2008 9:16:14 PM PDT by PghBaldy (Obama is like a character played by Margaret DuMont.)
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner
a talking turtle.

Maybe it was a guy who shelled out money.

(Or maybe not!)

16 posted on 08/31/2008 9:17:45 PM PDT by Ken H
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To: txroadkill

I agree. A travesty. One of Obama’s biggest supporters is the Hip Hop “artist” Ludicris. He basically told all the white bitches to step aside, its Obama’s turn. “Luda” also wants McCain crippled. Nice culture we live in. Obama actually listens to this piece of scum on his Ipod. He also allows his young daughters to listen to Snoop Dog. Are those Snoop’s love ballads? No wonder we’re going into the sewer.


17 posted on 08/31/2008 9:20:36 PM PDT by donaldo
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To: kempster
Much to my dismay, a judge ordered that he couldn’t travel to the Democratic National Convention.

Yeah, I was really hoping America's "Hip-Hop" mayor would show up in Denver with his diamond earrings, pimp suit and "posse" of bodyguards and sell Obama to white soccer moms across the country.

18 posted on 08/31/2008 9:23:52 PM PDT by Drew68
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To: Alia; girlangler; ~Vor~; Grampa Dave; LucyT

How’s the mayor going to explain Carmen Slowski?

the folks down in Asheville North Carolina are really angry about the hotel tab Kwame and Carman Slowski ran up there.

Kwame was invited to speak at a Martin Luther King Prayer Breakfast for young people in Asheville. His expenses were paid by the MLK organization.

The MLK organization has said that they will charge back to Kwame any expenses not related to his speech.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080131075152AALuFl6


19 posted on 08/31/2008 9:27:35 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: george76

The third-worldification of America continues unabated.


20 posted on 08/31/2008 9:29:20 PM PDT by hometoroost (...the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual. Galileo)
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