Maybe 0 can pardon him.
“Within a couple of weeks, Kilpatrick was hired by Covisint, a Texas subsidiary of Compuware, headquartered in Detroit. The CEO of Compuware, Peter Karmanos, Jr. was one of the parties who loaned large sums of money to Kilpatrick in late 2008”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwame_Kilpatrick#Funneling_of_state_grant_money_to_wife
Any time I read or hear anything about giving a break to political scumbags the first thing to go through my head is “huh, so y’all are named in the Lolita Express emails too?”
Such politically suicidal actions have to be blackmail driven.
Maybe they could let him be Equipment Manager for his old HS football team.