Posted on 10/14/2007 6:01:03 AM PDT by Westlander
DETROIT (AP) - The city has paid $575,000 to outside lawyers for defending Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick in a case in which a jury awarded $6.5 million to two ex-police officers who said they were dismissed for probing misconduct claims against mayoral bodyguards, records show.
Brown claims he was fired in 2003 because he was looking into allegations of drunken-driving accidents, falsified overtime records and a possible cover-up of incidents involving members of the security unit. He said he was investigating claims from two former mayoral bodyguards that the mayor used his bodyguards to facilitate and cover up extramarital affairs.
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The city has paid $575,000 to outside lawyers for defending Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick in a case in which a jury awarded $6.5 million to two ex-police officers who said they were dismissed for probing misconduct claims against mayoral bodyguards, records show. Brown claims he was fired in 2003 because he was looking into allegations of drunken-driving accidents, falsified overtime records and a possible cover-up of incidents involving members of the security unit. He said he was investigating claims from two former mayoral bodyguards that the mayor used his bodyguards to facilitate and cover up extramarital affairs.To be fair, Kwame's role model was Martin Luther King.
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