Posted on 03/20/2008 12:38:10 AM PDT by Azzurri
Information uncovered by Chief Investigator Steve Wilson is raising new questions about who's paying Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's soaring legal and PR bills -- and recent trips on expensive private jets.
Wilson: It was seven years ago that the city of Detroit wrote into its charter and city law an Ethics Code for city officials. Its purpose is to see that they avoid conduct that has even the *appearance* of being improper. Even so, as we first told you earlier, Mayor Kilpatrick and the First Family are getting big personal benefits and refusing to disclose who’s really paying the bill and what the givers are getting in return.
Kilpatrick: My private attorneys that I’m using now? I’m paying for. Wilson: You’re paying for the private attorneys? Not the taxpayers? Kilpatrick: Not the taxpayers, yes, thank you.
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Wilson: Who provided the private jets for your Florida vacation travel? Mayor: Oh my goodness. Anybody else?
The mayor seemed shocked I knew. Wilson: Sir, who provided the jets? Why won’t you answer?
The trip we’re asking about was arranged by Pentastar Aviation owned by Edsel Ford who previously sought to operate at City Airport. A source has told us these flights were not paid by the mayor or the city, so why might such an expensive gift be given, you ask?
(Excerpt) Read more at wxyz.com ...
Another African-American politician form the Wright wing of the spectrum.
Bump for later.
This guy is as fat dumb sleazy and debauched as your average African dictator
That will be the start of the real fireworks if that gets going for real!
The last few days, some of the things discussed, I heard the word RICO used, FBI handing out business cards in Detroit, and corruption mentioned with kickbacks with one firm. All rumors? yes. But sometimes were there is smoke there is fire.
agreed & yet the people elected him.
God help America.
Exactly. King Kwame is a 3rd world politician in what is quite possibly America's worst city, in the most (D)epressed state in the nation. Welcome to our world.
[agreed & yet the people elected him.
God help America.]
The communist left of America loves morally corrupt men and could care less that they are theives and liars. It is a reason that I have come to hate the cities run by democrats and the foolish people who elect them and the rinos are not much better.
Come September, the post convention riots will result in a Detroit conflagration.
Houses like that will be burned in scores.
He’s protected. He will go on to be elected to Congress.
On WJR this morning, I think I heard his legal bills have totaled over $800,000 to date! That’s a hefty bill, but if you are trying to avoid 15 years in prison, I guess it’s worth it.
$800K? That would feed, house, and clothe a lot of poor people. How awful these evil Republicans are in spending taxpayer money on themselves and letting the poor rot. Oh wait, what is his party again?
How vile.
Meet King Kwame, the next governor of the socialist/welfare state of Michigan, one in a long line of Marxist thieves who will destroy the former great state of Michigan.
Curious that the Ford family would underwrite his activities.
.....Malik Shabazz, leader of the New Black Panthers in Detroit, said the meeting was not related to news that Worthy had made up her mind.
“We went to pray,” Shabazz said. “Our mayor is a praying mayor. He believes in the power of prayer, and so do we.....
Maybe the Black Panthers or Nation of Islam are paying his bills?
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