Posted on 03/24/2008 8:42:52 AM PDT by NYC Republican
Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, a one-time rising star and as Detroit's youngest elected leader, was charged Monday with perjury and other counts after sexually explicit text messages surfaced that appear to contradict his sworn denials of an affair with a top aide. Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy also charged the popular yet polarizing 37-year-old mayor with obstruction of justice and misconduct in office.
Former Chief of Staff Christine Beatty, 37, who also denied under oath that she and Kilpatrick shared a romantic relationship in 2002 and was charged with perjury and obstruction of justice.
In all, Worthy authorized a 12-count criminal information.
"This case was about as far from being a private matter as one can get. Honesty and integrity in the justice system is everything. That is what this case is about," Worthy said at a news conference.
"Just when did honesty and integrity, truth and honor become traits to be mocked, downplayed, ignored, laughed at or excuses made for them? When did telling the truth become a supporting player to everything else?"
A perjury conviction could bring up to 15 years' imprisonment and force Kilpatrick to relinquish the mayor's office.
Worthy has said she and her staff have pored over more than 40,000 pages of documents since January, when the Detroit Free Press published excerpts of sexually explicit text messages sent to Beatty's city-issued pager in 2002 and 2003.
The messages contradict statements Kilpatrick and Beatty gave under oath during a whistleblowers' trial last summer when each denied a romantic relationship.
Don’t these Democrats have anything to do ?
I read and reread the article and for the life of me I cannot find where it points out he is a DEMOCRAT....
Typical.
It doesn’t... More of the same lib bias...
Democrat that even spoke at the Democrat National Convention in ‘04.
At least if they’re busy texting and screwing, they aren’t doing any harm thru bad legislation.......I say put all politicians on viagra and make all hotels free for them. All of our problems solved..............
The media will quickly gloss over it.
Pretty much the same thing Clinton did, which goes to show that there is a separate judicial system for the very powerful.
Well the PC rule is that you don’t identify Democratics when in trouble as such as one would a Republican. But, by ommission they do identify them.
Stagmire !
Alternate headline if he were a republican:
Republican Kilpatrick (R) brings shame, sense of loss to GOP.
Yea, they’re too busy playing the 4,000 number.
The Clinton legacy.
The media will quickly gloss over it? Heck, they’ll need Polyurethane for this!...............
What else would a mayor of Detriot be?
So what? The Democrats have already proclaimed that perjury is not a crime and that everybody does it.
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