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.
Someone should run up the Virginia state flag over Detroit city hall.
Latest GM rebate-with each new car; a free house in Detroit.
Latest GM rebate-with each new car; a free house in Detroit.
Kwame Kilpatrick is a superdelegate not likely to vote for Hillary. The timing to get rid of this guy is not an accident. This and Spitzer serve as Hillary’s warning to others.
It looks like they're doing it! Oh how those cockroaches and demoRATs scurry, when a bright spotlight shines in their dark hiding place.
Da Pimp and his Ho.
If he and Spitzer were Republicans, there would be 24/7 coverage of “can the GOP survive?” But since they’re dems, it’s just business as usual - sex scandels, misuse of public funds, cronyism, etc. etc.
Gov Granholm is term limited is she not? I suppose the Dems will be pushing Kilpatrick as her successor soon. Makes perfect sense.
Nice suit, I be sayin...
“I did not have text with that woman, Ms. Beatty ...”
And we will still be stuck with The Hildebeast.
Ahhh, thats his wife.
Maybe I just want to believe there might be some hope, but I didn’t see or hear political motives with this Detroit D.A. I was very much impressed, in fact, that there weren’t any. If she was being straight with the public in her presentation, I’d love to see as many public officials like her as possible.
Culture of Corruption. Oh, that’s right, it’s expected of that party.
The Mayor is scheduled to hold a news conference momentarily. The networks are standing by to bring it live.
The prosecutor was very professional in her news conference detailing the Counts agains the mayor.
Oh, that’s rich...
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