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.
This might qualify Kwame for that VP slot.
Is that a mustache above her lip?
To me, the gist of the attorney's argument was the legality of the obtaining of the text messages that prove Kwami and his ho were doing the nasty.
In other words, everything would be fine and dandy had no one ever gotten copies of the incriminating proof........and since they were illegaly obtained, no nasty occured and no perjury was committed......
I've been tuned to WJR all afternoon and am truly amazed at the callers who are supporting Kwami..........
It’s not Detroit, but Wayne county which encompasses a huge area of suburban Detroit. The jury will be seated from the voting rolls of Wayne county, not just Detroit. Kwame has committed possibly a fatal error in that the one thing blacks (yes, I’m saying “typical black people”) seem to hate above all else is being disrespected by anyone. They are feeling extremely disrespected by Kwame right now. It’s okay when they felt he was disrespecting the suburbs, but now that the tables have turned and he is taking them for literally millions and millions of dollars, their attitudes are rapidly changing. The problem that exists in Detroit is that even though the people are outraged and want him out, everyone is afraid of Kwame and his band of personal thugs, the Executive Protection Unit (EPU). They’re like a Gestapo, or SS. They are part of the Detroit Police Department. There was a dancer in 2003 who was beaten with a bat by the First Lady, and when she filed a police report after she got out of the hospital, she ended up the victim of a drive by shooting, with three bullets likely from a DPS issued 40 mm Glock.
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