Posted on 08/31/2008 8:56:17 PM PDT by george76
Detroit has been shaken by claims of lurid conduct and a cover-up at city hall.
He is an ordinary 15-year-old boy who wants to know what happened to his murdered mother. Yet Jonathan Bonds painful and protracted quest for justice has plunged him into the heart of an explosive political scandal that has shaken Detroit ...
Bond is the son of Tamara Greene, a statuesque black stripper known as Strawberry, whose murder in 2003 triggered an avalanche of sordid allegations about mayoral misconduct, police cover-ups, aromatic bubble baths, lurid text messages, extramarital affairs and a talking turtle.
The case pits Kwame Kilpatrick, the charismatic 37-year-old mayor of one of Americas most blighted metropolises, against a teenage plaintiff whose white lawyer, Norman Yatooma, has an unusually personal stake in the outcome.
Yatooma told The Sunday Times: No reasonable compassionate person could look at Jonathan and turn away. This is a kid who had the world in front of him and had everything ripped up beneath him.
Yatooma knows exactly how that feels. Fifteen years ago his father was murdered in Detroit when he tried to intervene in a carjacking. His killers have never been found and Yatooma has devoted much of his career to helping the children of murdered parents.
At the heart of the Kilpatrick case is a hotly disputed account of a supposed party at Manoogian Mansion, the city-owned home on the Detroit River that is the mayors official residence. It was there in late 2002, according to court documents, that Strawberry was hired to perform at a raucous party allegedly attended by Kilpatrick, several police officers and nude exotic dancers.
At one point, the court documents allege, Kilpatricks wife, Carlita, arrived at the party unexpectedly and assaulted Tamara Greene and possibly one other dancer.
(Excerpt) Read more at timesonline.co.uk ...
“The MLK organization has said that they will charge back to Kwame any expenses not related to his speech.”
They’d better’d hurry, supposedly a plea agreement is in the works that might include jail time, heavy duty money outflows, loss of law license, and a few other reasons not to pay bills.
This is before anyone revives the dead stripper investigation, or the FBI releases details on the half-dozen investigation they’ve got going in Detroit.
LOL
BTW, ever wondered what a turtle would say if it DID talk?
''Boy, this grass is so high it's gonna take me all day to get to...now, where the heck was I going?'' ''Oh, shoot, I knew I shouldn't walk on that black stuff. Nice breeze and everything, but it's (splat)...''
And what stories that turtle could tell...
Nicko the Talking Turtle
Word to the McCain/Palin campaign- feature Mayor Kilpatrick and Governor Granholm in your negative TV ads.
Decent article here and lots of good photos:
Why John McCains beauty queen running mate has a grizzly bear on her office wall
Say what????
"You one sexy bitch, baby."
“Charismatic”????!!!
Anyone with half a brain could have seen this
from Day One!
Detroit is done.
Detroit and Washington DC have proven they cannot self-govern. The Feds need to take over both municipalities to ensure equal protection for all citizens. This sort of 3rd world corrupt government is what you’d expect from the UN and African nations.
A talking turtle?..
And would this "talking turtle" be a "post turtle" by any chance?
Seems I read a funny story a week or so ago about an old Texas farmer guy who made the comment the Obambi reminded him of a "post turtle."
Could our golden boy be one and the same "talking turtle?"
Please ping me with the outcome of the action against this criminal. Thanks.
Kwame Kilpatrick is the perfect one that most represents Detroit.
Well at as to Washngton, D.C. there is precedent. Washington has had and lost home rule a number of times, primarily due to corruption (surprise).
Fear the turtle!
I read through the thread, and I thank you for pinging me to this sorry tale of conduct by Democrat Kwame.
A $500 massage? Who is Carman Slowski?
I say good luck to the MLK Organization on getting ANY money back out of Kwame's abuse of privilege. I'm sorry the MLK organization was taken so badly advantage of.
A P.S.: sigh.. egads, back where I'm from, the San Francisco Bay Area, "talking turtles" is a sexual "code" term. Egads. Uh, I'll try to keep it clean in explaining, but it is used by straight and homosexual alike.
Nice touch. They always seem to get that barb in there, no matter what they're talking about, LOL!
She may become the first female President (choke on it Hillary!), but it won't be due to the death of John McCain; she'll earn it on her own merits, just like everything else she's done in her life to date. :)
These people are animals. And more proof that the ‘Rats don’t care about life at ALL; whether it’s an unborn baby, or a grown woman. Both are inconsequential.
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