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Ex-Detroit mayor gets job but can't go to training
Kansas City.com ^ | 02.12.09

Posted on 02/13/2009 8:31:26 AM PST by absolootezer0

Former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick has a new job, but it appears he's going to miss the first day of training.

His lawyers on Thursday filed an emergency request seeking approval for him to travel to Dallas for training Friday morning. Wayne County Circuit Judge David Groner said he'll hold a hearing - more than a week later, on Feb. 24.

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Kilpatrick, who was freed Feb. 3, needs to pay off $1 million in restitution to the city of Detroit. He had been hired by Covisint, a subsidiary of Detroit-based software company Compuware Corp., lawyer James Thomas told The Detroit News.

(Excerpt) Read more at kansascity.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: kwame; michigan
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To: grellis

Good bye Karmanos. Hello U of M. And after treatment you can throw in a lunch at Zingerman’s - if you not puking too bad.


21 posted on 02/13/2009 1:13:17 PM PST by Westlander (Unleash the Neutron Bomb)
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To: patton

The Compuware deal was slimy all the way around. I’ll search around for the articles written when it was going down.

Our Channel 7 HATES Kwame. They were screaming about the lack of taxes being paid by Compuware for that building when Detroit was going broke.


22 posted on 02/13/2009 1:13:58 PM PST by netmilsmom (Psalm 109:8 - Let his days be few; and let another take his office)
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To: netmilsmom

Ahhhh. Well, don’t know about the building, but real property (land) in detroit is actually a negative asset - the annual tax liability is more than the value of the land.


23 posted on 02/13/2009 1:16:57 PM PST by patton (SPQA - the last, the least and the lost)
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