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Breaking: Ex-Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick indicted on federal fraud, tax charges
MLIVE ^ | 06/23/10 | Various

Posted on 06/23/2010 1:45:24 PM PDT by Kieri

Ex-Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick has been indicted on federal fraud and tax charges.

Federal prosecutors say the alleged scheme is related to the Kilpatrick Civic Fund, a tax-exempt fund that was supposed to pay for voter education and other purposes.

Instead, Kilpatrick is accused of using it as a slush fund to take cash payments for himself, friends and relatives.

In an indictment filed Wednesday, he's accused of failing to report at least $640,000 in taxable income between 2003 and 2008, which includes money, private jet flights and personal expenses paid by the civic fund.

The government says he used the money to pay for yoga and golf lessons, golf clubs, summer camp for his kids, personal travel, moving expenses, as well as "counter-surveillance and anti-bugging equipment."

He'll be arraigned July 13.

Wayne County Circuit Court Judge David Groner sentenced Kilpatrick to up to five years in prison on May 25 for violating probation stemming from his conviction for lying under oath about an affair with his chief of staff. The 2008 criminal case forced him out of office.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: braking; corruptdems; crook; cultureofcorruption; democrats; detroit; fraud; kwamekilpatrick; taxes
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It's about time!
1 posted on 06/23/2010 1:45:26 PM PDT by Kieri
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To: Kieri

Notice... they didn’t mention that Kilpatrick is a DummyCRAP.


2 posted on 06/23/2010 1:47:33 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country! What else needs said?)
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To: Kieri

Dumb, Democrat, and a crook.


3 posted on 06/23/2010 1:47:47 PM PDT by bmwcyle (Communism has arrived in Washington)
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To: Kieri

His defense: racist personal attack by an out of control government agency. Take bets?


4 posted on 06/23/2010 1:48:04 PM PDT by macquire
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To: SandRat

I could be generous and say it’s because there hasn’t been a republican in office in Detroit for over 40 years...

...but I know better.


5 posted on 06/23/2010 1:48:59 PM PDT by Kieri (The Conservatrarian)
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To: bmwcyle

“Dumb, Democrat, and a crook.”

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Why the redundancies?


6 posted on 06/23/2010 1:49:47 PM PDT by EyeGuy
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To: Kieri

So where is the indictment of Rangle, Frank, Dodd, etc?


7 posted on 06/23/2010 1:50:20 PM PDT by Islander7 (If you want to anger conservatives, lie to them. If you want to anger liberals, tell them the truth.)
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To: Kieri

So when are they going to look into Annenberg?


8 posted on 06/23/2010 1:52:13 PM PDT by marron
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To: Kieri

in 5...4...3...2...

9 posted on 06/23/2010 1:54:47 PM PDT by IllumiNaughtyByNature (3(0|\|0/\/\1($ 101: (4P174L1$/\/\ R3QU1r3$ (4P174L. Could it be any more simple?)
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To: Kieri

Speaking of taxes, didn’t MO say they just paid off their college loans but it wasn’t listed on their income tax?


10 posted on 06/23/2010 1:56:00 PM PDT by bgill (how could a young man born here in Kenya, who is not even a native American, become the POTUS)
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To: Islander7
So where is the indictment of Rangle, Frank, Dodd, etc?

Rangel was told to forget about it,

Dodd got a sweetheart deal on his,

and Barney won't even get a swat on the Fannie.

11 posted on 06/23/2010 1:57:10 PM PDT by digger48
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To: Kieri

This is good news but I’ll save my elation until and if the day comes when there is an indictment of one of the biggest tax-cheats in the history of government, Charlie Rangel (D) NY.


12 posted on 06/23/2010 1:57:15 PM PDT by South40 ("Islam has a long tradition of tolerance." ~Hussein Obama, June 4, 2009, Cairo, Egypt)
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To: Kieri

Hey look at that. He’s not a member of a political party, or at least that’s what the news story seems to indicate.


13 posted on 06/23/2010 1:59:01 PM PDT by ElkGroveDan (Now can we forget about that old rum-runner Joe Kennedy and his progeny of philandering drunks?)
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To: EyeGuy

Because bmwcyle is from the Department of Redundancy Department!


14 posted on 06/23/2010 2:00:30 PM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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To: Kieri

>scheme is related to the Kilpatrick Civic Fund, a tax-exempt fund that was supposed to pay for voter education...

This is so disgusting of these racist scumbags it’s impossible to laugh at them.


15 posted on 06/23/2010 2:04:59 PM PDT by soycd
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To: Kieri
(D)


Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

16 posted on 06/23/2010 2:05:44 PM PDT by The Comedian (Evil can only succeed if good men don't point at it and laugh.)
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To: Kieri

Innocent!

Now move along, nothing more to see here...!

17 posted on 06/23/2010 2:11:59 PM PDT by Las Vegas Dave (To anger a Conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a Liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: The Comedian

Post of the day!


18 posted on 06/23/2010 2:17:25 PM PDT by BenKenobi (I want to hear more about Sam! Samwise the stouthearted!)
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To: Kieri

Enjoy prison scumbag.


19 posted on 06/23/2010 2:18:16 PM PDT by Gabrial (The Whitehouse Nightmare will continue as long as the Nightmare is in the Whitehouse)
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To: Kieri

Couldn’t happen to a nicer big black bumbling buffoon.


20 posted on 06/23/2010 2:20:11 PM PDT by ZX12R (IMPEACH OBAMA NOW!)
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