Posted on 10/03/2013 2:14:11 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick should be sent to prison for at least 28 years for astonishing corruption that enriched him and his family while a desperate city slid toward financial collapse, prosecutors said Thursday.
The 51-page filing came a week before Kilpatrick is to be sentenced in federal court for two dozen crimes, including racketeering conspiracy, fraud and tax offenses. The government presented a scathing summary of evidence from his months-long trial and said the corruption tops all recent cases prosecuted elsewhere in federal court.
Detroit desperately needed resolute leadership. Instead it got a mayor looking to cash in on his office through graft, extortion and self-dealing, the U.S. Attorneys Office said Thursday.
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If Soetoro had a son..........(AWW, you know)
The federal judge who acquitted the Hutaree is a black female Clinton appointee.
Thanks Olog-hai.
Yeah Matty and Kwame were also caught in a scam to seize control of the tunnel as well.
On the other hand, they will be probably be joining each other later in Hell..
It's Detroit right - they helped invent 'the Chicago Way'...
Anyone surprised?
LOL-—history tells us freed slaves were given the last name of their owners.
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