Posted on 10/10/2013 10:58:13 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
Edited on 10/10/2013 11:10:06 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was sentenced Thursday to 28 years in prison for corruption, the apparent last step after a series of scandals destroyed his political career and helped steer a crisis-laden city even deeper into trouble.
Kilpatrick, who served as mayor from 2002 until fall 2008, fattened his bank account by tens of thousands of dollars, traveled the country in private planes and even strong-armed his campaign fundraiser for stacks of cash hidden in her bra, according to evidence at trial.
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Corruption in Detroit?
Hell, next thing you know they’ll tell us there’s gambling at Rick’s Cafe.....
Bet if he ran again, he'd win.
Wow! They actually mentioned in the second to the last paragraph of the article that Kilpatrick is a Democrat.
27 years redacted for good behavior.
he’ll serve until about 1/18/17 when the spite house will issue a pardon.
He’s a Tea Party guy, right??
/s
King Barry is doing the same thing in DC that Kwame the K did in Detroit!!!! Wonder how many years he will get????
(sarc)
He was actually a Hillary supporter, he and his mother Carolyn Cheeks Killpatrick. Could be why he got no help.
That was my forst thought too. I am sure he will run for mayor of Detroit again, and he will win too.
Not that I’m listening.
That’s certainly one avenue to Hussein’s goal of “redistribution”, and one which has been honed to perfection for decades, except when the players are so unutterably stupid they beg to get caught. The others are merely Sharpton/Jackson Sr level stupid. Jackson Jr didn’t pay attention to his lessons, apparently.
That said, I can understand why blacks might feel it is wrong for Kwame to get 28 years for Detroit corruption.
I could talk for weeks about Chicago corruption, and how ANYONE connected to the Daley / Dead Fish machine should probably be doing 50+ years a piece.
And let's not forget about the Enron scumbags... Andrew Fastow and that wife of his in particular.
They should have all gotten life sentences for what they did, but they are out on the streets free as birds, and even picking up public speaking gigs at universities to discuss "business ethics."
You’ll win the bet everytime if you just assume that whatever the question, for Sharpton the answer is always “raaayyyyyciiisssmm!!!”
How many years did Blago get?
He’ll be out in ten (unless Obama pardons him sooner) and run for and win a seat in the House.
Thanks for the ping. 28 years should be given to the enablers/cricket-chirpers in politics who never said a peep about this criminal. Cox? Grandholm? Etc.
As for King Kwame, the POS thug, he should be taken from the courtroom and hung from a non-functioning street lamp. There are many in bankrupt Detroit. Get some postive use out of them.
FUKwame & and your thugs/homies/enablers/sycophants/family members (except kids) and entourage..
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