Kwame Kilpatrick under fire

The man who came into power as the youngest mayor in Detroit history leaves as the only chief executive charged with a felony. The decision in 2003 by Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and his former chief of staff, Christine Beatty, to remove Gary Brown from the helm of internal affairs snowballed into a wide-reaching scandal. Lying about the decision under oath during a whistleblower trial eventually cost them their jobs, and will land Kilpatrick behind bars.

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FBI is probing Kilpatrick finances

Kwame Kilpatrick admitted Wednesday to getting a loan from a friend toward his restitution.

Detroit -- Testimony by an FBI agent investigating Kwame Kilpatrick's finances contradicted earlier statements by the former mayor about his involvement in the negotiations over the rent on his leased $1 million home in Southlake, Texas. - 11/19/2009

Ex-Kilpatrick lawyer: Stefani didn't disclose texts given to reporter

Stefani

Detroit --Samuel McCargo, the lawyer who represented former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick in a police whistle-blower trial, testified Wednesday that attorney Michael Stefani assured him he had only two copies of a disk containing explosive text messages and never told McCargo he had given another copy to a newspaper reporter. - 11/19/2009

Prosecutors target loan help

So many people have helped former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick make his court-ordered restitution payments, he can't keep track of who contributed, according to prosecutors. - 11/19/2009

Kilpatrick defends self, says he still loves Beatty

Former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, who is due back in court today, says he still loves Christine Beatty and is stronger for what he considers ongoing persecution. - 11/17/2009

Lawyer for family of dancer gets texts

Greene

Detroit -- A lawyer for the family of slain exotic dancer Tamara Greene will be able to read all 36 city of Detroit text messages that federal magistrates judges have identified as potentially relevant to the family's lawsuit against city of Detroit officials, a judge ruled Monday. - 11/17/2009

Stefani defends role in Kilpatrick text scandal

Michael Stefani said the release of the text messages will be seen as Detroit's "changing point."

Battling charges that he unethically authored an agreement to keep Kwame Kilpatrick's text messages secret, Michael Stefani sees himself as a hero for his role behind a newspaper's exposé that started the downfall of the former mayor. - 11/13/2009

Judge: No more Kilpatrick text messages to be released

Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick leaves court last month after a hearing on his restitution payments.

Detroit -- A Wayne County Circuit judge said Thursday he will not release any further messages between former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and his ex-chief-of-staff Christine Beatty. - 11/12/2009

Lawyer to testify about leaking Kilpatrick texts

Stefani

Detroit --The lawyer who authored an agreement to keep former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's text messages secret returns to the witness stand Thursday for questions about why he gave copies to the Detroit Free Press. - 11/11/2009

Kilpatrick lawyer claims prosecutor wrong about cash flow

The probation hearing for former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick will resume Nov. 17.

The amount of money that allegedly flowed through bank accounts belonging to former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and his wife has been exaggerated by Wayne County's prosecutor, according to Kilpatrick's lawyer. - 11/04/2009

More than $1M moved through Kilpatricks' bank accounts

Kwame Kilpatrick denied knowing anything about wife Carlita's financial affairs at the hearing.

Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's claim that he knows little about his family finances because they are now handled by his wife is common when spouses face legal liabilities, experts say. - 10/31/2009

Finances of Kilpatrick's wife come up in hearing

Former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's admission Thursday in court that his wife controls and runs the family's finances sparked questions about whether she works and how she came upon $1 million to move through several bank accounts in the past year. - 10/31/2009

Daniel Howes

Howes: Arrogant ex-mayor betrays supporters again

Four of Metro Detroit's most powerful business leaders pony up $240,000 to speed Kwame Kilpatrick's exit from the mayor's office. And what do they get in return? - 10/30/2009

Businessmen loaned Kilpatrick $240,000

Kwame Kilpatrick takes a moment to compose himself Thursday during a Wayne County court hearing on his finances.

Detroit -- Before Kwame Kilpatrick went to jail last year, he knew he could rely on a few local businessmen when he got out. That's when he could expect to collect a nearly quarter-million dollar loan. - 10/30/2009

Kilpatrick sues Stefani over leaked text messages

Kilpatrick, left and Stefani

Kwame Kilpatrick on Wednesday sued the lawyer who gave the Detroit Free Press copies of text messages that showed the former mayor lied under oath. - 10/29/2009

Kilpatrick due in court today

Kilpatrick, left, and Worthy

Detroit -- Kwame Kilpatrick will be back in a Wayne County courtroom today to answer allegations he violated his probation. - 10/29/2009

Kilpatrick scandal lawyer gave texts to newspaper

Michael Stefani, the attorney who represented police officers in the whistle-blower lawsuit that exposed the criminal wrongdoing of former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, admitted under oath Thursday that he provided the original text messages to the Detroit Free Press.

Detroit -- Michael Stefani, the attorney who represented police officers in the whistle-blower lawsuit that exposed the criminal wrongdoing of former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, has admitted under oath today that he provided the original text messages to the Detroit Free Press. - 10/08/2009

Privacy spurred Kilpatrick move

Kilpatrick

An attorney for Kwame Kilpatrick say autograph hounds and publicity seekers compelled the former mayor to move into a $1 million mansion in a gated community in Texas last weekend. - 06/10/2009

Kilpatrick rents $1M mansion

Last year, the owner of the home in the gated community was asking $1.1 million before taking it off the market, according to real estate records.

Former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, who recently pleaded poverty to prosecutors, moved into a rented $1 million mansion in one of the nation's richest suburbs last weekend. - 06/09/2009

Mayor Kilpatrick builds huge defense team

Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick waits in court with lawyer Dan K. Webb, left. The mayor's defense may cost millions.

At least 17 attorneys have represented Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick since 2007, when he was called to testify at a police whistle-blower trial that has led to the criminal charges against him. Kilpatrick also faces civil actions in federal and circuit courts, a City Council removal effort, possible removal by the governor and recall efforts. - 05/20/2009

Laura Berman

Swearing-in a small start for a big job that's ahead

Elected by a majority of only 15 percent of the city's registered voters, Bing doesn't have a mandate but he does have an emergency mission: to save a city contracting like the urban equivalent of an astral black hole. - 05/12/2009

Judge: Kilpatrick must pay up

Former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's attorneys plan to appeal a Friday decision rejecting his bid to reduce his monthly payments toward $1 million restitution. - 05/09/2009

Secretary of state to rule on legality of Kilpatrick defense payments

The secretary of state will decide by July 6 whether Kwame Kilpatrick violated state law when he tapped his re-election fund to pay roughly $1 million in legal fees. - 04/15/2009

Commentary

Did Kilpatrick's legal bills cheat contributors?

While it is unusual for Kwame Kilpatrick to spend campaign donations on his legal bills, it does not seem to be fraud, a legal analyst argues.

Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's recent campaign committee report disclosed that he spent nearly $1 million of contributions for his legal defense to the perjury and obstruction of justice charges that landed him in jail. The legal fees were listed as "incidental office expenditure disbursements," although paying one's lawyers to defend a criminal prosecution hardly seems to be an ordinary political campaign offense expense. - 04/14/2009

Editorial: Seize Kilpatrick campaign funds

Kwame Kilpatrick paid legal defense bills from his Detroit mayoral campaign fund.

Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick has been using his campaign fund to pay off his legal bills and write checks to family members. This guy owes the city a lot of money. Any cash he has stashed anywhere ought to be seized to settle that obligation. - 04/10/2009

Kwame Kilpatrick paid legal bills with $980K from campaign war chest

The former mayor, in a legally debatable move, tapped his re-election campaign to pay his lawyers $980,000 last year, campaign finance records show. - 04/09/2009

Detroit officials predict low turnout for mayoral vote

City officials say turnout for the special mayoral election May 5 is expected to be just as ho-hum as the mediocre participation in the Feb. 24 primary. - 04/09/2009

Editorial Quick Hits: Ours

Kilpatrick should just pay up

Disgraced former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick stuck city taxpayers with a bill for more than $8 million in what was essentially hush money. Now he wants a break from his court-ordered restitution. The court should say: No dice. - 03/28/2009

Kilpatrick wants a break on restitution

Former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick is asking for a break on court-ordered payments toward $1 million in restitution he must pay the city as part of his sentence for the text message scandal. - 03/27/2009

Kilpatrick makes restitution payment

Former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick is proving to be a model felony probationer, not only making all court-ordered payments toward his $1 million restitution on time this month but doing so a week early. - 03/26/2009

Freed Beatty revels in junk food, kids

Christine Beatty walks out of Wayne County Jail early Monday morning after serving 70 days of her 120-day sentence.

There was no school Monday for the daughters of Christine Beatty. They stayed home with Mom, who was released shortly after midnight from the Wayne County Jail, where she served 70 days of a 120-day sentence for her part in the text message scandal. - 03/17/2009

Laura Berman

Commentary: Beatty caught in unfair, and unequal, treatment

Beatty

While we were pawing through the unexpurgated text messages that Christine Beatty traded five years ago with the once mayor of Detroit, Beatty was folding sheets at the Wayne County Jail for bedrolls. - 03/14/2009

Judge rules Beatty can go free Monday

Ex-Kilpatrick Chief of Staff Christine Beatty testifies Friday to her work toward "program time" for early release.

Just like her former boss and lover Kwame Kilpatrick, Christine Beatty will be allowed to leave the Wayne County Jail in early morning darkness. - 03/14/2009

Jailer denied Beatty credit

The chief of Wayne County's jail was in the courtroom on Jan. 6 when Christine Beatty was sentenced. Jeriel Heard said he listened as the judge ordered she qualified for early release from her 120-day sentence through a work program. - 03/13/2009

Frank Beckmann

Commentary: Text messages bust myth about Manoogian party

It's hard to find a person in town who doesn't know someone, who knows someone, who knows something about someone who was at the infamous Manoogian Mansion party. - 03/13/2009

Judge rips Kilpatrick, OKs Texas move

Kwame Kilpatrick, seen at his Texas home last month, will earn $20,000 monthly in accelerated pay at Covisint for six months.

Wayne County Circuit Judge David Groner on Tuesday blessed Kwame Kilpatrick's bid to transfer his probation to Texas, where he has a six-figure job lined up at Covisint, a division of Detroit-based software giant Compuware. - 03/11/2009

Texts reveal insights on ex-mayor's life

Kwame Kilpatrick, we now know, was many things: football player, philanderer, charismatic mayor and now a convicted felon. But was he also a one-time drug dealer? Or is he merely a leg-puller? - 03/11/2009

Ex-mayor juggled women: Suggestive texts sent to at least five

Then-Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and his Chief of Staff Christine Beatty go bar hopping Jan. 3, 2002, as part of the mayor's inaugural celebration.

Beyond his duties as mayor, Kwame Kilpatrick was a very busy player. Besides his wife, Carlita Kilpatrick, and his chief of staff and eventual co-defendant, Christine Beatty, there are at least five other women mentioned in the texts that date from 2002-2005. - 03/10/2009

Texts cast light on Manoogian probe

Kilpatrick

DETROIT -- Former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's top lawyer suggested that Attorney General Mike Cox was going to find there was no Manoogian Mansion party before the probe even began, according to text messages released Monday. - 03/10/2009

Laura Berman

Commentary: 'By any means necessary' seemed to be motto

Enough. Leave the man alone, you want to say. He's served his time, in jail and in public humiliation. - 03/10/2009

Messages capture city's attention

Near about noon on Monday, many weary eyes turned instinctively to television and the Internet. - 03/10/2009

Kilpatrick wants Skytel to pay

DETROIT -- Hours after release of more juicy -- and embarrassing -- text messages, Kwame Kilpatrick signaled he wants $100 million worth of payback. - 03/10/2009

Regime saw enemies in media, council

DETROIT -- Blame the other guy, resist efforts at transparency and don't be afraid to play the race card. - 03/10/2009

Beatty seeks 'credits' to reduce sentence

Once the most powerful woman in City Hall, Christine Beatty has worked 3 to 6 hours a day behind bars folding towels and jailhouse bedding in the belief that the chores would shorten her sentence for the text message scandal. - 03/07/2009

Judge to release new texts

Kilpatrick and Beatty

Next week's court-ordered release of previously undisclosed text messages literally could fill in many blanks in the scandal that brought down former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick. - 03/05/2009

Editorial: Ex-mayor faces detour en route to Dallas

Kilpatrick

As much as Kwame Kilpatrick's departure for his new life in Dallas would be welcome, there are a few loose ends the former mayor needs to tie up in Detroit first. Chief among them is submitting a plan detailing how, and on what schedule, he intends to pay the $1 million in restitution that was a condition of his plea deal. - 02/27/2009

Judge orders more data from Kilpatrick

James Thomas, left, and Gerald Evelyn, attorneys for former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, listen in court Tuesday.

A Wayne County Circuit judge declined on Tuesday to hold Kalitta Air Charters in contempt of court for failing to provide records showing who paid for the private business jet used by Kwame Kilpatrick to fly to Texas the day he was released from jail. - 02/25/2009

Kilpatrick lied again, Worthy tells court

Kwame Kilpatrick catches some high school hoops Friday at University of Detroit Mercy.

Kwame Kilpatrick has a house with a swimming pool and a six-figure job. But one person could stand in his way: Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy. - 02/21/2009

Kilpatrick request scrutinized

Kwame Kilpatrick said he wants to return to Texas for job training.

A Wayne County Circuit judge is likely to have pointed questions for former mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's lawyers when they return to court later this month. - 02/14/2009

Daniel Howes: Commentary

Howes: Kwame hire is risky business

How many former inmates of the Wayne County Jail walk out and a week later into a job paying $100,000 a year plus commissions to work for Compuware's health care unit? - 02/14/2009

Kilpatrick backer now his employer

Ex-Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick flew last week to Southlake, Texas, where his family moved.

Peter Karmanos supported and defended Kwame Kilpatrick through controversies and scandal. Now, the chairman of Compuware has given the former mayor a job. - 02/13/2009

Report: Former Mayor Kilpatrick will work for Compuware affiliate

Former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick

Published reports say Kilpatrick will accept a job with an affiliate of Detroit-based Compuware, despite a statement last week by ex-mayor and Compuware board member Dennis Archer that the disgraced ex-mayor would not be hired. - 02/12/2009

Kilpatrick back after job hunt in Dallas

Kilpatrick

Former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick is back in town Monday after being released from jail a week ago and flying to Dallas for a job interview in a private jet that his mother leased. - 02/10/2009

Kilpatrick's job status in Texas under wraps

Thursday was decision day for Kwame Kilpatrick's job hunt, but allies won't say if the disgraced former mayor is gainfully employed. - 02/06/2009

Council questions Kilpatrick donor's contracts

Kilpatrick

DETROIT -- A major donor and political fund manager for former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick owns a company that works on the city's electronic voting equipment, raising concerns about election integrity among some members of Detroit City Council and the head of a political watchdog group. - 02/06/2009

Kilpatrick takes on 'the Big D' in style

This home in Southlake, Texas was rented to a C.E. Kilpatrick.

Kwame Kilpatrick owes the city nearly $1 million in restitution, but some are wondering if he's determined to continue his VIP lifestyle now that he's out of jail. - 02/05/2009

Moving on: Some ex-mayoral appointees join ranks of unemployed

Former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick went from a Detroit jail to a job interview in Texas in a matter of hours.

Kwame Kilpatrick, fresh from jail and searching for a full-time job, is not the only person from his administration looking for a steady income. - 02/05/2009

A shaggy, thinner Kwame Kilpatrick leaves jail

Surrounded by his lawyers and supporters, Kwame Kilpatrick was released from jail at 12:35 a.m.

Flanked by bodyguards, a bearded Kwame Kilpatrick walked out of the Wayne County Jail at 12:35 this morning a free man. He said nothing but his newest attorney, Willie Gary of Florida, spoke for him: "He's upbeat. He's not bitter. He has grown ... he wants to get on with his life." - 02/03/2009

Kilpatrick closes in on release

Within 24 hours, Kwame Kilpatrick will leave the Wayne County Jail and begin the arduous process of putting his life and reputation back together. The disgraced former mayor will be released on Tuesday and plans to fly the same day to Texas for a job interview. - 02/02/2009

Kilpatrick wants to pack up, leave Mich.

A move away from Michigan would reunite former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick with his family.

Kwame Kilpatrick's plans to leave Michigan will make a political comeback by the former mayor more difficult, analysts said Tuesday. - 01/28/2009

Kilpatrick seeks permission to travel

Kilpatrick

Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick is seeking permission to travel out of state after his pending release from the Wayne County Jail, people familiar with the case said Monday. - 01/27/2009

Attorney: HUD investigated Ferguson

Detroit contractor Bobby Ferguson

The investigative arm of the Department of Housing and Urban Development was investigating Detroit contractor Bobby Ferguson's involvement in the restoration of the Book Cadillac hotel. - 01/21/2009

Kilpatrick to remain disbarred

Kilpatrick

The Michigan Attorney Discipline Board refused Tuesday to lift an order revoking the law license of former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick. - 01/21/2009

James David Dickson: Commentary

'Kwame a River': Detroit gets last laugh on ex-mayor

This is the stuff Greek tragedies are made of. Hometown boy, prepped for the throne since birth, is ushered into high office on the promise of change and offering the hope of a New Day. - 01/21/2009

FBI raids Ferguson businesses

A federal agent carries filing boxes into a Ferguson business in Thursday's raid.

FBI agents on Thursday raided two Detroit businesses connected to city contractor Bobby Ferguson, making him the latest ally of former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick linked to a federal criminal investigation. - 01/16/2009

Charges of pay-to-play surface in Detroit pension lawsuit

A Southern businessman in a legal battle with the city's pension boards claims Detroit's former treasurer pressured him to donate $100,000 to then-Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's legal fund in exchange for another $15 million pension investment in his now-failed airline. - 01/14/2009

Jail is the price of lying for Beatty

Christine Beatty tries to mask her emotions during her sentencing. She declined to make a statement in court Tuesday.

The text message scandal will leave scars and long-term financial impact, but the region might now move toward healing, according to the judge who sent Christine Beatty to jail on Tuesday. - 01/07/2009

Beatty's finances puzzling

A Wayne County Sheriff's deputy escorts Christine Beatty out of the courtroom Tuesday after her sentencing.

The list was startling from the beginning. Christine Beatty, unemployed for most of the past year and with just $6 in her checking account, pays $2,400 a month on her mortgage, an assistant prosecutor told a Wayne Circuit Court judge on Tuesday. - 01/07/2009

Beatty: No way to prepare for jail

Christine Beatty sat at the counter of downtown Detroit's Lafayette Coney Island with her two children, wondering how she would face going to jail for her part in the tawdry text message scandal. - 01/06/2009

Beatty's jail time won't be isolated

Beatty

Christine Beatty will serve her jail sentence in the general population area with other inmates, county officials said -- a decision that has upset at least one of her supporters. - 01/01/2009

City Hall corruption probe may be coming to a head

A long-running and wide-ranging federal investigation focusing on City Hall corruption during the administration of former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick is plodding toward a conclusion. - 12/16/2008

Kilpatricks sell Florida property

The loss on the sale means former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick probably won't be able to tap the home to help pay his restitution to the city.

Unlike many struggling to sell their homes, jailed former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick has unloaded his vacation house in Florida. But like many, it went for a big loss. - 12/11/2008

Worthy: Kilpatrick broke deal

Kwame Kilpatrick has broken the deal he made to avoid trial in the text message scandal by attempting to undo the revocation of his law license, said Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy. - 12/03/2008

Detroit council OKs legal bills in whistle-blower case

DETROIT -- The City Council approved a host of legal contracts Tuesday for city lawyers embroiled in the $8.4 million whistle-blower scandal. - 12/03/2008

Tearful, repentant Beatty pleads guilty

Christine Beatty, former chief of staff for ex-Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, wipes away tears as she pleads guilty to two counts of obstruction of justice in Wayne County Circuit Court on Monday.

For almost a year, her attorneys were defiant, saying they would get the infamous text messages thrown out of court and Christine Beatty would be vindicated by a trial. - 12/02/2008

Cell open on Kilpatrick's block

Christine Beatty, like Kwame Kilpatrick, may be assigned to an isolated cell.

When Christine Beatty begins serving her 120-day jail sentence on Jan. 5, she could end up in an isolated cell next to her former boss, ex-Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, who also is serving a 120-day sentence in the Wayne County Jail. - 12/02/2008

POWER TRANSFER

Cockrel won't take city's reins from Kilpatrick until Sept. 19

The city breathed a collective sigh of relief when Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick announced his resignation Thursday, but soon could face the anxiety of the unknown. Among the questions: How will power be transferred over the next two weeks from Kilpatrick to Council President Kenneth V. Cockrel Jr.? - 09/05/2008

For Beatty, scandal lingers

With the mayor accepting a deal, Christine Beatty has little to offer prosecutors in exchange for a lighter sentence. - 09/05/2008

Work of Kilpatrick's defense team questioned after deal

Kilpatrick attorney Dan K. Webb speaks Thursday in front of the rest of the mayor's defense team.

DETROIT -- The sentence Kwame Kilpatrick will receive next month is close to what he might have gotten had he gone to trial and been convicted, according to experts and one of his former lawyers. - 09/05/2008

Detroit 'set me up for a comeback'

Carlita Kilpatrick stands by her husband, Kwame Kilpatrick, during his press conference Thursday evening at the Coleman A. Young Municipal Center in Detroit.

Let there be no doubt: Kwame Kilpatrick intends to return. On a day when his childhood dreams of being mayor ended with guilty pleas and his resignation, Kilpatrick let everyone know that, at age 38, he wholeheartedly expects to be a leader again. - 09/05/2008

Kilpatrick pleads guilty and resigns

Kwame Kilpatrick confers with attorney James C. Thomas before entering his pleas. The youngest mayor in Detroit's history will be sentenced Oct. 28 and report directly to jail, where he'll serve at least 100 days of his sentence.

After six turbulent years and six months of criminal charges, after the destruction of careers and the squandering of more than $10 million in city funds, Kwame Kilpatrick's career as mayor is over. - 09/05/2008

Daniel Howes

Commentary: Detroit's doubts don't end here

The resignation of Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and his agreement to spend four months in a Wayne County jail are supposed to end Detroit's lengthening nightmare, to remove the instability that business hates and investors abhor. - 09/05/2008

Laura Berman

Commentary: Beatty, the woman left behind

The mayor breezed by Christine Beatty as if she wasn't there, too, in Courtroom 303. Once she was powerful, exciting, important. Now she is the invisible woman, the shamed woman, the woman left behind. - 09/05/2008

Metro Detroit heaves sigh of relief over resolution of charges

Demonstrators mingle with the merely curious while inside Mayor Kilpatrick had his day in court.

Sadness, relief and anger rippled through Metro Detroit Thursday as residents, business officials and political leaders tried to make sense of Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's quick rise to fame and tragic fall after he pleaded guilty to two felonies and agreed to resign from office. - 09/05/2008

Cockrel fulfills dad's legacy

Between Ken Cockrel Jr. and his dad, the elder Cockrel was the one who seemed destined to become mayor of Detroit. - 09/05/2008

Police chief retires on historic day

Bully- Cummings

DETROIT -- On the day Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick pleaded guilty to two felonies and agreed to leave office, the city's top cop announced her retirement. - 09/05/2008

Meteoric rise ends in dramatic crash for Kilpatrick

9-10-07 Whistle-blower lawyer Mike Stefani

DETROIT -- His reputation in tatters, Kwame Kilpatrick leaves the mayor's office with an uncertain future and an inescapable legacy. - 09/05/2008

'This didn't have to go this way,' cops' lawyer says

DETROIT -- Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and former Chief of Staff Christine Beatty's decision on May 5, 2003, to remove Deputy Chief Gary Brown from the helm of internal affairs typically might have yielded little more than a few days of bad press and a rather routine lawsuit settlement. - 09/05/2008

Deal finalized just before hearing

DETROIT -- The plea deal that was revealed Thursday in Wayne Circuit Court still was not finalized less than two hours before the mayor's scheduled court appearance, according to those involved in the talks. - 09/05/2008

Experts: Worthy was tough

Wayne County prosecutor Kym Worthy beams during the hearing of Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's plea deals, including resignation, in court Thursday.

DETROIT -- Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy showed courage when she went toe-to-toe with one of the region's most powerful leaders, legal experts said. - 09/05/2008

Mayor's legal woes persist

DETROIT -- The plea deal announced Thursday to settle perjury and other felony charges against Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick does not automatically resolve all of the mayor's legal woes. - 09/05/2008

Gov: Scandal 'affects us all'

 If there can be any real winners in a case where the mayor of the state's largest city is compelled to resign his office in shame, Gov. Jennifer Granholm is among them. - 09/05/2008

Mayor's exit, future raise questions

Thursday's plea deal by Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick leaves many secondary questions awaiting answers. Among them: - 09/05/2008

Kwame Kilpatrick, in his own words

"I don't whore around on my wife ... I want people to understand that I would never disrespect my God, my wife or my children." - 09/05/2008

Kilpatrick pleads guilty: 'I lied under oath'

DETROIT -- In four short words, Mayor Kwame M. Kilpatrick acknowledged his guilt Thursday morning, admitting he lied during a whistle-blower case brought by two former police officers who claimed they were punished for looking into wrongdoing by the mayor's staff. - 09/04/2008

Editorial: Ministers pull punch on Kilpatrick

Detroit's ministerial community has been disappointingly meek in responding to the scandal engulfing Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick. - 08/13/2008

EDITORIAL UPDATE: Kilpatrick jailing sends needed message

If Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick didn't know before that being free on bond as a criminal defendant is a privilege rather than a right, he certainly does now. - 08/07/2008

Nolan Finley

Remove Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick before city falls

Thursday's skirmish piles on to the mayor's legal woes, which include felony charges.

Enough, already. The escalating disaster that is the Kwame Kilpatrick administration must end now. One more day is one too many. - 07/26/2008

Editorial

Editorial: Court sends Kilpatrick the right message

It is impossible to fathom what Kwame Kilpatrick was thinking when he interfered with Wayne County officers attempting to carry out a court order. The encounter easily could have ended in tragedy, considering that both the detective and the three Kilpatrick bodyguards were armed. - 07/26/2008

Laura Berman

Uneasy sits the crown Kilpatrick created

Rather than being celebrated as the dynastic queen who spawned the city's ruling prince, Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick is suddenly being held accountable for the sins, real and/or imagined, of her high-profile son. Political family - 07/22/2008

Kilpatrick legal fund donors owe taxes

DETROIT -- Three of the 31 companies and individuals that donated money to Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's legal defense fund owe more than $820,000 in state and federal taxes, public records show. - 07/19/2008

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