500 Witnesses, 370,000 Text Messages Could Play Key Role In Kwame Kilpatrick Case
The trial of former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, who faces numerous charges of embezzlement and corruption, is shaping up to be a long one. WXY...
The trial of former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, who faces numerous charges of embezzlement and corruption, is shaping up to be a long one. WXY...
AP | MARCY GORDON | Posted 05.09.2012
WASHINGTON — Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick is facing federal civil charges of taking part in an influence-peddling scheme involving the ...
Posted 04.25.2012
Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick may choose to take his chances with a jury as he awaits trial in an extensive corruption case. The Detroit Ne...
Posted 03.13.2012
The rise and fall of former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick will soon be chronicled in a new "documovie" made by his sister, Ayanna Kilpatrick Ferguson...
Posted 03.02.2012
The FBI's Detroit Office declared political corruption a top priority Thursday, as it announced the formation of a new multi-agency task force to figh...
Posted 03.01.2012
Detroit's former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick got word this week that his restitution payments to the city will triple. But the new monthly payment plan has...
AP | Posted 04.17.2012
DETROIT — Federal prosecutors have added a charge to the corruption case against former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick. The indictment returned...
John K. Bennett | Posted 03.05.2012
Go anywhere around the city, in the barbershops, around the water coolers at work and on local talk radio and the discussion regarding where to lay bl...
Rabbi Jason Miller | Posted 01.22.2012
There is certainly a revival in the Motor City and we should all be excited about the possibilities. But I want to caution Toby Barlow and anyone who believes that to be part of the renaissance one has to relocate to Downtown Detroit.
AP | By COREY WILLIAMS | Posted 01.01.2012
DETROIT -- A federal judge dismissed a civil lawsuit Tuesday that claimed the city of Detroit and ex-Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, a convicted felon, impede...
Rabbi Jason Miller | Posted 09.06.2011
Rather than seeking repentance for his misdeeds, Kwame cries that it was unfair the way he was treated and looks for a scapegoat. So, why not the Jews?
AP | MIKE HOUSEHOLDER and COREY WILLIAMS | Posted 09.05.2011
DETROIT — Disgraced former mayor Kwame Kilpatrick claims in an upcoming book that an unspoken alliance of political adversaries, Detroit busines...
freep.com | Posted 08.15.2011
The Associated Press has quoted the former Detroit mayor as saying that all proceeds from "Surrender: The Rise, Fall & Revelation of Kwame Kilpatrick"...
AP | ED WHITE | Posted 05.25.2011
DETROIT — Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, accused of obstructing the police investigation into the death of a stripper, testified Monday ...
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
DETROIT — A lawyer says a stripper got $1,000 to perform at a dope-fueled party at the Detroit mayor's mansion and saw Kwame Kilpatrick's wife a...
Steve Lake | Posted 05.25.2011
Here's a bit of last minute Christmas shopping tip: If your think your spouse is cheating on you, buy him or her a fancy smartphone and put it under the tree.
AP | COREY WILLIAMS | Posted 05.25.2011
DETROIT — They called it "Team Kilpatrick," a small army of family and friends dedicated to keeping a Detroit congresswoman and her brash, risin...
Bill Singer | Posted 05.25.2011
It used to be sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll -- now it's sex, drugs, rock 'n roll, politics and Wall Street. For some reason, a lot of folks just get hung up about that sex thing.
AP | DAVID RUNK | Posted 05.25.2011
DETROIT — The Michigan Department of Corrections says imprisoned ex-Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick is eligible for a 90-day boot camp program th...
Harmon Leon | Posted 05.25.2011
New Journalism is still in a Wild West transitional stage. With the collapse of the publishing industry the rules have yet to be defined--and so far...
AP | COREY WILLIAMS | Posted 05.25.2011
DETROIT — If ever a public figure should be down for the count, it is Kwame Kilpatrick. Stripped of his job as Detroit's mayor, locked in jail ...
AP | COREY WILLIAMS | Posted 05.25.2011
DETROIT — A defiant Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick quickly rejected the City Council's call Tuesday for him to resign because of accusations that he lie...
AP | COREY WILLIAMS | Posted 05.25.2011
DETROIT — A series of often explicit text messages from Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's former chief of staff appear to show she had a long-term romant...
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 05.25.2011
The Detroit Free Press has obtained court records containing over 6,000 text messages from the city-issued paging device of former mayoral chief-of-st...
AP | ED WHITE and COREY WILLIAMS | Posted 05.25.2011
DETROIT — Former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick is out of jail. His ex-lover and top aide, Christine Beatty, still has weeks behind bars. But their text mes...
Posted 05.30.2012