Kilpatrick Trial: Courtroom Enjoys The Show As Video Demonstrates How To Hide $90,000 In Pants

FBI Agent Shows How To Stuff $90,000 In Pants For Kwame Trial
Former Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick makes his way to U.S. Federal Court Thursday Sept. 27, 2012, in Detroit. Michigan's former state budget director told jurors Thursday that she was "angry" when she learned that public grants approved in 2000 at the urging of Kwame Kilpatrick ended up in the hands of the former mayor's wife. Kilpatrick and three associates are on trial on various corruption and racketeering charges. (AP Photo/The Detroit News, David Coates)
Former Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick makes his way to U.S. Federal Court Thursday Sept. 27, 2012, in Detroit. Michigan's former state budget director told jurors Thursday that she was "angry" when she learned that public grants approved in 2000 at the urging of Kwame Kilpatrick ended up in the hands of the former mayor's wife. Kilpatrick and three associates are on trial on various corruption and racketeering charges. (AP Photo/The Detroit News, David Coates)

As if they weren't already engaged, jurors in Detroit's public corruption trial saw some eyebrow-raising testimony Friday that could have passed for a steamy men's underwear commercial: a buff federal agent in Levis lifting up his T-shirt and shoving wads of cash down his pants.

Several women in the courtroom smiled, even the jurors.

The government showed the video to support the testimony of a witness who said he once snuck $90,000 past airport security to deliver it to Kwame Kilpatrick at the behest of the former Detroit mayor's friend and codefendant Bobby Ferguson. The government says the $90,000 was a bribe to Kilpatrick for helping Ferguson win lucrative contracts.

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