Remember former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick? Well, looks like Kwame's affair with his chief of staff in the text messaging and federal corruption scandal a few years ago wasn't the only affair that Kwame had.
Detroit News:
Detroit --City leaders are exploring whether they can recoup millions of dollars paid to a federal monitor after text messages revealed she rendezvoused with former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick over at least 18 months.
Detroit News:
Detroit --City leaders are exploring whether they can recoup millions of dollars paid to a federal monitor after text messages revealed she rendezvoused with former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick over at least 18 months.
Officials on Monday said they're exploring legal action after the U.S. Justice Department shared text messages with them showing a "personal relationship" between the former mayor and Sheryl Robinson Wood, who resigned last week as the monitor overseeing Detroit police reforms.
The messages between 2003 and 2005 indicate Wood and Kilpatrick met in Washington, D.C., and "several other cities" for meetings unrelated to a consent decree implemented to curb police abuses, said Saul Green, a city executive who oversees public safety. The city paid the monitor at least $10 million through 2006.
"They showed contacts between the monitor and the former mayor that were inappropriate and also an exchange of information related to the litigation," said Green, who declined to say whether the encounters were intimate.
"It was a personal relationship in which they met, in which they went to dinner."
U.S. Attorney Terry Berg said Monday that he couldn't say if the Justice Department would open an investigation into Wood. He declined to discuss the texts or how the department obtained them.
"This is a serious situation," Berg said.
Green also wouldn't say how the feds obtained the messages, but the development could underscore federal interest in Kilpatrick. He resigned last year and served jail time after text messages indicate he lied during a 2007 police whistle-blower trial about his affair with former chief of staff, Christine Beatty. More than 600,000 messages -- many of which have never been released -- were obtained by Wayne County prosecutors.
Since then, Kilpatrick and his father, Bernard Kilpatrick, have been linked to a federal corruption probe into pay-to-play accusations at City Hall.
4 comments:
Speaking of Pay-To-Play, that's the name of the new book out about Blago.
Blago's book is supposed to come out in September. The cat might read a free copy, before it goes to the neighbors for roasted marshmallow bonfire kindling.
Why waste your brain to read Blago's garbage book although you are reading a free copy? Might as well as read former Gov. Ryan's future book [if he is writing one] how to not bend over for soap in the pokey.
Oh, Mr. Kitty:
I wouldn't be surprised of former Mayor Kwame writes his tell-all book titled: How I screw the women and Detroit at the same time, the text-to-play-to-steal scheme.
Kitty, The Capital Fax had a nice link to the book, and encourage labels.
I watched it go from one to 70 labels in one day, encouraged by Rich Miller, blog administrator, Capital Fax
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