DETROIT (AP) — A fundraiser for Kwame Kilpatrick has told jurors that she gave the then-Detroit mayor thousands of dollars that were supposed to go to his political campaign or a nonprofit fund. Emma Bell testified Thursday in Kilpatrick's corruption trial. She admitted turning over more than $200,000 to him, typically in amounts of less […]
DETROIT (AP) — 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 is on trial for alleged corruption, mostly committed at City Hall from 2002 through […]
DETROIT (AP) — A college buddy who was granted immunity by federal prosecutors testified Tuesday that he delivered $90,000 in cash to Kwame Kilpatrick in 2008 while the former Detroit mayor's family was settling in Texas after his resignation. Mahlon Clift said he gave $50,000 to Kilpatrick in Dallas in September 2008, after the ex-mayor […]
DETROIT (AP) — Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick conspired with his father and best friend to turn City Hall into a den of bribes and kickbacks, a prosecutor said Friday as jurors heard opening statements in Kilpatrick's corruption trial. Assistant U.S. Attorney Mark Chutkow gave jurors a 40-minute overview of what they'll see and hear […]
Lawyers for ex-Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick are trying to keep information about the ex-mayor’s past from the upcoming trial. The lawyers for Kwame Kilpatrick and his three co-defendants have asked a federal judge to prohibit scandalous text messages, information about his troubled past and college grades from being presented to jurors. The ex-mayor specifically asked […]
Part 1: Sybil Wilkes talks with Former Mayor of Detroit Kwame Kilpatrick about the upcoming political race, politics and the importance of the re-election of President Obama.
Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick is facing federal civil charges of taking part in an influence-peddling scheme involving the city’s public-employee pension funds. The Securities and Exchange Commission says Kilpatrick and ex-city treasurer Jeffrey Beasley received $125,000 in private jet travel and other perks from an investment firm. The SEC says that was in exchange […]
It could have been different. Before the accusations, before the scandal, before the apologies, there were the makings of a good mayor and a good man. Kwame Kilpatrick was born into a powerful Michigan political family. His mother, Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick, a good friend of our show, spent years as a Michigan legislator and from […]
Don’t Hate the Technology This morning on the Big Show, we ask the question, “How Has Texting Gotten You in Trouble?” We are singling out that mode of technology, but really, thousands of years ago, you could have asked a similar question to a caveman – “How did drawings on the walls of the caves […]
Sybil interviews the former mayor of Detroit, Kwame Kilpatrick, about his rise and fall in the political world. Click Play to Listen! Part 1. Part 2. Part 3. Click to purchase Surrendered! The Rise, Fall and Revelation of Kwame Kilp
Do ALL Men Cheat? That's the Direct question Deya asked Kwame and she didn't stop there…
Deya gets Direct and asks Carlita Kilpatrick the million dollar question: Why did you stay?
