Sybil Wilkes provides the latest details on Jovan Belcher, Jesse Jackson Jr. and Kwame Kilpatrick.
DETROIT (AP) — The corruption case of Kwame Kilpatrick was given to jurors Friday after a blistering summary from a prosecutor who said the former Detroit mayor’s bank account swelled with a “tidal wave of green” through extortion and bribery. Assistant U.S. Attorney Mark Chutkow tried to pull the jury to the government’s view of […]
DETROIT (AP) — Kwame Kilpatrick turned Detroit’s City Hall into a “private profit machine” by rigging contracts, demanding bribes and even stealing money meant for the needy, a prosecutor said during closing arguments Monday in the former mayor’s corruption trial. Kilpatrick spent $840,000 more than he earned as Detroit’s mayor from 2002 until 2008, Assistant […]
DETROIT (AP) — Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick declined to testify Wednesday as the presentation of evidence in his corruption trial closed after nearly 70 days. Kilpatrick told a judge that he understood he had the right to speak in his own defense but would pass. His father, Bernard, and buddy Bobby Ferguson also declined […]
Roland Martin talks with Attorney Arnold Reed about the latest in the Kwame Kilpatrick trial.
Huggy Lowdown jokes with the crew about Ray Lewis, Kwame Kilpatrick & more on the TJMS.
DETROIT (AP)- Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick will spend the weekend in prison on a parole violation. In a news release issued Friday morning, Michigan Corrections spokesman Russ Marlan says Kilpatrick was charged with 14 counts of violating his parole. When given the opportunity to waive the formal parole violation process and serve three days […]
DETROIT (AP) – Jurors at Kwame Kilpatrick‘s federal corruption trial have seen a video of the ex-Detroit mayor’s father taking a case of Cristal champagne from a businessman needing a favor. Kwame and Bernard Kilpatrick and Bobby Ferguson are accused of extortion and bribery. James Rosendall testified Thursday that he repeatedly paid cash to Bernard […]
DETROIT (AP) — A former aide to Kwame Kilpatrick ended the first leg of his testimony Thursday by saying he delivered a $10,000 bribe to the then-Detroit mayor in a restaurant bathroom. The testimony came the same day that Michigan prison officials ordered Kilpatrick to wear an electronic tether and live with his mother while […]
DETROIT (AP) — A high-ranking aide to former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick told jurors Monday that he picked up thousands of dollars in bribes for his boss from a contractor at the city’s convention center where both men had broad powers over operations. Derrick Miller, who was Detroit’s chief administrative officer, said he collected thousands […]
DETROIT (AP) — A businessman portrayed himself Wednesday as a personal purveyor of luxury for then-Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, providing free round-trip flights on private planes, a $6,000 watch during a New York shopping spree and courtside basketball tickets to the NBA Finals — all to keep favor with the leader of the troubled city. […]
DETROIT (AP) — A businessman who claims he was extorted by then-Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick to protect his contracts at a Detroit convention center testified Tuesday that he told FBI agents just days before trial that he may have dementia. The disclosure by Karl Kado, 72, occurred near the end of four hours of vigorous cross-examination […]
