Kwame moves into a million dollar mansion

Subject: Kwame moves into a million dollar mansion Wed Jun 10, 2009 3:48 pm

Anybody see the article in the Detroit News about this

And Kwame has the nerve to claim hardship regarding his making court payments in restitution to the city of Detroit!

Why isn't this asshole taken back to court and thrown in jail

Subject: Re: Kwame moves into a million dollar mansion Wed Jun 10, 2009 3:53 pm

Kilpatricks move into Texas home that dwarfs the Manoogian

By JIM SCHAEFER and M.L. ELRICK • FREE PRESS STAFF WRITERS • June 8, 2009

See Video of the house by clicking headline or here...

Kwame Kilpatrick, who recently claimed that he could spare only $6 a month for restitution to the City of Detroit, moved into a million-dollar home over the weekend that dwarfs the Manoogian Mansion.

At 5,866 square feet, Kilpatrick’s new digs, which he is leasing in tony Southlake, Texas, are nearly 50% larger than the city-owned mansion he used to occupy as Detroit mayor, before the text message scandal cost him his job and his freedom. The Detroit mansion, now vacant, is just 4,000 square feet.

Kilpatrick’s new home is in a gated community, and is listed on Web sites for sale at $1.1 million. Built in 1998, it has five bedrooms, 5½ baths, a game room, a study, a formal dining room and an in-ground pool in the back hugged by a stone patio and pathway.

Jim Carlisle, who owns the home, confirmed today that he leased it to Kilpatrick, but Carlisle would not say how much the former mayor is paying. The Kilpatricks moved in Saturday, leaving their former home in Southlake, where the ex-mayor’s wife, Carlita Kilpatrick, and their three sons have lived since leaving Detroit in December.

Kwame Kilpatrick joined them there after his release from jail in February. Kilpatrick had said he paid $2,700 a month to lease that home.

While it is not known how much the Kilpatricks are paying for the new house, it is more than twice the size of the 2,800-square-foot home they just left.

Kilpatrick is appealing a judge’s order that he pay $6,000 a month to the City of Detroit, saying he has only $6 remaining after expenses such as rent and a $900 a month lease on a new Cadillac Escalade. As part of his sentence in the text message scandal, Kilpatrick was ordered to repay $1 million to the city.

After leaving jail in February, Kilpatrick joined his family in Texas and began working as an account executive for Covisint, a subsidiary of Detroit-based Compuware.

His lawyer on the restitution matter, Michael Alan Schwartz, said this afternoon he did not know about the house move and declined to comment until he speaks with Kilpatrick. Schwartz had announced earlier today that Kilpatrick had paid the remaining $3,500 he owed from his May restitution payment.

If Kilpatrick is paying more for rent now, that surely will rankle prosecutors in Detroit, who already have protested his comfortable Texas lifestyle while Kilpatrick still owes so much money to Detroit.

Maria Miller, spokeswoman for Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy, did not immediately comment.

In a court motion in February, assistant prosecutor Robert Moran wrote that Kilpatrick “can reside in a more modest home until he meets his obligations to the court and the city of Detroit.”

Carlisle said today he did not know how the former mayor chose his house. “He liked the house,” he said of Kilpatrick.

Carlisle said it was listed with a Realtor for sale or lease and he is happy to have found someone to live there. The Realtor, Roxann Taylor, confirmed she helped the Kilpatricks find a new home but declined further comment.

Carlisle, who according to an online resume is a Yale-educated corporate turnaround expert and technology entrepreneur, said he did not previously know Kilpatrick. He declined to answer more questions, saying he was in the middle of a golf game.

Neighbors already have noticed the Kilpatricks moving in. There were reports of vans at the home on Saturday and new furniture deliveries.

“He has a six-month lease on a house. That’s my understanding,” said Stuart Wood, president of the local homeowners association. “Our expectation and my expectation is that we will be good neighbors and he will be a good neighbor. Hey, this is Texas. Everybody’s friendly around here.”

Rhonda Krupp, who lives across the street, said today, “I met their children and they are delightful.”

Wood, who also lives across the street but has not yet met the Kilpatricks, sent out an e-mail recently encouraging neighbors to welcome them. He said the street, which has 13 houses, is one of the few gated communites in the area.

“It does give you a little bit of privacy,” Wood said. Kilpatrick’s previous house in Southgate was not gated.

Wood said the residents are “a real close-knit group of people. … I’m looking forward to meeting him and his wife and his children.”

The new Kilpatrick home is less than three miles from the old, and they remain in the same school district, so the three boys will be able to attend the same schools.

Contact JIM SCHAEFER : 313-223-4542 or jschaefer@freepress.com

Subject: Re: Kwame moves into a million dollar mansion Wed Jun 10, 2009 3:56 pm

GoGetEmTigers wrote:: Kilpatricks move into Texas home that dwarfs the Manoogian

By JIM SCHAEFER and M.L. ELRICK • FREE PRESS STAFF WRITERS • June 8, 2009

See Video of the house by clicking headline or here...

Kwame Kilpatrick, who recently claimed that he could spare only $6 a month for restitution to the City of Detroit, moved into a million-dollar home over the weekend that dwarfs the Manoogian Mansion.

At 5,866 square feet, Kilpatrick’s new digs, which he is leasing in tony Southlake, Texas, are nearly 50% larger than the city-owned mansion he used to occupy as Detroit mayor, before the text message scandal cost him his job and his freedom. The Detroit mansion, now vacant, is just 4,000 square feet.

Kilpatrick’s new home is in a gated community, and is listed on Web sites for sale at $1.1 million. Built in 1998, it has five bedrooms, 5½ baths, a game room, a study, a formal dining room and an in-ground pool in the back hugged by a stone patio and pathway.

Jim Carlisle, who owns the home, confirmed today that he leased it to Kilpatrick, but Carlisle would not say how much the former mayor is paying. The Kilpatricks moved in Saturday, leaving their former home in Southlake, where the ex-mayor’s wife, Carlita Kilpatrick, and their three sons have lived since leaving Detroit in December.

Kwame Kilpatrick joined them there after his release from jail in February. Kilpatrick had said he paid $2,700 a month to lease that home.

While it is not known how much the Kilpatricks are paying for the new house, it is more than twice the size of the 2,800-square-foot home they just left.

Kilpatrick is appealing a judge’s order that he pay $6,000 a month to the City of Detroit, saying he has only $6 remaining after expenses such as rent and a $900 a month lease on a new Cadillac Escalade. As part of his sentence in the text message scandal, Kilpatrick was ordered to repay $1 million to the city.

After leaving jail in February, Kilpatrick joined his family in Texas and began working as an account executive for Covisint, a subsidiary of Detroit-based Compuware.

His lawyer on the restitution matter, Michael Alan Schwartz, said this afternoon he did not know about the house move and declined to comment until he speaks with Kilpatrick. Schwartz had announced earlier today that Kilpatrick had paid the remaining $3,500 he owed from his May restitution payment.

If Kilpatrick is paying more for rent now, that surely will rankle prosecutors in Detroit, who already have protested his comfortable Texas lifestyle while Kilpatrick still owes so much money to Detroit.

Maria Miller, spokeswoman for Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy, did not immediately comment.

In a court motion in February, assistant prosecutor Robert Moran wrote that Kilpatrick “can reside in a more modest home until he meets his obligations to the court and the city of Detroit.”

Carlisle said today he did not know how the former mayor chose his house. “He liked the house,” he said of Kilpatrick.

Carlisle said it was listed with a Realtor for sale or lease and he is happy to have found someone to live there. The Realtor, Roxann Taylor, confirmed she helped the Kilpatricks find a new home but declined further comment.

Carlisle, who according to an online resume is a Yale-educated corporate turnaround expert and technology entrepreneur, said he did not previously know Kilpatrick. He declined to answer more questions, saying he was in the middle of a golf game.

Neighbors already have noticed the Kilpatricks moving in. There were reports of vans at the home on Saturday and new furniture deliveries.

“He has a six-month lease on a house. That’s my understanding,” said Stuart Wood, president of the local homeowners association. “Our expectation and my expectation is that we will be good neighbors and he will be a good neighbor. Hey, this is Texas. Everybody’s friendly around here.”

Rhonda Krupp, who lives across the street, said today, “I met their children and they are delightful.”

Wood, who also lives across the street but has not yet met the Kilpatricks, sent out an e-mail recently encouraging neighbors to welcome them. He said the street, which has 13 houses, is one of the few gated communites in the area.

“It does give you a little bit of privacy,” Wood said. Kilpatrick’s previous house in Southgate was not gated.

Wood said the residents are “a real close-knit group of people. … I’m looking forward to meeting him and his wife and his children.”

The new Kilpatrick home is less than three miles from the old, and they remain in the same school district, so the three boys will be able to attend the same schools.

Contact JIM SCHAEFER : 313-223-4542 or jschaefer@freepress.com