King Kwame's Text Messages

He's such a butt munch and an
I can't believe some people are still on his side!!! They even were saying something on the news again about him using the city's money to charter a plane or something. Do they not understand that he's continuously taking their desperately needed money?????

I don't know how they can be so blind, and his stupid lawyer thinks everything is great and told Kwame he must not step down or people will think he is guilty, duh, he is guilty, just listen to the tapes you lawyer.

GO KYM! See that justice is DONE!

Kwame gonna be found found not guilty; You Just Watch!


Money and Power talk!


Two sets of law; One for them; the other for us!

Lucky it is going to be in a level of court that will include residents of Wayne Co., not just Detroit!

GoGetEmTigers wrote:

Lucky it is going to be in a level of court that will include residents of Wayne Co., not just Detroit!

Go wayne county residents!!! lol...

Monday, March 24, 2008
Detroit mayoral scandal
Mayor Kilpatrick booked on charges of perjury, obstruction, misconduct
Robert Snell and Ron French / The Detroit News

DETROIT -- Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was charged Monday with eight felonies stemming from a text message scandal that has engulfed his administration and the city he serves.

The charges were the latest and most severe blow to the charismatic but scandal-plagued politician, a man who rode into office in 2002 as the youngest mayor in Detroit history and is now the only Detroit mayor to face criminal charges while still in office.

By afternoon, Kilpatrick and former chief of staff, Christine Beatty, were booked. Kilpatrick faces eight counts; Beatty seven. The charges include perjury, obstruction of justice and misconduct in office. Each charge carries a maximum sentence between five years and 15 years in prison.

Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy announced her decision to charge Kilpatrick at a morning press conference.

"Our investigation has clearly shown that public dollars were used, people's lives were ruined, the justice system was severely mocked and the public trust trampled on," she said. "This is as far from being a private matter as one can get."

Kilpatrick could go to prison if convicted. He can only be removed from office if he is convicted of a felony, and he vowed Monday to retain his position.

Kilpatrick held a press conference at 1 p.m. with his lawyer at this side.

"He will be exonerated of each and every one of the charges," said Dan Webb, a former U.S. Attorney in Chicago, who is Kilpatrick's lead trial lawyer.

At about 3:30 p.m., Beatty showed up at a Wayne County Sheriff Department road patrol and investigation center in Westland, spokesman John Roach said.

Three black Expeditions with tinted windows and many men with earpieces entered the sheriff's road patrol division in Westland about at 4:55 p.m., with news helicopters circling over them. They departed about 5:15 p.m.

The Wayne County Sheriff Department released booking pictures of Kilpatrick and Beatty at 5:15 p.m.

Kilpatrick and Beatty will be arraigned Tuesday at 1:30 p.m. in 36th District Court.

By late afternoon, state Senate Majority Leader Mike Bishop, R-Rochester, called for Kilpatrick to resign.

"Too many things are at stake: the revitalization of the core business district, the creation of new jobs, safe and productive learning environments for the children, safety of families, the fundamental sense of trust and confidence our citizens have for their government."

"We simply cannot afford to let it all slip away under this cloud of controversy," he added. "Now that the prosecutor has officially begun criminal proceedings, there simply are no further options for the Mayor, other than to step aside and to handle this matter straightforwardly and directly as a private citizen."

This morning, Worthy, who said her investigators reviewed more than 40,000 pages of documents and interviewed many witnesses, also blasted unnamed lawyers for hindering the investigation and said that city documents had been lost or destroyed.

Beatty's attorney Mayer Morganroth called Worthy's news conference and the resulting charges against his client "inappropriate."

He said her comments were "an opening argument and could possibly taint a prospective jury pool."

Morganroth said he talked to Beatty this morning but would not disclose the nature of their conversation.

Worthy's announcement takes the text-message scandal, once relegated to civil court and accusations of privacy and freedom of the press, into a criminal matter that could send the mayor and Beatty to prison. A perjury conviction can bring a prison term of up to 15 years.

The flirtatious text messages point to an affair between Kilpatrick and Beatty in 2002 and 2003, which both had denied under oath when they testified at the police whistle-blower trial in 2007. The messages also suggest former Detroit Deputy Police Chief Gary Brown had been fired, which Kilpatrick and Beatty had denied under oath.

"Even children know that lying is wrong," Worthy said at the press conference. "Lying (in court under oath) cannot be tolerated even if a judge and jury see through it."

Worthy said there are other potential defendants but that obstacles put in place by those unnamed lawyers has hindered the investigation.

"So we will continue our investigation into their activities," she said.

She also said she has talked to the U.S. Attorney's office but would not elaborate.

Worthy accused Kilpatrick and Beatty of not only lying during last year's whistle-blower trial but repeatedly in sworn statements given dating back to 2003 regarding Brown's firing.

One perjury charge against Beatty was filed because she lied about knowing anything about the mayor's philandering, Worthy said.

Kilpatrick faces a total of eight counts, including one count each of conspiracy to obstruct justice and obstruction of justice, both of which are five-year felonies. He is charged with two counts of misconduct in office, two counts of perjury in a court proceeding and two counts of perjury other than a court proceeding. Those charges are 15-year felonies.

Beatty faces one count each of conspiracy to obstruct justice, obstruction of justice and misconduct in office. In addition, she is charged with two counts each of perjury in a court proceeding, a 15-year felony, and perjury other than a court proceeding, also a 15-year felony. She resigned in February and has been looking for work since.

Worthy's investigation stemmed from the aftermath of the city's decision to settle claims made by three former Detroit police officers, two of whom had won a $6.5 million whistle-blower verdict against the city last September after they claimed they were punished for investigating claims against the mayor and his bodyguards.

Former Deputy Chief Gary Brown said he was fired after investigating claims by Harold Nelthrope, an officer who said he feared for his life after he passed on concerns about the mayor's bodyguards.

After the trial, Mike Stefani, one of the officers' attorneys, obtained a copy of the text messages sent and received from Beatty's city-issued SkyTel pager. He had asked for them during the preparation for the trial but did not receive them.

During negotiations over his attorney fees, Stefani told one of Kilpatrick's city-paid lawyers that he had the messages and was going to tell the trial judge. That information spurred the lawyers to quickly reach a settlement on the case a little more than a month after Kilpatrick had vowed to appeal.

As part of that settlement, the officers got a total of $8.4 million and Stefani was required to turn over all copies of the text messages to the mayor's attorney -- and agree never to talk about them.

When the city council approved the settlement, however, it was not told about the text messages or the secret deal meant to hide them from public view.

Then in January, published excerpts of the text messages strongly contradicted Kilpatrick and Beatty's testimony that they did not have a romantic relationship and did not fire Brown.

Detroit News reporter Mike Wilkinson contributed to this story.

I'd really like to see the defense's arguments against EVERY SINGLE ONE of these charges! There are just too many for him to handle and still "be" mayor!!

jerk!

for playing the race card and hurting the poor and needy!

DUMBASS HEAD!!

(okay, I feel better now!)

oops, one more:

BE A MAN AND ACCEPT RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOUR ACTIONS!!

Kwame gonna beat the rap; Just like OJ Simpson, Michael Jackson and Kobe Bryant.


Amazing how if he is convicted of all the charges, he could recieve more time in prison than some people that get convicted of rape, murder or molestation.

Bad thing about it is, they explained even if he was convicted of all counts, they would all run concurrent (at the same time) so maybe 15-20 years!

*whew* at least I vented!

laprimamirala wrote:

*whew* at least I vented!

Sometimes ya just gotta vent!!! They say it's healthier than keeping it in, lol, I must be pretty healthy :haha:
So and from me too!!!!

There are people that kill and rape and molest that don't get 15-20 years.

I hate Kwame; He is a thug and a disgrace and that bitch Granholm should remove him from office.

However, I have a problem with people being sentenced to long prison terms because they lied under oath or impended an investigation.


We let violent criminals out early on parole because we have no room in our prisons!


I say a huge fine for Kwame, probation, community service and remove him from public Office and ban him from seeking it again

Because if not, people in Detroit will put him right back in office !


The more someone steals; the more popular they are!

Coleman Young did it for over 20 years and now we have Shug Kilpatrick!


Detroiters never learn!

BAAAAD BOY!

Kwame is a disgrace

i'd post more puke on his& her pictures but that gets old....

Puke is too good for them

okay, how about the other end!

That works!

Send them my dog poop!

lord knows we have enough in our yard!

Put it to good use

would love to! except I would be thrown in jail quicker than this LOSER...