King Kwame's Text Messages

I THINK IT TIME TO CLOSE THIS THREAD


BOTH BEATTY AND FATSBY IN JAIL


THANK GOD

Kwame says he wants to leave Michigan



Don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out


AND DON"T COME BACK!

Thursday, February 5, 2009
Kilpatrick takes on 'the Big D' in style
George Hunter, David Josar and Doug Guthrie / The Detroit News

DETROIT -- Kwame Kilpatrick owes the city nearly $1 million in restitution, but some are wondering if he's determined to continue his VIP lifestyle now that he's out of jail.

His wife and children have moved into a Texas enclave considered one of the nation's richest, he was escorted from jail by a phalanx of bodyguards driving flashy SUVs and his mother foot the $13,500 bill for a privately chartered Lear jet to be reunited with his family in suburban Dallas.

"I was proud to pay for my son's flight to begin a new life in Texas," U.S. Rep. Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick said in a statement Wednesday.

No matter who's paying, some Detroiters are upset.

"It's sickening -- this guy cost the city so much money, but he does a few weeks in jail, then he goes off scot-free to go live in a mansion, while the people in Detroit are left to clean up his messes," said southwestern Detroit resident David Francisco, 49.

Over the years, Kilpatrick was paid $1.1 million in salary as mayor, a free home, chauffeurs and few expenses.

Now, neighbors say they've seen Kilpatrick's wife, Carlita, in the Dallas suburb of Southlake, Texas, whose median household income is $173,000. In December, a woman named C.E. Kilpatrick leased a four-bedroom, nearly 3,000 square-foot home with a swimming pool on a thickly wooded half-acre. Rent was listed as $2,950 per month on a real estate Web site.

"I think most people in Detroit would like to live in a place like that," said Francisco.

Kilpatrick had a job interview Wednesday with an undisclosed employer, said his attorney, James C. Thomas. The company's board of directors is expected to vote today on whether to hire the ex-mayor.

Kilpatrick, who served 99 days for three felonies related to the text-message scandal, has paid $20,000 in cash at sentencing and another $6,750 toward his restitution. It's part of a five-year probation that also includes a ban on seeking public office and the forfeiture of his law license.

Still, some, including Detroit resident John Tully, say the former mayor should tone down his lifestyle.

"If he's making $500,000 a year with this new job, then $3,000 a month for a house is nothing," Tully said. "Still it's sending the wrong message because he still owes the city so much."

Nation of Islam security

Despite appearances of high living, not all of Kilpatrick's expenses are coming out of his pocket, as was the case with his private flight.

Kilpatrick's bodyguards, who held back the media throng when he was released from the Wayne County Jail early Tuesday, are being provided free of charge by members of the Nation of Islam, said Malik Shabazz, a longtime Kilpatrick confidant and leader of the New Marcus Garvey Movement/Black Panther Nation.

The Nation of Islam, which also provided security when he was sentenced to jail in September, has helped the former mayor over the years. Its leader, Louis Farrakhan, reportedly visited Kilpatrick in jail, but Shabazz said he doubts Kilpatrick has converted.

"He was always spiritual," Shabazz said. "He would always quote God. He's a believer in God."

The Nation of Islam provided security to Kilpatrick because "he's been receiving death threats, and his family has received death threats," Shabazz said.

Representatives for the Nation of Islam did not return phone calls seeking comment.

Friends remain quiet

Those closest to Kilpatrick remain tight-lipped about any pending interviews or how the family is surviving.

Kandia Milton, a childhood friend and former deputy mayor, declined to discuss the ex-mayor's plans for the future.

DeDan Milton, a brother of Kandia Milton's and another former Kilpatrick appointee who was outside the jail on Tuesday, would only say "the mayor's getting along fine."

Two of Kilpatrick's longtime backers -- Compuware CEO Peter Karmanos and trucking magnate Matty Moroun -- have business interests in Texas, but both denied through representatives they are considering Kilpatrick.

"We wish the mayor well," said Dan Stamper, Moroun's spokesman. "He and his family have been through a lot."

Likewise, former Mayor Dennis Archer, who is on Compuware's board of directors, said Kilpatrick isn't being considered. Ditto for Comerica, Potter's House mega-church and the city of Dallas.

But Kilpatrick needs a job. The former mayor known for custom-made suits and an appetite for luxury has bills to pay.

State records indicate his only registered vehicles are a 2003 Harley Davidson Road King and a 2007 Chrysler Aspen, a car that sells for about $30,000.

If he wanted to continue health care coverage for his family under Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA), he would have to pay for his wife, three children and himself, he'd have to shell out upward of $1,000 a month.

Maurice Wenzell, who moved to Dallas five years ago, said he and his wife have repeatedly seen Carlita Kilpatrick and her three sons at the upscale Central Market in Southlake.

"That is the place to be. Everyone has seen them around," said Wenzell, who noted that Southlake is also home to many active and former Dallas Cowboys football players. "I could see them fitting in well here."

Questions about money

It's entirely possible, however, that the Kilpatricks are living off money the family saved over the years.

Kilpatrick made about $176,000 a year as mayor, had vehicles and drivers supplied by the taxpayers and lived in the Manoogian Mansion, which was furnished, heated, maintained and supplied by the city.

The Kilpatricks recently took a $55,000 loss on the sale of their Florida vacation home, but made $151,500 on two Detroit homes they owned in 2002 and 2000, according to real estate records.

Kilpatrick's latest lawyer, Willie Gary is known as the "The Giant Killer" for suing big companies.

But he usually works on a contingency basis, charging no money to clients unless they win, according to his Web site.

Gary is traveling for several days but is expected to give out a general statement by the end of the week that may address his finances, a spokeswoman said Wednesday.

There are also questions about the cash from his mayoral re-election campaign.

His annual disclosure form, which was due on Monday, has still not been filed, and in 2007, it ended with a balance of $1.3 million.

Kilpatrick's advisers had hinted before that cash could be used to deal with some of the fallout from the text-message scandal.

His wife, Carlita Kilpatrick, worked intermittently.

In 2003, she earned $22,666 for part-time marketing work at the Next Vision Foundation, which was founded by members of her husband's family; and while her husband was still in the legislature, she received $175,000 in state grant money for character education and conflict resolution skills sessions to Detroit students.

Detroit News Staff Writer Leonard N. Fleming contributed to this report. You can reach George Hunter at (313) 222-2134 or ghunter@detnews.com

Why the hell people won't vote his bitch ass mother out of office is beyond me


Or realign the districts so that rotten, fat bitch don't represent Wyandotte and Trashy Park no more

We have no say because all the stupid blacks in Detroit keep putting Butt- Cheeks Kilpatrick back in office

And it is a rotten shame Kwame continues to live the high life while so many people are losing their jobs and homes


I guess Crime really does pay

I think I would be moving out of that crazy city!

GoGetEmTigers wrote:

I think I would be moving out of that crazy city!

Considering Detroit once had nearly 2 million people in the 1950s [ less than 900,000 today]

The smart ones are doing so

gs78 wrote:

GoGetEmTigers wrote:

I think I would be moving out of that crazy city!

Considering Detroit once had nearly 2 million people in the 1950s [ less than 900,000 today]

The smart ones are doing so

I mean Trashy Park.

[quote="GoGetEmTigers"]

gs78 wrote:

GoGetEmTigers wrote:

I think I would be moving out of that crazy city!

Considering Detroit once had nearly 2 million people in the 1950s [ less than 900,000 today]

The smart ones are doing so

I mean Trashy Park.[/quote


They lost population too


Only about 20,000 people left


was once 45 thousand

Maybe 19,999

by next year



If Ilitch raises ticket prices too much


Then I will leave

Thursday, February 12, 2009
Report: Former Mayor Kilpatrick will work for Compuware affiliate
Detroit News staff and wire reports

DETROIT -- Published reports say former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick will accept a job with an affiliate of Detroit-based Compuware, despite a statement last week by ex-mayor and Compuware board member Dennis Archer that the disgraced ex-mayor would not be hired.

Compuware Chairman Peter Karmanos, who decided to move the company headquarters downtown in 1999, before Kilpatrick took office, defended the mayor, even when he was under intense pressure to resign. The company's headquarters building is the linchpin of Campus Martius Park, one of downtown's most successful redevelopment areas.

As recently as August, Karmanos and his wife had dinner with Kwame and Carlita Kilpatrick at the Karmanos' home.

Kilpatrick's wife and children have moved to Dallas, and the ex-mayor was there last week interviewing for job with an undisclosed company.

Compuware affiliate Covisint operates in Texas, developing communications systems for large computer networks.

The company, according to its website, "streamlines and automates business processes, globally connecting business communities, organizations and systems in the manufacturing, healthcare, aerospace, public sector and financial services industries."

After he was freed from a 99-day jail term for lying in a Whistleblowers' trial, Kilpatrick flew on a private jet chartered by his mother to interview for a job in Texas.

Meanwhile, Compuware announced it has laid off 250 employees, or about 4 percent of its worldwide work force of 6,000.

The software and technical services company didn't say where those laid off Tuesday worked, but about 3,300 of its employees have been in downtown Detroit.

Boycott Compuware!

So many honest and hardworking people are losing their jobs

But that rotten no good son of a bitching thief gets employment

Just like so many politicians, who lost elections last November , are getting high paying lobbyist jobs


Makes me sick!

BOYCOTT!

Saturday, February 21, 2009
Kilpatrick lied again, Worthy tells court
Prosecutor wants to block ex-mayor's travel to Texas for orientation.
David Josar / The Detroit News

DETROIT -- Kwame Kilpatrick has a house with a swimming pool and a six-figure job in one of America's richest suburbs. But one person could stand in his way: Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy.

In a court filing made public Friday, Worthy objects to Kilpatrick's bid to travel to Texas for orientation at a Compuware affiliate, claiming he misled court officials to get permission to travel to Dallas this month for a job interview. Worthy also argues that Kilpatrick should begin making payments toward his $1 million restitution in a text message scandal, citing his wife's rental of a home in Southlake, Texas.

"If he cannot afford to pay restitution, how is defendant able to fly by private jet to Texas and afford a large home in an affluent community?" Worthy asked in a court filing. "The defendant's $3,000 monthly rental payment should be substituted for a $3,000 restitution payment. The defendant can reside in a more modest home until he meets his obligations to the court and the city of Detroit."

Kilpatrick's mother, U.S. Rep. Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick, has said she paid for the charter plane that took Kilpatrick from Detroit to Dallas on Feb. 3, after he was sprung from jail. The flight cost about $13,500.

The motion sets up a Tuesday showdown between the former mayor and the prosecutor who led to his downfall. Wayne County Circuit Judge David Groner is set to hear Kilpatrick's motion to travel for orientation at Covisint, a sales job whose $100,000 salary could triple if he meets goals. Kilpatrick may have to return to court again to move to Dallas full-time.

Worthy, who has helped jail Kilpatrick twice for flaunting the justice system, also wants him to take the stand to answer questions about his job interview before he could travel to Texas. In court papers, she claims Kilpatrick and his lawyers repeatedly "misrepresented" the court and prosecutors.

"We will not be fooled again," prosecutors wrote in a four-page motion filed Thursday where they outline instances that information was "misrepresented" by the ex-mayor and his attorneys to the court.

Maria Miller, a spokeswoman for Worthy, would only give a carefully worded statement on the new filing, saying "I can only say we filed a response to the motion for travel."

Two of Kilpatrick's attorneys, James C. Thomas and Gerald Evelyn, did not return calls for comment.

Kilpatrick remains on probation following his release this month after 99 days in jail on three felony counts related to the text message scandal and for assaulting an officer. He pleaded guilty to perjury as it related to the whistle-blowers suit filed by two ex-cops, and he was jailed overnight last summer by a 36th District judge after Kilpatrick violated the terms of his bond when he left Detroit and went to Windsor.

On Friday, Kilpatrick was spotted having lunch at Detroit Fish Market in Harmonie Park, where he was dining with several other people, including his father, Bernard Kilpatrick.

"I'm not saying anything about anything," Kilpatrick said, flashing his smile.

Later Friday, Kilpatrick was in the stands at a PSL girls championship game at the University of Detroit Mercy.

Prosecutors, in their motion, told Groner that he should not hold the hearing unless Kilpatrick attends and gives testimony under oath.

Kilpatrick has had trouble before with following a judge's orders.

Dallas travel scrutinized

Questions have been raised about whether the job interview Kilpatrick claimed was needed in Texas for his job with Covisint, the Compuware subsidiary, was necessary. His wife and three sons had relocated there over the Christmas holiday.

Compuware CEO Peter Karmanos, a supporter and friend of Kilpatrick, had told people for months he was ready to offer Kilpatrick a job.

Worthy alleged Kilpatrick misled the court about why he needed to be in Texas and whether board of directors' approval was needed on his job offer.

"As the old adage goes 'fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me,' " Worthy wrote in the court filling.

The motion notes instances where prosecutors allege Kilpatrick misled the court:

• Kilpatrick's lawyers claimed he was to be interviewed in Dallas and then a board of directors meeting was to occur. Actually, one individual interviewed the ex-mayor in Texas; a second person flew from Detroit to Dallas to interview Kilpatrick; and no board of directors meeting took place.

• Board of directors consent, as Kilpatrick had claimed, was not needed to hire the ex-mayor.

You can reach David Josar at (313) 222-2073 or djosar@detnews.com

GO WORTHY


And it is BS that Kwame is living in a 3,000 dollar a month house


How bout paying that money back you stole

More secrets may be in Kilpatrick, Beatty texts

BY JOE SWICKARD and M.L. ELRICK • FREE PRESS STAFF WRITERS • March 5, 2009

More light could be thrown onto the scandals and investigations roiling Detroit city hall when hundreds of Kwame Kilpatrick's and Christine Beatty's text messages are released as early as noon Monday.

In a sweeping ruling Wednesday, Wayne County Circuit Judge Timothy Kenny said there are no valid legal reasons to keep the text messages -- from the now-completed prosecution of Beatty -- under seal.

The approximately 1,400 messages were submitted by prosecutors to establish they were actually sent by the ex-mayor and his onetime aide with whom he was having an affair.

Some still-secret messages deal with political maneuvering during the Kilpatrick administration, Kenny said. He said other messages are not entitled to secrecy because they may touch upon crimes and fraud.

• TEXTS: Read previously released messages

The judge cited nothing specific Wednesday, but federal investigations are looking into dealings at Cobo Center and the awarding of city contracts, including the Synagro sewage treatment deal.

Lawyers for Beatty and the City of Detroit said they have to decide if they will appeal the ruling. Kilpatrick lawyer James Thomas declined to comment.

Kenny said Kilpatrick's and Beatty's refusal to acknowledge they wrote the messages bars them from now challenging their release on privacy grounds.

The judge also rejected defense claims that the texts were shielded as sensitive government communications, attorney-client conversations or protected by privileges that safeguard conversations between spouses.

Ultimately, Kenny said, the messages -- sent on city-issued pagers by public officials -- were not private at all.
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"The text messages were, in fact, a public record," he said.

Kenny gave attorneys for Kilpatrick, Beatty and the city until Monday to appeal his order before the texts are released.

The hearing stemmed from a request by the Free Press for their release.

The Free Press broke the text-message scandal in January of last year when it revealed the existence of text messages that proved Kilpatrick and Beatty lied at a police whistle-blower trial that cost the city more than $9 million. The pair have since pleaded guilty to felonies and been sentenced to 4 months in jail and other sanctions.

Beatty remains behind bars.

Kilpatrick was released in February and is seeking court permission to relocate to Texas with his family.

Contact JOE SWICKARD at 313-222-8769 or jswickard@freepress

What Beatty, Kilpatrick texts might show

BY M.L. ELRICK • FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER • March 5, 2009

Text messages from Christine Beatty's city-issued pager already have provided vivid peeks at the inner-workings of then-Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's administration. But the 1,400 messages set to be released at noon Monday may contain new revelations, ranging from candid conversations between Kilpatrick and his wife, discussions with city attorneys that Wayne County Circuit Judge Timothy Kenny suggested Wednesday were more about politics than legal matters, and messages that may indicate wrongdoing.

The additional text messages represent only a sliver of the approximately 625,000 messages Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy obtained as part of the investigation she launched after the Free Press used text messages last year to show that Kilpatrick and Beatty lied on the witness stand during a police whistle-blower trial.

Here is how previous text releases have affected the city:

• The text messages the Free Press obtained showed Kilpatrick and Beatty were involved in an affair despite denying it under oath; that they intended to fire Deputy Police Chief Gary Brown, and that they gave inside information on city contracts to Bobby Ferguson, a Kilpatrick friend.

• As part of a Free Press Freedom of Information lawsuit, Wayne County Circuit Judge Robert Colombo Jr. ordered the release of a legal document containing graphic text messages showing Beatty and Kilpatrick had a sexual affair.

• In seeking to expand perjury charges against Kilpatrick, Worthy released text messages showing that Kilpatrick had engaged in affairs with women other than Beatty.

• In response to a Free Press request to release additional texts, Kenny released messages, including texts by Kilpatrick's wife, Carlita, about the never-proven Manoogian Mansion party rumor and texts detailing Kilpatrick and his wife's interest in leasing a Lincoln Navigator for his family.

The Federal Government needs to step in


But Obama won't


Because he protects his fellow black men

Kwame Sucks

And so does Obama