Now It Is Detroit's Turn
Now It Is Detroit's Turn
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#1Now It Is Detroit's Turn
Posted: 3/24/08 at 6:37pm
The mayor of Detroit is in hot water for sexual misconduct & perjury
Wonder who is next?
#2re: Now It Is Detroit's Turn
Posted: 3/24/08 at 7:07pmWell, Kwame's always been in hot water for something. I'm not so sure it's a trend, as it just happened to nationally surface around the same time. It's definitely been public knowledge for a while.
Yawper
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/13/04
#2re: Now It Is Detroit's Turn
Posted: 3/24/08 at 7:39pm
This saga with the Mayor has been going on since 2003, it's just that formal charges were filed today. Spitzer's case has nothing on dramaKwame's. A lot of city lawyers and other officials could go down with Kwame M. Kilpatrick. The county prosecutor indicated she has been in contact with the US attorney's office regarding her investigation. The name of the state's Attorney General has been thrown around a lot in the public grapevine and a little in the media and the Kwamemommy is US Representative Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick, current Chair of the Congressional Black Caucus.
The Mayor's lead attorney is high profile Daniel Webb ~ $700/hr billing. Everyone has been asking how he's being paid and who's paying him since he's waaaay over Kwame's budget and is the most recent of a number of high cost lawyers.
Kwame's already cost the city millions in taxpayer money via lawsuits and a suit asking for $150 million is still pending.
#3re: Now It Is Detroit's Turn
Posted: 3/24/08 at 8:18pmevery Mayor of Detroit since I first moved there in 1989 was a crook in one way or another....nothing surprises me anymore.
Yawper
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/13/04
#4re: Now It Is Detroit's Turn
Posted: 3/24/08 at 8:20pmDennis Archer was a stand up guy, not a crook. Too bad he wasn't in office longer but he had bigger fish to fry.
#5re: Now It Is Detroit's Turn
Posted: 3/24/08 at 8:28pmtrue, I keep forgetting about him.
Yawper
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/13/04
#6re: Now It Is Detroit's Turn
Posted: 3/24/08 at 9:30pmThe sad thing is that the city had been making a bit of progress until this sh*t hit the fan. Now, if things continue to fall apart because he won't step down, receivership will be more likely. If the city loses the pending $150 million case receivership's a virtual certainty.
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