Detroit — Federal officials are preparing felony charges against former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and his father, business consultant Bernard N. Kilpatrick, The Detroit News has learned. (Never fear kwame, all you need is one black juror up there and you’ll be skating off scott free, like always, back to your mansion in Texas.)
For at least five years, the FBI and the U.S. Attorney’s Office have been investigating an alleged “pay to play” system at City Hall under Kilpatrick and allegations that contractors wanting City Hall business were directed to hire the former mayor’s father as a consultant.
Now there are new allegations that former Cobo Center contractor Karl Kado, who has been cooperating with the FBI since 2005, not only paid close to $300,000 to the mayor’s father but made about $100,000 in illegal cash payments directly to the former mayor.
The expected federal charges are separate from courtroom wrangling in an unrelated state case that has landed Kilpatrick in the headlines in recent months. Kilpatrick served 99 days in jail in 2008 and 2009 after pleading guilty to testifying falsely at a police whistle-blower trial and is now struggling to make $1 million in ordered restitution payments and facing the prospect of more jail time. As early as this week, Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy is expected to issue a warrant charging Kilpatrick with violating the terms of his probation after he fell short on a court-ordered $79,000 payment on Friday.
James C. Thomas, a Detroit attorney representing Kwame Kilpatrick, said it was news to him that Kado told investigators he made payments directly to the former mayor.
“I would be highly skeptical at this late date,” Thomas said.
“I have no knowledge that he is charged,” Thomas said of Kwame Kilpatrick. “I am aware of what I read in the newspapers, and I would be foolish not to consider the fact that the government is investigating him in light of my experience with them and what I have seen that they have done in relation to the Civic Fund and all the other things.”
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“They were extremely close almost to the extent that they were in business together,” Tank said of Kado and Bernard Kilpatrick. “They even vacationed together in Las Vegas.”
Pavledes sat beside former Mayor Kilpatrick on a shuttle bus ride when city of Detroit officials visited the Super Bowl in New Orleans in 2002 in preparation for Detroit hosting the event in 2006, Tank said.
When Pavledes began discussing with Kilpatrick business ideas related to the Detroit Super Bowl, the mayor told him all such proposals should go through his father, Tank said.
David Steingold, a Detroit attorney who has represented clients linked to the corruption scandal, said people should not interpret the amount of time that has lapsed since the alleged wrongdoing to mean that charges will never be brought.
“I would never be one to rush the federal government,” Steingold said. “These guys know what they’re doing and they’re going to make sure all their ducks are in order before they bring the kind of indictment that would cause the type of sensation an indictment against those guys would bring.”
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Where there is incompetence and power there is always corruption.
Like I said in a recent post I made, niggers stick together, like shit sticks to your ass if you leave it there too long. The FBI can’t even nail this jigaboo because of the incompetant fucks running Detroit.
This makes me sick to my stomach, especially after hearing Tiger Wood’s boo hoo BS story of how he has some “hypersexuality disorder”. No, it’s called I gotta stick MUHDICK in every fucking thing that walks. Fucking Monkey…
Let’s not get our hopes up about this nig nog ending up in prison…remember he got away with murder. All niggers in the USA need an EBM beat down on a weekly basis to keep them in order.
If there ever was one person who should be cloned on a mass scale, it would have to be Tom Slick, aka Epic Beard Man.
If there was a clone of EBM on every city bus, there would never be any more TNB on any city bus.
Call the amber lamps!! ^_^
nothing niggers do surprises me, put niggers in charge of anything that has to do with money and watch it disappear.
AFFIRMATIVE ACTION IN ACTION!!
Stop assumming that niggers are human. They are slightly more evoled than orang-o-tangs. In this context they are wonderful. Filthy goddamn apes.
Make Way for DUKE
i nees da amberlamps…