GUILTY MI - Felony charges against Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick

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December 10, 2013 at 6:51 am

Kwame Kilpatrick could find out today where he'll spend time in prison

Robert Snell /The Detroit News

Detroit — Former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick could learn Tuesday where he will spend the next 28 years in prison and get hit with a $4.6 million bill stemming from the City Hall corruption conviction.

U.S. District Judge Nancy Edmunds will decide restitution during a 1:30 p.m. hearing and could recommend that Kilpatrick be sent to a federal prison in Texas — as requested by the former mayor, whose wife, three children and extended family live in the Longhorn state. Kilpatrick, who is being temporarily housed at a federal prison in Milan, is not expected to attend the hearing...

From The Detroit News: http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20131210/METRO01/312100042#ixzz2n575FfMM
 
Kwame Kilpatrick on the hook for $4.5M restitution

Judge orders ex-Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick to pay $4.5M to city, $195K to IRS

Published On: Dec 10 2013 04:44:50 PM EST

DETROIT -
Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick must pay $4.5 million to the water department, a conservative estimate of the profits enjoyed by a contractor who got excavation work through corruption at city hall, a judge ruled Tuesday.

The restitution order is one of the last acts in Kilpatrick's case. In October, he was sentenced to 28 years in federal prison for extortion, bribery, conspiracy and other crimes during his years in office...

http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/...ion/-/1719418/23417764/-/hduhdaz/-/index.html
 
Kwame Kilpatrick moves to Oklahoma prison

Kilpatrick begins serving prison sentence at Oklahoma City Federal Transfer Center

Published On: Jan 15 2014 10:52:06 AM EST Updated On: Jan 15 2014 11:00:02 AM EST

Kwame Kilpatrick has begun serving his prison term in Oklahoma at the Oklahoma City Federal Transfer Center.

Kilpatrick's scheduled release date is August 2037.

The former Detroit mayor was sentenced in October of last year to 28 years in prison...

http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/...ison/-/1719418/23939926/-/uqtxd9/-/index.html
 
September 4, 2014 at 1:36 pm

Kilpatrick asks appeals court to vacate his conviction

Robert Snell/The Detroit News

Detroit — Former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick asked a federal appeals court to vacate his conviction late Wednesday and order a new trial — nearly one year after he was sentenced to 28 years in prison, one of the longest prison sentences ever handed down to a corrupt politician...

From The Detroit News: http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20140904/METRO01/309040070#ixzz3CRTUV4xA
 
Kwame Kilpatrick loses appeal of conviction

Bobby Ferguson also loses appeal

Author: Local 4 - ClickOnDetroit news staff, local4@clickondetroit.com

Published On: 17 m Updated 7 m

DETROIT -
Former Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick has lost his appeal of his conviction on federal corruption charges.

A Michigan district court heard the appeal from Kilpatrick's counsel. The 6th Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati, Ohio then ruled the convictions and sentences of Kilpatrick and Bobby Ferguson are affirmed, or upheld...

http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/kwame-kilpatrick-loses-appeal-of-conviction/34720798

http://www.detroitnews.com/story/ne.../08/14/kilpatrick-loses-appeals-bid/31719019/
 
Kwame Kilpatrick asks appeals court again for new trial

Charles E. Ramirez, The Detroit News 12:15 a.m. EDT September 21, 2015

It looks like former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick has adopted the old adage “if at first you don’t succeed ...”

A little over a month after a panel of federal judges denied Kilpatrick’s request for a new trial and upheld his racketeering conviction and 28-year prison sentence, his attorney filed a petition to have the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals’ entire bench rehear his case.

Harold Gurewitz, Kilpatrick’s attorney filed the petition for rehearing “en banc” with the federal court in Cincinnati. En banc means Gurewitz is asking the case be heard before all of the court’s 23 judges...

http://www.detroitnews.com/story/ne...atrick-asks-appeals-court-new-trial/72539018/
 
Kwame Kilpatrick loses appeal for new trial, again

Imprisoned Detroit mayor loses another appeal

Author: Local 4 - ClickOnDetroit news staff, local4@clickondetroit.com

DETROIT -
Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick has lost another appeal for a new trial.

A three-judge panel at the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals again upheld the corruption conviction and 28-year prison sentence for Kilpatrick...

http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/kwame-kilpatrick-loses-appeal-for-new-trial-again/35982202
 
Supreme Court rejects Kwame Kilpatrick’s new trial bid

Jennifer Chambers, The Detroit News 9:59 a.m. EDT June 27, 2016

The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected disgraced former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick’s appeal of his public corruption conviction, putting a final end to Kilpatrick’s bid to overturn his 28-year prison sentence.

Kilpatrick, 46, was convicted of using his position as mayor of Detroit and state House representative to execute a wide-ranging racketeering conspiracy involving extortion, bribery and fraud.

The high court issued its decision on Kilpatrick’s case along with dozens of others Monday without comment...

http://www.detroitnews.com/story/ne...6/27/kwame-kilpatrick-supreme-court/86426208/
 
US Supreme Court denies appeal from former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick

Kilpatrick convicted of rigging contracts, taking bribes

By Halston Herrera - Digital news editor

Posted: 9:47 AM, June 27, 2016
Updated: 10:45 AM, June 27, 2016

DETROIT - The U.S. Supreme Court has declined a request by former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick to overturn his corruption conviction and 28-year prison sentence.

The appeal was filed in January. The order denying it was issued Monday...

http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/...former-detroit-mayor-kwame-kilpatricks-appeal
 
Federal judge has no regrets about Kilpatrick trial

Robert Snell, The Detroit News 9:26 a.m. EDT June 28, 2016

Detroit — The federal judge who sentenced former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick to 28 years in prison has no regrets but said Monday she feels bad for Kilpatrick’s family.

In her first interview since the Kilpatrick trial, U.S. District Judge Nancy Edmunds reflected on the high-profile case Monday hours after the Supreme Court rejected the former mayor’s attempt to secure a new trial and overturn the 2013 racketeering conspiracy conviction.

Edmunds, 68, talked about overseeing what she called a stressful, significant case, reflected on the lingering disappointment of Kilpatrick’s tenure and the impact of a corrupt era that preceded Detroit’s descent into bankruptcy...

http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/detroit-city/2016/06/28/kwame-kilpatrick-judge/86456802/

Kwame reaped what he sowed. He's one of those people that I'd say is too smart for his own good. Kilpatrick always believed he was above the law and that rules didn't apply to him. The former Mayor will never admit to wrongdoing that bankrupted the City of Detroit. :moo:
 
Obama commutes more sentences but not Kwame Kilpatrick

Christine Ferretti and Jennifer Chambers The Detroit News

Published 3:49 p.m. ET Jan. 19, 2017 | Updated 37 minutes ago

On his final day in the White House, President Barack Obama commuted the prison sentences of 330 people including five from Michigan — but Detroit’s disgraced ex-mayor Kwame Kilpatrick wasn’t one of them.

Since the fall, nearly 28,000 supporters signed an e-petition urging Obama to pardon the former mayor or shorten his term in federal prison for public corruption.

Kilpatrick, 46, was convicted in 2013 of using his position as mayor of Detroit and state House representative to execute a wide-ranging racketeering conspiracy involving extortion, bribery and fraud...

http://www.detroitnews.com/story/ne...obama-commutes-sentences-kilpatrick/96790582/
 
Kilpatrick tries again to overturn conviction

Robert Snell, The Detroit News Published 11:31 a.m. ET July 5, 2017 | Updated 11:31 a.m. ET July 5, 2017

Detroit – Former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick revived his bid for freedom Wednesday, asking a federal judge to vacate his racketeering conviction and set aside a 28-year prison sentence, saying there was no corruption during his scandal-plagued tenure.

“There was no ‘pay to play,’ nor any evidence to suggest it,” Kilpatrick wrote. “The theater surrounding the trial, and the misinformation and wrong instructions given to the jury, created an environment of unfairness and injustice. (I) did not receive a fair trial, and was convicted of activities that were not unlawful.”

Kilpatrick, 47, made the request Wednesday to his trial judge, U.S. District Judge Nancy Edmunds, 13 months after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected his appeal...

http://www.detroitnews.com/story/ne...ick-racketeering-conviction-appeal/103438690/

:rolleyes:
 
Motion included within article:

Kwame Kilpatrick files motion to vacate prison sentence

By John Steckroth - Editor

Posted: 12:37 PM, July 05, 2017

DETROIT - Former Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick filed a motion last week to overturn his convictions and set aside his prison sentence.

The motion was entered Wednesday saying the court had made several errors, many similar to the issues in his last appeal before the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The court upheld the corruption convictions.

Kilpatrick, 47, was sentenced to a prison term of 28 years in prison back in 2013 and ordered to pay $1,637,087 in restitution. Kilpatrick told the court in February that he doesn’t believe that he should have to pay because it’s impossible to calculate the amount of money he took from taxpayers...

http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/kwame-kilpatrick-files-motion-to-vacate-prison-sentence
 
God bless America, when will this person STOP trying to get out of his sentence?
 
Responsibility. He should take some. Genuine responsibility. Remorse (and not for himself). Until then, zero compassion.
 
Kilpatrick: I tried to beat up my lawyer

Robert Snell, The Detroit News Published 6:53 p.m. ET July 13, 2017 | Updated 6:53 p.m. ET July 13, 2017

Detroit — Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick claimed in a court filing Thursday that he tried to assault his lawyer during an office fight on the eve of his landmark racketeering trial.

Defense lawyers denied Kilpatrick’s allegations about a heated disagreement inside his legal team’s office five years ago, a fight that Kilpatrick says included him chasing his lawyer around a conference room table.

Kilpatrick made the claim in a 38-page court filing to illustrate the broken relationship with his defense team, headed by lawyer James C. Thomas, in hopes of overturning his racketeering conviction and 28-year prison sentence. The attempt is based, in part, on claims that Thomas had a conflict of interest.

Tension between Kilpatrick — who is 6-feet-4-inches tall and weighed as much as 310 pounds before the trial — and his legal team culminated on Aug. 14, 2012, after the former Detroit mayor tried to fire Thomas...

http://www.detroitnews.com/story/ne...07/13/kilpatrick-tried-beat-lawyer/103678560/
 
‘Broke’ Kilpatrick ordered to pay Detroit $1.5M

Robert Snell, The Detroit News Published 5:47 p.m. ET Aug. 31, 2017 | Updated 10:08 a.m. ET Sept. 1, 2017

Detroit — A federal judge Thursday ordered former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick to pay more than $1.5 million to the city’s water department as restitution from the City Hall corruption scandal.

The city, however, is unlikely to collect. Kilpatrick recently said he has 96 cents in the prison bank account and is locked up until 2037.

The order addresses one of the lingering issues stemming from the landmark trial that ended with Kilpatrick convicted of running a criminal enterprise out of City Hall that included steering rigged water and sewer contracts to buddy Bobby Ferguson...

http://www.detroitnews.com/story/ne...lpatrick-restitution-order-detroit/105162192/

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Kilpatrick loses bid to shed $1.5M restitution bill

Robert Snell, The Detroit News Published 3:54 p.m. ET Sept. 25, 2017 | Updated 3:57 p.m. ET Sept. 25, 2017

Detroit – Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick lost a bid Monday to shed a $1.5 million restitution bill to the city’s water department stemming from the City Hall corruption scandal.

U.S. District Judge Nancy Edmunds refused to reconsider the restitution order, writing that Kilpatrick rehashed old arguments and failed to show the order was defective.

The judge’s order preserves one of the largest bills awaiting Kilpatrick, 47, once he is released from federal prison in August 2037...

http://www.detroitnews.com/story/ne...patrick-loses-bid-restitution-bill/105990288/

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