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Kwame Kilpatrick. The Kilpatrick and Beatty text-messaging scandal was a political sex scandal in the United States emerging from a whistleblower lawsuit involving former Detroit Police chief Gary Brown, Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and his former chief of staff and paramour Christine Beatty.
The text messages appear to contradict testimony that Kilpatrick and Beatty gave at a trial in 2007 in regards to whether they had an affair and had fired an officer for investigating the mayor's behavior. The City of Detroit settled the lawsuit for $8.4 million based on the recommendation of Kilpatrick and the City of Detroit law department. [1]
Kwame Malik Kilpatrick (born June 8, 1970) is an American former politician and convicted felon who served as the 72nd mayor of Detroit from 2002 to 2008. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously represented the 9th district in the Michigan House of Representatives from 1997 to 2002.
In 2013, Kwame Kilpatrick was convicted of numerous fraud charges stemming from his time as the mayor of Detroit. He was granted clemency in 2021. Memphis nonprofit taps ex-Detroit mayor ...
The Free Press steered away from the 8-Mile angle but made it clear Young had ordered criminals to leave Detroit. Mayor Coleman Young enters his office for the first time on Jan. 3, 1974 at the ...
DETROIT — The voice of ex-Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick now fills Michigan’s airwaves, praising the man who freed him from prison: former President Donald Trump.. The one-minute spot, paid ...
Christine Rowland Beatty (born May 1970) served as the Chief of Staff from 2002 to 2008 to Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick.. In January 2008, Beatty resigned amid an emerging political sex scandal and criminal charges of perjury related to a whistleblower trial for lying under oath about her extramarital affair with Kilpatrick.
Detroit City Council President Mary Sheffield says she's still exploring whether to run for mayor, but the money says her mind is already made up. If money talks, Mary Sheffield is serious about ...