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Nearly six years ago, then Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was one of the most sought-after figures at the Democratic National Convention in Boston. This afternoon, Kilpatrick is making his second appearance in a downtown Detroit courtroom to explain why he can't pay the nearly $1 million that he promised taxpayers to resolve a sordid case that effectively ended his political career...
Kilpatrick's fall from grace was fast and hard. In September 2008, the youngest mayor in Detroit's history pled guilty to obstruction of justice and assaulting a police officer. He was sentenced to six months in prison. According to the terms of his probation, Kilpatrick resigned, pledged never again to run for elected office and surrendered his public pensions and law license. He also agreed to pay Wayne County, Michigan, which includes Detroit, a restitution of nearly $1 million. So far, Kilpatrick has paid about $90,000 of that sum. But despite having a $120,000-a-year...
...powerful political families. His mother Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick was until recently chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus. Tall and brawny, he played football at historically black Florida A&M University, studied law and rose quickly as a young representative in Michigan's legislature. By 2001, he was elected Detroit's mayor at age 31, partly by energizing this city's disaffected youth. His flashy suits, diamond-stud earrings and inaugural "club crawls" proclaimed his comfort with being called "America's first hip-hop mayor...
Initially, Kilpatrick maintained the confidence of Detroit's business establishment, extending many of the economic-development projects that were launched by his predecessor, Dennis Archer Sr. Kilpatrick moved thousands off Detroit's bloated job rolls and reduced property taxes to sustain what was left of Detroit's middle class. But Kilpatrick's personal excesses quickly overshadowed his professional success. In 2007, a jury awarded $6.5 million to two Detroit police officers who alleged that they were essentially dismissed for investigating concerns about Kilpatrick and his bodyguards' efforts to conceal his extramarital affairs. Then came a text-messaging scandal, which revealed...
...argues that this game isn't part luck and part skill - only how much of each is involved. So the heads-up play that started at 1 a.m. E.T. on Tuesday and pitted the unassuming Moon against the calculating Cada was apropos. Cada, from the Detroit area, risked alienation from his parents to participate. He cut his poker teeth in online play as a teenager; against his parents' will, he quit college to play cards for a living. But he soon won enough to pay cash for his house and managed to reconcile with Mom and Dad, who were...