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An attorney for Compuware Corp. testified Tuesday that ex-Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick did not sign a promissory note on a $240,000 loan until IRS and federal agents asked to see the documents.
A lawyer for Detroit's former mayor says his client's up to date — and even early — with monthly restitution payments in the criminal case that drove him from office.
Christine Beatty had been one of the most powerful women in Detroit city government.
An attorney for the former top aide and lover of ex-Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick has filed a motion disputing the date of her release from jail.
Former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick is out of jail. His ex-lover and top aide, Christine Beatty, still has weeks behind bars. But their text messages to one another — the source of their political implosion and Detroit's global embarrassment — continue to hit the public.
Ex-NBA star Dave Bing scored big on his initial foray into politics, beating a field of 15 candidates in the first leg of an election to complete the term of Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, who was brought down by a text-messaging sex scandal.
The head of a computer software company defended the hiring of former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick as an account executive Friday, saying the convicted felon is "uniquely qualified" to sell high-tech services in the health care field.
The former top aide and ex-lover of disgraced ex-Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick followed her old boss to jail Tuesday, the last step in a criminal case that shook up Detroit politics for a year after romantic text messages between the pair made headlines.
Stoic and publicly silent through months of a sex scandal, the woman whose relationship with former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick led to his downfall fought tears Monday as she pleaded guilty and admitted to lying under oath.
Kwame Kilpatrick, whose promising career as Detroit mayor was derailed in part by a torrid affair with an ex-top aide, was unable to kiss goodbye the one woman who stood beside him throughout a sex-and-text scandal: his wife.
A court on Thursday released more sexually explicit text messages between the city's former mayor and his ex-chief of staff, just days before Kwame Kilpatrick goes to jail for lying about their affair.
This downtrodden and scandal-scarred city's new mayor called on residents Friday to work hard, work together and — name-checking a favorite sci-fi series — to "boldly go where no one has gone before."
The Detroit City Council says a special election will be held next year to fill the balance of Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's term.
With just under two weeks until disgraced Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick steps down as part of a plea deal in two criminal cases, his successor is putting his own mark on the position of leader of the nation's 11th largest city.
The man who will succeed Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick has had months to prepare for the possibility of taking over as head of the nation's 11th largest city, and said last week that he was ready for the job.
Only hours after agreeing to resign and serve time in jail as part of plea deal, Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick expressed regret for the scandal that has engulfed the city — and left the door open for a return to public life.
Gov. Jennifer Granholm and Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick come from the same powerful Democratic political machine, yet they have had a strained relationship for years.
A judge on Monday left the terms of Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's bail on assault charges in effect at least through the middle of the week, making it unlikely the mayor can attend this week's Democratic National Convention.
Desperate to save his political life, Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick is suing to stop Gov. Jennifer Granholm from holding an extraordinary hearing next week that could lead to his eviction from office for misconduct.
A few hours before Kwame Kilpatrick's televised apology for the scandal over his exchange of sexual text messages with a top aide, the Rev. Horace Sheffield III led a few dozen very vocal people in a march outside city hall in support of the mayor.
A judge ruled Friday that there's enough evidence for Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick to stand trial on two felony assault charges stemming from a confrontation with two investigators.
Moments after a judge ruled that Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick could be released from jail if he pays a $50,000 bond, Michigan's attorney general announced he was charging the mayor with two felony assault charges stemming from a confrontation between Kilpatrick and a sheriff's detective.
For anyone keeping score, the leader of the nation's 11th-largest city now faces 10 felony charges in two separate cases.
Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick will spend the night in jail after a judge ruled he violated the terms of his bond in his perjury case by making a business trip to Canada and not informing the court.
A detective working a criminal case against Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick said coincidence led him to a house to try to deliver a subpoena.
Detroit Mayor Ordered JailedDETROIT — A judge ordered Mayor Kwame M. Kilpatrick to the county jail on Thursday for violating the terms of his bond by traveling to Canada last month without court approval.
The Outrage Cometh, MaybeUntil this morning, I thought Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick (D) of Detroit was a lucky man - why? - because he still has his job, at least for now. Earlier this month, New York Governor Eliot Spitzer (D), resigned his post as Governor effective Monday, March 17.
Houses selling for pennies on the dollar in DetroitJob losses, a moribund real estate market and rising home-financing costs have made the Motor City the national leader in foreclosures. ...even the fast-talking auctioneer was feeling the stress....
Nearly $100,000 in donations to Sen. Carl Levin raise questions over casinoOn March 30, 2007, U.S. Sen. Carl Levin's (D-MI) campaign received more than 100 contributions and nearly $97,000, according to filings with the Federal Elections Commission.
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