What was Kilpatrick involved with that led to the charges?
Sun Sep 07, 2008 4:03 am
resident
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Re: Obama Supported...Kwame Kilpatrick
This isn't political corruption, though the push and shove was damnable. Obama didn't do it and I'm sure McCain did do it, though several decades ago.
I dunno. The Mayor of Los Angeles is still serving the city and his extramarital affair took place with the Mayor's outside woman, a local television anchorperson, covering the story of 'his affair' and 'cheating on his wife' without even admitting that the other woman was, in fact, her.
Looking after the privacy of your friends is not the same as doing the deed yourself. Was there anything else going on?
_________________ And he said to the lady, "I love the crushed eggs. Are they yours? To which the lady replied, "No. Not the eggs."
He didn't just support someone corrupt, he did it himself.
McCain also supported all the various Republicans who have been indicted over the years, including Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska.
The question is (a) did they support them knowing of the corruption or was it back when no one knew? and (b) Did they continue to support them after they were indicted?
Not that big a deal. We've all been friends and helped out people with bad intentions. The question is if we did that in good knowledge, and if we still supported them if/when we found out about their true intentions. This goes for Obama and McCain.
At that, I don't really see this as "corruption" in the traditional sense, just bad choices and bad circumstances.
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Sun Sep 07, 2008 5:40 pm
mdana
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Re: Obama Supported...Kwame Kilpatrick
The Dark Knight wrote:
As you may know, Kilpatrick resigned on Thursday as part of a plea deal. He pleaded guilty to two counts of obstruction of justice and pleaded no contest to one count of assault.
WTG Obama!
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At the heart of the Kilpatrick case is a hotly disputed account of a supposed party at Manoogian Mansion, the city-owned home on the Detroit River that is the mayor’s official residence. It was there in late 2002, according to court documents, that Strawberry was hired to perform at a raucous party allegedly attended by Kilpatrick, several police officers and “nude exotic dancersâ€Â.
At one point, the court documents allege, Kilpatrick’s wife, Carlita, “arrived at the party unexpectedly and assaulted Tamara Greene and possibly one other dancerâ€Â. Several police officers and ambulance workers have testified that a woman calling herself Tammy Greene received hospital treatment at the time for injuries consistent with an assault.
The mayor, his police chief and numerous other city officials have denied that any such party took place. The city’s chief prosecutor dismissed the claims as “urban legendâ€Â. Yet since Yatooma took up the case last autumn, several police officers have come forward to claim that they were intimidated into silence about parties they knew to have taken place at the mayor’s home.
“I was ordered by my supervisors to keep my mouth shut and say that there never was any party,†declared Officer Tony Davis in a letter to Ella Bully-Cummings, the Detroit police chief, in March.
Six months after the supposed party, Greene, 27, was shot 18 times as she drove to her boyfriend’s home. She became the 113th of Detroit’s 366 murder victims that year.
The police lieutenant initially in charge of the murder investigation quickly concluded that Greene had been specifically targeted by a contract killer. Lieutenant Alvin Bowman has since testified in a sworn affidavit that his attempts to investigate reports about the party and Carlita Kilpatrick’s alleged involvement were blocked by the mayor and his staff.
“Every witness . . . felt intimidated against coming forward,†said Bowman. “My squad would have solved Ms Greene’s murder but for the interference [of officials].â€Â
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