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Kwame Kilpatrick Crimes and Punishment.
Kwame Kilpatrick was elected Mayor of Detroit at the age of 31 which made him the youngest person holding the position in the history of the city. Kwame was a charismatic, intelligent, savvy and ambitious young man with great potential and future ahead of him. During the inauguration ceremony he was singing on the stage, “Together we stand, divided we fall; let’s build a bridge, tear down the wall” [1]. Instead Kilpatrick tore down the entire city. He stole from the citizens he voted for and used his position to make money illegally. Extortion, fraud, bribery, conspiracy are among the crimes that involve 32 more people besides Kilpatrick himself. [2] In 2008 Kilpatrick resigned and was charged
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The biggest factor in the settlement was the evidence against Kilpatrick and his former Chieft of Staff, Chistine Beatty, obtained by the officer's lawyer, Mike Stefani. He subpoena the phone and text messaging records from Skytel. The messages detailed their sexual relationship, indicated of Mayor misappropriating funds and arranging expense romantic getaways with Beatty. The evidence contradicted testimony that both Kilpatrick and Beatty gave at trial regarding the intimate relationship and ouster of Brown. [9] Under the Michigan Freedom of Information Act the Detroit Free press requested a release of all the settlement-related documents in 2008. This led to the criminal charges against Kwame Kilpatric and Christine Beatty. In March 2008 they were charged with misconduct in the office, conspiracy, obstruction of justice and perjury.[10]. Misconduct in office is a commission of an unlawful act within the official capacity. It carries a maximum sentence of life imprisonment for the public office employees/ Conspiracy is the agreement between two or more people to commit a crime. Obstruction of justice may be an attempt to hide and not disclose an importance piece of evidence (discovery), apprehension or punishment of somebody who committed a crime. It sometimes includes bribery, murder or physical harm to the key witness. Oftentimes, obstruction of justice and perjury go hand in hand, as perjury is providing false information under
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After hearing all testimonies and seeing all evidence, Kilpatrick was offered a plea deal in the end which he accepted, pleading guilty to two counts of obstruction of justice and assault. He was ordered to serve four months in jail, pay up to $1 million in restitution, surrender his license to practice law, and serve five years’ probation. This sentence ended his term as Mayor of Detroit in September 2008, and Kilpatrick also agreed he wouldn’t run for office during his five year probation. The deal meant that he was to turn over his state pension, these charges were also brought in with the other eight with Kym Worthy’s.
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let's go back in time to the island of kahoolawe before the bombing if the united states did not take over illegally the island of kahoolawe wouldn't have been bombed and we would have another island for us. since it got bombed we can't do anything on the island because of the bombs that never exploded if it wasn't for the navy we would have our island still yet and we wouldn't have to rely on the united states of america the land of the crooks. they illegally occupied us. if they ever decide to pull out and leave us stranded it would be over for us that's why i think we would be better of if we didn't get occupied illegally back in the day.
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With this case now behind him, time came to pay out the arranged $6.5 million, unfortunately another scandal would soon find Mr. Kilpatrick. After the investigation Kilpatrick and City Council became aware that Brown and Nelthrope possessed monumental evidence that would cause further harm if released. In order to keep this under wraps and prevent further scandals. City Council then agreed to increase the settlement to $8.5 million, so long as all text were surrendered and they were to never speak of them again. Years later following this case, Kym Worthy and the public because aware of the text messages and used the Freedom of information act to expose Kilpatrick.
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