Judge sentences Kilpatrick 18 months to 5 years in prison

[Octafish]

Source: The Detroit Free Press

BY JIM SCHAEFER AND JOE SWICKARD
FREE PRESS STAFF WRITERS
Posted: 8:57 a.m. May 25, 2010 | Updated: 10:41 a.m. today

An audible gasp just erupted in the courtroom as Groner just sentenced Kilpatrick to a maximum of 18 months to five years in state prison.

Deputies rushed up to a row where Kilpatrick friends and relatives are sitting. They escorted one unidentified woman out.

"Your testimony in this court amounted to perjury," the judge told Kilpatrick. "Most compelling is that you lied to this court, continue to lie, after you pleaded guilty to lying....

"The initial 120 days incarceration did nothing to rehabilitate you."

After the gasp from the audience, Kilpatrick was ordered to sign papers. Some reporters saw his hands shaking. Groner asked Kilpatrick's lawyer, Schwartz, to assist the former mayor.

Read more: http://www.freep.com/article/20100525/NEWS01/100525015/1321/Judge-sentences-Kilpatrick-18-months-to-5-years-in-prison

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While he brought it on himself, I wouldn't wish this on anybody.

[tularetom]

1. On anybody? How about...

or

[Octafish]

5. Hate the sin. Love the sinner.

And I'd love to see those sinners in prison for the rest of their natural days. They earned their keep.

PS: I got the red X for the second image, but I can only imagine it's a he with a smirk on his wug.

[tularetom]

14. Actually it's a he with a porcine visage

This any better?

[louis-t]

2. It finally sank in. He wasn't going to get away with it again.

He really looked like he was in shock.

[old mark]

3. Good. He is a liar and had defrauded everyone connected with this business.

I love to see politicians in prison-there are too many who get sentenced and never seem to go away, many of them republicans.

I see this as a wake up call to Mr. Kilpatrick and maybe to other politicans all over the US.
Rec.
mark

[bluestateguy]

4. He's a thug who was rightfully removed from office

but I question the value of locking someone up for that long for a non-violent parole violation.

[saigon68]

6. "Probation is no longer an option," Groner said. "That ship has sailed."

"Probation is no longer an option," Groner said. "That ship has sailed."

May 25,2010 ---Judge David Groner as he sentenced former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick to 18 months to five years in state prison.

[T Wolf]

7. The "violence" that is done to people by the non-violent white collar criminal is far

more damaging than a mugging.

When we start punishing the elite criminals with the vigor we go after those without power, this discriminatory discrepancy will hopefully disappear.

[booksenkatz]

10. Nice post, T Wolf -- I can tell from some of the posts on this thread

that there are many people who really have no idea just how much damage this person left in his wake when he fled Detroit for his stately mansion in a luscious gated community in Southlake, Texas. Far more damage to thousands of lives, with longer lasting fallout than muggings and other neighborhood crimes, damned straight!

[Bozita]

8. He just got dumped from his cushy Compuware job

It was terrific pay for a no-show job.

http://www.freep.com/article/20100525/NEWS01/100525031/1321/Kilpatrick-fired-after-being-sent-to-prison-up-to-5-years

POSTED: 11:53 A.M. MAY 25, 2010
FORMER MAYOR LED OFF IN CUFFS
Kilpatrick fired after being sent to prison up to 5 years
BY JIM SCHAEFER, JOE SWICKARD AND BEN SCHMITT
FREE PRESS STAFF WRITERS


Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick lost his job today after being sentenced to prison for probation violation.

“Kwame Kilaptrick will be off the Compuware Corporation payroll at the end of the month," said a company statement. "We don’t have any choices. It’s an unfortunate situation, and we feel bad for his family, but our hands are tied.”

Earlier today, a frustrated Detroit judge ordered Kilpatrick to serve 18 months to five years in prison, declaring that Kilpatrick had lied while on probation and maliciously hid money that was supposed to go toward repaying the City of Detroit $1 million in restitution.

“Your testimony in this court amounted to perjury,” Wayne County Circuit Judge David Groner said, alluding to the ex-mayor’s explanations for how hundreds of thousands of dollars passed through his family’s bank accounts without being accounted for, or applied to, Kilpatrick’s restitution obligations.

more...

[Crabby Appleton]

9. Good, that steaming pile of shit belongs in prison. nt

[daggahead]

11. Kilpatrick Sentenced To 5 Years In Prison

Source: Associated Press

Detroit (AP) -- A Wayne County Judge has sentenced former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick to a maximum of 5 years in prison for a probation violation. He was led from the courtroom in handcuffs, following the ruling Tuesday.

Kilpatrick, sent to jail and forced to resign last year over racy text messages that showed he had lied under oath, has presented himself as a changed man since his release -- someone working to repair his damaged relationship with his family and pay the $1 million in restitution he owes the city.

Read more: http://www.wwj.com/Kilpatrick-Sentenced-To-5-Years-In-Prison/7295118

[Thrill]

12. Damn that judge tore him a new asshole

..

[Union Yes]

13. Only black politicians get prosecuted in AmeriKKKa. nt

[Crabby Appleton]

16. Don Siegelman & Duke Cunningham disagree. nt

[Scout]

15. good, that bastard deserves it n/t

[Mr. Sparkle]

17. Imagine if he tried to wire tap an Senators office, then he would get away scott free.

[Festivito]

18. Depends if it is still a way of protecting his wife.

Protecting his wife from prosecution from some connection to the Greene(sp?) murder, and perhaps himself, the investigation more convoluted since the damning information would be in Republican AG Cox's hands.

Oh, it's a mess.

[classysassy]

19. When if ever will sheriff joe

go to court?