Embattled Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, was hit with 6 charges on Monday, including perjury, and obstruction of justice stemming from allegations of misconduct while in office.
Kilpatrick, who is married with 3 children, became the subject of intense public scrutiny after sexually explicit text messages contradicted his sworn denials of an affair with his former Chief of Staff Christine Beatty, 37.
Beatty is charged with conspiracy to obstruct justice, obstruction of justice, two counts of perjury in a court proceeding and two counts of perjury other than in a court proceeding.
Perjury is a felony, punishable by up to 15 years in prison. But for Kilpatrick, a conviction also would mean his immediate expulsion from office. The Detroit City Charter calls for any elected official convicted of a felony while in office to be removed.
Kilpatrick has said he would not resign and last week said he expects to be vindicated when all aspects of the scandal are made public.
Good. Get his scadalous butt!! I’m tired of our elected officials thinking it’s okay to skirt the truth and break the law. Get ’em!!!
I am sick of that dumb look he always has on his face!
He looks drunk and sneaky…
Why do our black folks always have to act a fool when we get into office. He should have known they were going to be watching everything that he did. Plus now I am hearing some story about a party he threw at the mayor’s mansion that had strippers there, his wife came home and beat one of the stripper’s down and later the stripper was found dead. He is a big mess and Detroit is already going through a lot with all the job losses and bad ecomony and this n**** is just making them look even worse.
i’m glad. the fact that he’s been going around preaching like nothing took place and the media is doing a modern day lynching on his is absurd…and as usually the wife is standing on his side like a dormat. i don’t get it. if mine cheats on me…i’m holding a press conference the same day announcing my d*mn divorce.
Thats GOOD they got HIM! One of my bestfriends is from Detroit she said that he is a street hustler for REAL when he was running for office, he would go into the loca stripp clubs to campaign. I mean this dude is a straight THUG, how he go into office I dont know!!
mizzdallas Says:
how he go into office I dont know!!
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People treating politics and our elections like a dag on 9th grade popularity contest!!
trina@atl Says:
Why do our black folks always have to act a fool when we get into office.
I co-sign to the 100th degree.Guess we know who won’t be running for president anytime soon.lol
Kwame is a certified Hood Figga!
That fool is SO FAR detached from reality, he made need professional help. You get caught IN COURT and then play dumb as hell to the world? His wife may have forgiven his ass but the voters and people of his city haven’t. Maybe he thought it would be swept under the rug??? He cost the city THOUSANDS of dollars in addition to the embarrassment and made them look like fools. Even though this is 2008, some things will slide but a crooked black man in top office can’t skate through unseen. He should have gone to service with TI and Tiny.
Sandra, I’m trying my best to act right but you can’t put up pics like that because you know I want to say he has the Mr. Ed action going on in the mouth region. wwwwiiillllbbbuuurr. Dammit, I just can’t help myself.
@ hellava10 Says:
That fool is SO FAR detached from reality, he made need professional help..
YES HE DOES!! I think that Kwame suffers from megalomania..a mental disease that causes someone to have Delusions of Grandeur!
Megalomania:
Behavior characterized by delusional fantasies of wealth, power, genius, or omnipotence – often generally termed as delusions of grandeur. The word is a collaboration of the word “mania” meaning madness and the Greek “megalo” meaning “very large”, “great”, or “exaggerated”, thus combining to denote an obsession with, either in the form of irrational perceived need for or preoccupation with in one’s own estimation having and/or obtaining, grandiosity and extravagance (especially in the form of great fame and popularity, material wealth, social influence or political power, or more than one or even all of the aforesaid) and accompanying complete desirous and bombastic abandon; a common symptom if not the key diagnostic feature of megalomania.
It is often symptomatic of manic or paranoid disorders
See alsp:
Arrogance
Hubris
Malignant narcissism
Narcissism (psychology)
Narcissistic personality disorder
Superiority complex
Victory disease
I live in Detroit and him and his mistress just turned themselves in they got booked and fingerprinted, and their mugshots are being blasted all over the news.
He is such a disgrace to the City, and it is truly embarrasing to see a young, black, man given an opportunity to run a major City…take advantage of his power, and now he is going to jail!!Everyone wants him to resign and he is so arrogant that he will not resign and is going to continue to hold us hostage! I don’t know how we are suppose to trust this idiot ot run the City, manage the City’s money, if he can’t manage his personal business! I was so embarrassed to see this on CNN…live!!
Whatever is done in the dark always comes to the light!!
If anyone wants to see all the details of this story..please go to freep.com…this story is sosooooo SCANDOLOUS!! A must read!
I was so glad to hear this news. I forgave Kwame when he made his apology, but his later statements critisizing the media for lynching him made me realize this niggra is crazy. He has to go or he will continue to abuse his power. I am now convinced he will never learn as long as he is allowed to keep his job.
Awww, Christine looks so cute and pitiful in her mug shot. First she loses her job while Kwame gets to keep his and now she gets criminal charges. Poor baby.
this was long overdue…he’s was way too cocky and just downright stupid…
I wonder if Christine will be offered a deal…seems unlikely? Looks like they have all of the goods on those two. She can probably kiss that hard earned law degree goodbye? What a genuine mess. Kwame should do the honorable thing, stop thinking about himself, resign, and let the council president take lead.
How can he lead a city with such distractions of a case?. Looks like he did a fairly poor job while trying to juggle alleged indiscretions, so what makes him think he can manage the city, while trying to keep his butt out of prison?
…..and he actually looks like he’s smirking
blkdiamonn thanks for the freep link…curious, are those photos from city ID badges or mugshot photos…because there is a stark contrast between the two facial expressions…he has this: callous, I’m going to beat this smirk, and she has this: what the &*(&! did I get myself into? All of this for a *(^%?
I agree with all of ya’ll…this nucca makes me sick! Trying to look all contrite! It’s shyt like this that makes a mockery out of the brothers and sisters that’s trying to do the right thing in positions of power! Definitely not a good look for him or her…they’re both done! I hope it was worth it!
Its sad to see a black man as intelligent as Kwame, who had SO much promise end up like this. Next time a young black man wants to run for a political office people may think of Kwame Kilpatrick and think that the next man would mess up the same way. Kwame was not ready for the keys to a city. Im dissapointed in him and hope that they find out what happend to Tamara Greene (the stripper who came up dead after dancing for him at the mayors mansion who the first lady is said to have hit with a bat)…
@ 2unruly
they are actual mugshots from today…they were arraigned today and had to turn themselves in to the county sheriff!
he is definitely smirking…he reminds me of suge knight somehow. i just wanna see if he keeps smirking like that when he sittin in the pen
“i just wanna see if he keeps smirking like that when he sittin in the pen”
Be careful with what you say…lol, I’m sure he still has PEOPLE out there…lol, I’m not in Detroit. Thanks again for that link. I will bookmark this. New drama to follow, and it will be interesting to see the final result. Hopefully, it won’t take 5 years to go to trial like you know who.
Something about his vibe just makes me want to take a shower. Beatty should have been a smarted woman and just told the truth on the stand and been done. Unless his weenie is dipped in golden dust, it can’t be worth all this drama. For her sake, I hope it was good.
Just goes to show how low your self esteem can get to fool with this man and all of his strippers and hookers.
I’m having a hard time feeling sorry for either one of them. It’s about damn time they were charged!
I feel so sorry for Detroit. The city just gets worse and worse.
Man can we say CAUGHT UP???
I am sorry but he looks like he has been smoking a lot of weed. I don’t know about you all but if I ever get caught doing something and I know I can tell to get out of it, I am singing like a bird. Jail looks like a scary place. Even my momma would be going down before I attempt to go to jail lol. But on another note let’s not forget that black people seem to like forgiving hence Marion Barry being re-elected after lying and smoking crack. We will see how this pans out.
forgot to add for all you Wire fans he is probably thinking like Clay Davis “If I go down we all go down uh uh Clay ain’t taking this one alone” (lol)
Re: Shunda
I’m wire fan too! Yeah we all going down…. Shiiiiiiiiiiiiit!
What man wouldn’t lie about cheating?
@Coop EXACTLY!!!! So, I guess any man who cheats and gets caught will be charged with perjury because they will ALL lie and say “not me” I didnt cheat!!! LOL!!
This perjury charge thing has run amuck this year!!