Gplimpton Member Username: Gplimpton
Post Number: 286 Registered: 05-2007
| Posted on Thursday, January 29, 2009 - 7:43 pm: | |
Looks like a sneak peak of the FBI probe. http://www.wxyz.com/news/story /WILSON-INVESTIGATION-Pay-to-P lay-Lawsuit/YCXi9rr99kCUhm-voL OCJg.cspx |
Jmil Member Username: Jmil
Post Number: 320 Registered: 12-2003
| Posted on Thursday, January 29, 2009 - 7:54 pm: | |
Let me get this straight. This company is suing the city for not busting them for bribery? |
Gplimpton Member Username: Gplimpton
Post Number: 287 Registered: 05-2007
| Posted on Thursday, January 29, 2009 - 8:22 pm: | |
That seems to be their claim. It's interesting how not-very-subtle Team Kilpatrick was about these things, according to the claims. |
Rhymeswithrawk Member Username: Rhymeswithrawk
Post Number: 1653 Registered: 11-2005
| Posted on Thursday, January 29, 2009 - 10:02 pm: | |
By Bernard Kilpatrick, I take it you mean Relative of City Official A? |
Gplimpton Member Username: Gplimpton
Post Number: 288 Registered: 05-2007
| Posted on Thursday, January 29, 2009 - 10:32 pm: | |
You're not saying they're the same guy, are ya? lol. |
Lmichigan Member Username: Lmichigan
Post Number: 4049 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Thursday, January 29, 2009 - 10:37 pm: | |
It kind of reminds me of the gall Synagro displayed, today, in saying that it would not sue the city for cancelling the contract, when it's obvious that Synagro should be happy those involved in the probe don't absolutely break their company. There are no innocents in these pay-for-plays, no a one. |
Lilpup Member Username: Lilpup
Post Number: 5197 Registered: 06-2004
| Posted on Thursday, January 29, 2009 - 11:43 pm: | |
No surprise - Bernard blames it on those looking to 'destroy black leadership' http://www.wxyz.com/news/story /EXCLUSIVE-Bernard-Kilpatrick- Interview/Hnsby4dmJEmvVCyeoFiF -w.cspx |
Switchmanjim Member Username: Switchmanjim
Post Number: 20 Registered: 10-2008
| Posted on Friday, January 30, 2009 - 2:56 am: | |
"Who? Me?" Yes YOU! LOL |
Reddog289 Member Username: Reddog289
Post Number: 879 Registered: 08-2007
| Posted on Friday, January 30, 2009 - 3:57 am: | |
I wouldn,t say it was to "destroy Black leadership" just allegedly corrupt leadership all around.In my opinion it was some white crook dealing with Kwame, Kwame who really dissapointed the Reddog.May KWAME go to Texas and stay there. |
Lilpup Member Username: Lilpup
Post Number: 5198 Registered: 06-2004
| Posted on Friday, January 30, 2009 - 4:04 am: | |
From the sounds of it Kwame and his daddy might be going to Federal lockup and according to the law professor Gaddis talked to the other morning Federal sentences will be waaaaay longer than the slap KK got for his fibbing. Plus, there won't be any special treatment there - low security place but in with the general population and having to deal with mouthy guards and being told what to do. |
Daddeeo Member Username: Daddeeo
Post Number: 430 Registered: 09-2008
| Posted on Friday, January 30, 2009 - 8:21 am: | |
If that's Black Leadership, God help us all. I like Obama's much better. |
Hornist9 Member Username: Hornist9
Post Number: 195 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Friday, January 30, 2009 - 10:46 am: | |
Bernie's gonna play the race card express all the way to the federal pen in Milan! He talks about the Kilpatrick family serving the community for over thirty years...Look around the City of Detroit with all of the corruption, destruction and white flight, no flight by anyone that has a lick of sense to get out of a cesspool of shit. That kind of "leadership" is what the City of Detroit needs like one needs a boil on their ass. It will good the day the old man goes to jail, AND if Kwame manages to keep his ass out of Federal custody, and he moves to Texas. We can then sing, Thank God and Greyhound, They're gone. |
Maxdetroit Member Username: Maxdetroit
Post Number: 96 Registered: 08-2007
| Posted on Friday, January 30, 2009 - 4:09 pm: | |
What Hornist9 said. |
20043_stotter Member Username: 20043_stotter
Post Number: 753 Registered: 03-2007
| Posted on Saturday, January 31, 2009 - 8:36 am: | |
Steve Wilson is relentless and a hero to many. |
Dshanks Member Username: Dshanks
Post Number: 7 Registered: 12-2008
| Posted on Saturday, January 31, 2009 - 9:58 am: | |
I really wish everyone here would be more careful about what they say about the Kilpatrick family. Those who display disrespect during this period of exile will be dealt with most harshly upon return to power. C'mon people, smarten up. Just because you can't see The Machine doesn't mean it's not there. |
Jmil Member Username: Jmil
Post Number: 324 Registered: 12-2003
| Posted on Saturday, January 31, 2009 - 10:39 am: | |
LOL |
Dshanks Member Username: Dshanks
Post Number: 8 Registered: 12-2008
| Posted on Saturday, January 31, 2009 - 10:57 am: | |
You can LOL all you want. I'm serious as a heart attack. God help anyone who thinks they can say anything they want because the Mayor is not presently in office. Puhleese. Examples will be made of those who were irreverent during the incarceration. |
Lodgedodger Member Username: Lodgedodger
Post Number: 1393 Registered: 05-2008
| Posted on Saturday, January 31, 2009 - 11:27 am: | |
I will say whatever I please. ThugBoy and his relatives will not be returning to power. They may speak of such charges as some sort of hunt; but their time is over. They know what they face--many years in prison. After the Feds, the IRS will be stepping into the picture. |
Baselinepunk Member Username: Baselinepunk
Post Number: 75 Registered: 03-2007
| Posted on Saturday, January 31, 2009 - 12:12 pm: | |
"I really wish everyone here would be more careful about what they say about the Kilpatrick family. Those who display disrespect during this period of exile will be dealt with most harshly upon return to power. C'mon people, smarten up. Just because you can't see The Machine doesn't mean it's not there." I vote this post as "Most Moronic Post of the Year". Yes, I know it's only 1/31/09. |
Thejesus Member Username: Thejesus
Post Number: 3654 Registered: 06-2008
| Posted on Saturday, January 31, 2009 - 12:31 pm: | |
Dshanks: Are you suggesting the Kilpatricks would abuse the power of their elected office in order to retaliate against political opponents? Who'da thought? |
Lodgedodger Member Username: Lodgedodger
Post Number: 1394 Registered: 05-2008
| Posted on Saturday, January 31, 2009 - 12:46 pm: | |
The person is trying to intimidate posters with threats of a Kilpatrick "Machine". Thinly-veiled threats of a coming period of retribution to those who speak their minds freely mean nothing. This is a sorry way of attempting to attribute power to a group of individuals who have lost much power and money in the past months. I would remind you, Dshanks, some posters' identities may be known, yet what posters do for a living may not. Be smart, end the threats. |
Retroit Member Username: Retroit
Post Number: 857 Registered: 04-2008
| Posted on Saturday, January 31, 2009 - 1:29 pm: | |
Heil Kwame! Heil Kwame! Heil Kwame! |
Dshanks Member Username: Dshanks
Post Number: 11 Registered: 12-2008
| Posted on Saturday, January 31, 2009 - 2:11 pm: | |
"If you vote for him, many good things will happen. If you don't, he will crush you." -Borat I thought sarcasm was appreciated here. |
Lodgedodger Member Username: Lodgedodger
Post Number: 1395 Registered: 05-2008
| Posted on Saturday, January 31, 2009 - 3:03 pm: | |
Well, it SOUNDED as if it were a threat. ;-) Sorry about that, Dshanks. *hug* |
Tkshreve Member Username: Tkshreve
Post Number: 730 Registered: 07-2006
| Posted on Saturday, January 31, 2009 - 3:27 pm: | |
Dshanks- puhlease use sarcasm font next time. |
Baselinepunk Member Username: Baselinepunk
Post Number: 78 Registered: 03-2007
| Posted on Saturday, January 31, 2009 - 3:42 pm: | |
No shit! |
Softailrider Member Username: Softailrider
Post Number: 264 Registered: 02-2007
| Posted on Saturday, January 31, 2009 - 9:22 pm: | |
Don't ever forget, that guy was elected twice. There's still idiots out there who support him. If he's able to run again in a general election I wouldn't be suprised if he won again. |
Lmichigan Member Username: Lmichigan
Post Number: 4064 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Saturday, January 31, 2009 - 10:31 pm: | |
I'm often cynical of Detroiter's, myself, but if Kilpatrick is ever elected mayor of Detroit, again, I'll eat my hat. Hell, I'll eat a whole rack of them. I think believing Detroiters would elect him, again, after all of this (and all that keeps coming out) is overly cynical. Please remember, the worst thing he was accused of in his re-election bid was the rumored mansion party and living too highly and fastly. He's now been firmly convicted of being an absolutely pathological liar and crook. Detroiters would not elect that again, I feel very comfortable in saying. |
Gistok Member Username: Gistok
Post Number: 6082 Registered: 08-2004
| Posted on Saturday, January 31, 2009 - 10:41 pm: | |
Agreed Lmichigan... after all he just barely squeeked by with 52% during his 2nd election. |
Chrissy_snow Member Username: Chrissy_snow
Post Number: 410 Registered: 07-2008
| Posted on Sunday, February 01, 2009 - 8:54 am: | |
Lmichigan, there was actually a woman interviewed (thankfully, briefly) on the news the other night, who did say that if she could, she WOULD elect Kwame again. I know she's only one, but if she thinks this way, whose to say that others don't also? I was very shocked to here it come out of her mouth. They are talking about it in the comments section at John Bennett's blog. A lot of people saw it and we were all shocked! |
Bobl Member Username: Bobl
Post Number: 439 Registered: 07-2008
| Posted on Sunday, February 01, 2009 - 12:44 pm: | |
G: He got 52% of the votes that were counted. |
Gistok Member Username: Gistok
Post Number: 6085 Registered: 08-2004
| Posted on Sunday, February 01, 2009 - 2:00 pm: | |
LOL... thanks Bobl... I forgot we had Jackie Currie still in office as City Clerk at that time... And who knows how many of those 52% were alive?? |
Gnome Member Username: Gnome
Post Number: 2314 Registered: 08-2007
| Posted on Thursday, February 05, 2009 - 10:40 am: | |
In a related development:
quote:Federal prosecutors can use incriminating statements a Highland Park homeless shelter owner and his controller made in a tax-evasion case, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday. A three-member panel of the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati said IRS agents who were conducting a civil investigation may have been negligent in failing to refer the case to the agency's criminal division once they suspected Jon Rutherford and Judith Bugaiski of violating tax laws. But, the panel said, there was no evidence agents deliberately disregarded rules and misled the pair into making incriminating statements. .... http://www.freep.com/article/2 0090205/NEWS06/902050435 For those who don't know Jon Rutherford and Bernard Kilpatrick are old business cronies.
quote:The Rutherford company, which paid more than $100,000 to Kilpatrick's firm, was formed by Rutherford, former city planning and development director Henry Hagood, and two others, according to court records. Hagood, who left the company before Bernard Kilpatrick was hired, was identified in a 2006 city audit as having sold city-owned property to longtime friends. In many cases, Hagood first sold the properties to companies headed by Detroit businessman Rayford Jackson, the city audit says. http://www.detroitnews.com/app s/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/200807 03/METRO/807030392 Keep in mind that until last year BK was Chairman of the Wayne County Mental Health Board until he was forced to resign. From an article that is no longer on-line
quote:Wednesday, September 17, 2008 Bernard Kilpatrick resigns from mental-health board George Hunter / The Detroit News DETROIT -- Bernard Kilpatrick, father of Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, has resigned his post on the Detroit-Wayne County Community Mental Health Agency board. Bernard Kilpatrick made the announcement at Wednesday's board meeting, spokeswoman Teresa Blossom said. He could not be reached for comment. "He indicated he was retiring and looking forward to playing more golf," Blossom said. Kwame Kilpatrick appointed his father to the agency in April 2003. The elder Kilpatrick was voted chairman of in 2004. Normally, the chairman position is held for one year only, but Kilpatrick held on to the post because each year's vote was split 6-6, Blossom said. To sum up, BK can't be too happy that one of his cronies is facing some Federal Tax Time. Jon Rutherford of Metro Emergency Services Inc., just got some encouragement to start flipping on his old pal. |
Downtown_lady Member Username: Downtown_lady
Post Number: 556 Registered: 08-2008
| Posted on Thursday, February 05, 2009 - 11:29 am: | |
^^ And Rayford Jackson's name pops up again too. Very interesting. |