Ludacris: The Actor’s Studio
6 hours, 12 minutes ago | 23






Hip-Hop Mayor Cops Plea; Sentenced To Jail 
Published Friday, September 05, 2008 7:38 AM
Facebook ADD TO DEL.ICIO.US ADD TO DIGG ADD TO GOOGLE ADD TO TECHNORATI FAVORITES
By Ismael AbduSalaam

Ending months of legal wrangling, controversial politician Kwame Kilpatrick stepped down as mayor of Detroit yesterday (September 4) after pleading guilty to two counts of obstruction of justice.

 

The plea ends Kilpatrick’s fight to retain his political seat despite a highly publicized sex scandal with his chief of staff Christine Beatty, which resulted in over 10 counts of perjury charges and misappropriation of city funds.

 

Under the agreement, Kilpatrick will serve two four month concurrent jail sentences and pay the city of Detroit $1 million over a five year period.

 

Also, Kilpatrick, 38, will be barred from running for political office over his five year probation period, lose his law license, and forfeit his pension.

 

Following sentencing on October 28, Kilpatrick will immediately begin serving his prison term.

 

Once affectionately dubbed Detroit’s first “Hip-Hop Mayor” due to his flashy appearance, youth, and lavish spending, the guilty plea ends Kilpatrick’s run as Detroit’s youngest mayor.

 

Michigan governor Jennifer Granholm suspended a hearing earlier this week to complete Kilpatrick’s removal from office.

 

“Today this sad but historic story is coming to an end. It’s very important for us as a state and as a city to turn this page together,” Granholm told the Associated Press. “There is much word to do. It is my profound hope that we can now write a new history of this great but embattled city and that citizens of Detroit can begin the healing process to move forward.”

 

Upon completion of Kwame Kilpatrick’s resignation, his seat will be assumed by Kenneth Cockrel, Jr.


Comments

 

VEEAY said:

hmm oh well
September 5, 2008 9:29 AM
 

CEM3 said:

The New Marion Barry...
September 5, 2008 9:43 AM
 

Boss Up said:

Free Kwame
September 5, 2008 9:50 AM
 

Day4Day said:

i dont know wut that negro was thinking
September 5, 2008 9:58 AM
 

edit said:

"will be barred from running for political office over his five year probation period, lose his law license, and forfeit his pension."

God dayam!!


http://www.soundclick.com/dafurst

http:/www.thagame.info
September 5, 2008 10:06 AM
 

SagNasty989 said:

FREE MY NIGGA KWAME!!! I CHILLED WITH DUDE BEFO...HE REAL GOOD PEOPLES
September 5, 2008 10:15 AM
 

TheMotherFuckinTruth said:

What a man does with his penis is not the publics business elected official or not..

Why no jail time for Bill?
September 5, 2008 10:15 AM
 

Texas_Playa said:

Keep ya head up Kwame K!!!!!!
September 5, 2008 10:30 AM
 

HaitianSavvy said:

Man, that's tough...
September 5, 2008 10:34 AM
 

cantfademe1 said:

The Fucking DA was black. she just mad cause he didnt swing no THANG her way. lol

Kwame Kilpatrick EXCLUSIVE VIDEO...
HTTP://WWW.MYGHETTOTV.COM
September 5, 2008 10:34 AM
 

AshY-LarrY said:

i hate reading about this dude and his city more than an israeli hates an arab!

have a good time in yo' 10x10!

*tips tophat*
September 5, 2008 10:36 AM
 

Toonez said:

Keep ur head up son!
September 5, 2008 10:45 AM
 

ryda1000RR said:

Sad end of his chapter. And please, let's retire the moniker "Hip hop mayor". Just sounds stupid
September 5, 2008 10:50 AM
 

DetroitHolla said:

Good day for Detroit, we can finally move forward. Kwame was nothing but a joke for Detroit. I knew he was shadey ever since he ran for office...I didn't vote for him. Glad I didn't. No shadey politics here, Kwame was just a stupid nigga.

@TheMotherFuckinTruth

Its not his penis, its the fact that he lied about it.
September 5, 2008 11:09 AM
 

Hostyle70127 said:

SMH...It was over 4 him b4 it began which was even more of a reason 4 him 2 walk a str8 line ya heard me.He had 3 strikes against him goin n.(1)Young(2)Black(3)Affiliated wit hip hop(even though he ain't had shit 2 do wit it.)I think the 3rd strike was more of a stereotype but he embraced it but n the world of politics u have 2 maintain the traditional image of a politician & u can't play both sides of the fence ya dig.It's either there way or no way.
September 5, 2008 11:28 AM
 

risky $mith said:

This is bullshit! Dude slept with his aide as did Bill Clinton, dude 'misappropriated' funds' by having executive lunches and issuing contracts for personal gain relating to construction within the city's infrastructure. Sounds like common practice for a politician!!!!!!!. Then he goes to Ontario to arrange a a plan for a bridge connecting Detroit and Toronto across  Lake St. Claire, and when he returns they arrest him, strip search him and put him in a private cell, all because he breached the conditions of the court relating to him lying that he fucked his assistant!. Sounds to me like they are fearful of another black leader in office. Notice to all you 'thugs', go to school and study law and politics, we need new recruits, us old cats tangled ourselves in the garbage of bein tough and all it got us were some tattoos and scars. Dont let the media strangle your future by promoting rap acts that have no humanitarian message, the system is a set up. VOTE FOR CHANGE, VOTE OBAMA!
September 5, 2008 11:56 AM
 

risky $mith said:

@DetroitHolla
YOU'RE A BRAINWASHED MONKEY
September 5, 2008 11:57 AM
 

SPATE Magazine All Day said:

Hip hop mayor goes to jail. Thats crazy

http://www.spatemag.com
SPATE MAGAZINE WAS HERE

MaddMann Wins Most Original Artist At UMA's
http://www.imeem.com/maddmannmusic
http://www.maddmannfans.ning.com
http://www.myspace.com/madmanhiphop

MaddMann The Documentary Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/spatetv
September 5, 2008 12:18 PM
 

TheMotherFuckinTruth said:


DetroitHolla said:
Good day for Detroit, we can finally move forward. Kwame was nothing but a joke for Detroit. I knew he was shadey ever since he ran for office...I didn't vote for him. Glad I didn't. No shadey politics here, Kwame was just a stupid nigga.

@TheMotherFuckinTruth

Its not his penis, its the fact that he lied about it.

Bill Clinton basically did the same thing by saying he did not have sexual relations with Monica but head is a sex just oral..Point is why Bill didn't go to jail?


 
risky $mith said:
This is bullshit! Dude slept with his aide as did Bill Clinton, dude 'misappropriated' funds' by having executive lunches and issuing contracts for personal gain relating to construction within the city's infrastructure. Sounds like common practice for a politician!!!!!!!. Then he goes to Ontario to arrange a a plan for a bridge connecting Detroit and Toronto across  Lake St. Claire, and when he returns they arrest him, strip search him and put him in a private cell, all because he breached the conditions of the court relating to him lying that he fucked his assistant!. Sounds to me like they are fearful of another black leader in office. Notice to all you 'thugs', go to school and study law and politics, we need new recruits, us old cats tangled ourselves in the garbage of bein tough and all it got us were some tattoos and scars. Dont let the media strangle your future by promoting rap acts that have no humanitarian message, the system is a set up. VOTE FOR CHANGE, VOTE OBAMA!


I agree 100% also black lawyers are very rare we need way more black lawyers and we have way to many black rappers and actors black society is so backwards now and days. Everybody simply after the glory of materialistic wish's, pussy and instant gratification. Fame can never equal to the power of knowledge and rational thought. Its a much deeper stereotypical and physiological war against black society that exist in the shadows of America, but what goes on in the dark will always come out in the light. So there's always hope that black society will prosper and blossom the way a lot of us know it can.

Peep my logic
September 5, 2008 12:25 PM
 

Redd-i said:

Got damn B this shit hurt my heart, cause that was an intelligant black man.  Be he got arrogant wit it.  So it doesn't matter how smart you are if you do foolish things then you're still considered a fool.  Me and the homies was jokin like don't be supprised in about 4 months if you see that nigga in a video doing the Uuggh face like yayo.  He got like 3 strikes at once so he gotta be a rapper now cause they don't do background checks for rappers and you know he gone blow one before he go in and when he come out so he gone fail anydrug test....nah but real talk  Not much is gone change they still ain't gone fix the pot holes and schools still gone be shitty.  I seen a white dude the other day on myspace and he took a picture of himself standing in front of an abandoned building like that solidified his street cred or something.  That epidemic is still spreading around here.  These backwards ass dudes.  We trying to come up and they think it's cool for our city to be a shit whole,,prolly cause at the end of the day they can go back to they safe suburban home and sleep in peace.  Fuck this shit.  I hope my man Dave Bing get his shit together so he can run for office when this lil term is over cause that shrek looking dude ain't got be nothing but a tool.  I respect mr Bing he's done mad things to fix up old nieghborhoods.  He can't do it alone.  Call me conspiracy brother if you want but I told ya'll they been putting a squeeze on our economy and the money isn't trickling down to the right places where people can use it for the right reasons then they do the ol oval office shit on my manz to get him caught up.  Okay we all know he got grimey but just like Capone they get him caught up on some bullshit to take him down.  I look at it like these people know who they are and they will do that to any strong black man who is getting to big.  But you ya'll not getting the City back I don't care how many goofy ass skateboard kids swarm downtown on some "Oh yea I was in Detroit last night" type shit.  We just gotta go back to the drawing board. fuck this I got too much to say and shit won't get better over night so I'ma take my black ass to class.  have fun clowning our former mayor.  That would be a trip for the inmates in the county to pass that nigga during lunch when he decide to step out his lil holding cell for some air.  I don't think he'll have a problem though he'll be aiight.  He should occupy his time doing dishes or something cause they get more food after they clean up and shit ya digg.  Holla!!
September 5, 2008 12:54 PM
 

Redd-i said:

Got damn B this shit hurt my heart, cause that was an intelligant black man.  Be he got arrogant wit it.  So it doesn't matter how smart you are if you do foolish things then you're still considered a fool.  Me and the homies was jokin like don't be supprised in about 4 months if you see that nigga in a video doing the Uuggh face like yayo.  He got like 3 strikes at once so he gotta be a rapper now cause they don't do background checks for rappers and you know he gone blow one before he go in and when he come out so he gone fail anydrug test....nah but real talk  Not much is gone change they still ain't gone fix the pot holes and schools still gone be shitty.  I seen a white dude the other day on myspace and he took a picture of himself standing in front of an abandoned building like that solidified his street cred or something.  That epidemic is still spreading around here.  These backwards ass dudes.  We trying to come up and they think it's cool for our city to be a shit whole,,prolly cause at the end of the day they can go back to they safe suburban home and sleep in peace.  Fuck this shit.  I hope my man Dave Bing get his shit together so he can run for office when this lil term is over cause that shrek looking dude ain't got be nothing but a tool.  I respect mr Bing he's done mad things to fix up old nieghborhoods.  He can't do it alone.  Call me conspiracy brother if you want but I told ya'll they been putting a squeeze on our economy and the money isn't trickling down to the right places where people can use it for the right reasons then they do the ol oval office shit on my manz to get him caught up.  Okay we all know he got grimey but just like Capone they get him caught up on some bullshit to take him down.  I look at it like these people know who they are and they will do that to any strong black man who is getting to big.  But you ya'll not getting the City back I don't care how many goofy ass skateboard kids swarm downtown on some "Oh yea I was in Detroit last night" type shit.  We just gotta go back to the drawing board. fuck this I got too much to say and shit won't get better over night so I'ma take my black ass to class.  have fun clowning our former mayor.  That would be a trip for the inmates in the county to pass that nigga during lunch when he decide to step out his lil holding cell for some air.  I don't think he'll have a problem though he'll be aiight.  He should occupy his time doing dishes or something cause they get more food after they clean up and shit ya digg.  Holla!!

http://www.myspace.com/prswaggboyz8thwonderz
September 5, 2008 12:55 PM
 

Mr.GoodBrother said:

"Makes me sick to my stomach to see how far we've fallin' motherfucker.."-Bunk 'The Wire' Real Talk.Brooklyn Lives-Peace to God's Son.
September 5, 2008 1:13 PM
 

Token said:

He got off light...
September 5, 2008 1:18 PM
 

Detroit Goon said:

Kwame had a bitch killed, what are you niggas talkin bout. This shit really aint bout the fact that he fucked Christine Beety, its bout the fact that he had the stripped killed after attending a party that he denied having. I admit though, I liked Kwame at first, bit that nigga took advantage of too much shit. All the niggas that has been killed in my hood, I can name 20 niggas I grew up with that caught a head shot in the last 4 years, that shit is fucked up. Detroit doesnt give a fuck bout its residents, all they tryin to do is bring money into downtown, not the hoods.

My hood aint look like this in the 90's, now everything is tore up and abandoned. Sure, we all get money on East Warren, but at the same time its hard to know that a lot of niggas I came up with will never touch the streets again. Hopefully the next mayor will do somethin for the hoods.
September 5, 2008 1:44 PM
 

MRGODBYROAD said:

the only hip-hop mayor i rocognize in the OLD RAP CITY HOST THE MAYOR!!!!
September 5, 2008 1:50 PM
 

dades finest said:

dis dude wuz keepin it real n dis is wat dey give him fukin crackers
September 5, 2008 2:33 PM
 

DetroitHolla said:

I'm  a brainwashed monkey? wtf?

Anyway, I didn't say Bill Clinton shouldn't go to jail, he should have...just like Kwame lying ass.

@Detroit Goon

I know, that chick got killed a few blocks over on Greenlawn (I stay on Outerdrive)  but a lot of these dudes prolly don't know that...

Kwame is and has always been shady.
September 5, 2008 2:44 PM
 

Just_Rude said:

@Detriot Goon,

Yo i feel you when you say the hood is fucked up but to be real with you it's not the mayor fault that the hood is fucked up .. yeah they need to bring money in to all parts of the city not just down town but the people in the hood is the one's who are fucking shit up not the mayor... now if he had a stripper killed then he should fry for that .... but the 20 nigga in your hood that caught a head shot that may not have been the mayor's doing ... (don't know cause i wasn't involved) but bottom line is .. THE HOOD IS FUCKED UP BECAUSE OF MOST OF THE PEOPLE THAT LIVED THERE

Just keeping it 100%
September 5, 2008 2:49 PM
 

SoFreshSoTee83 said:

Knew it was comin for a long long time now hes always gettin caught dirty.....FlintTown here we know all about Kwame he cool but not to smart about bein keepin shit on the DL
September 5, 2008 3:35 PM
 

ZUBU said:

Damn, didn't know Kwame was having bitches bodied and shit. Fuck this is probably just Karma catching up with him then. I just thought that the Christine Beatty chick was one expensive piece of pussy. Shit million dollar pussy, shit ain't no pussy that fucking good. I tell pees all the time about texting it is a bad or worse than the phone. Every text message is saved; I tell people don't say anything in a text that you wouldn't say openly in public.
September 5, 2008 3:44 PM
 

hypestyle said:

For all those who feel "well, the white man gets away with A, B, C, why does the black man have to go to jail, etc.?", there's a reason for that, and an advantage that white folk politicians have that black politicians do not.

They're WHITE!!!!!  They have that advantage of cultural sympathy when some wrongdoing goes down; black folks have always had to step up to be better in their behavior-- or at least better in covering it up..

Detroit is an 85% black city, so when it comes to city/taxpayer funds being rerouted for personal use, city-owned credit cards being maxed out on dinners and gifts to entertain mistresses as well as potential business partners/investors, but only slowly paid on, Vehicles being bought for his wife (but registered as 'police dept. property'), and a whistleblower lawsuit that costs the city over $8 million (where two internal affairs cops got fired for stumbling close to the truth of the affair-- his executive police/bodyguards had been charging extremely high amounts of overtime to their payroll), this is not being done to "get over on whitey"-- this is getting over on your black consituents!!

Kilpatrick has had the highest number of relatives and people already known to be close friends getting either lucrative city contracts for various projects (construction, etc.) or are city employees in some capacity..

Police response is still very slow, plenty of neighborhoods are in bad shape, the public schools are looking at less than 100,000 students overall this year, but still overcrowded classes, barely any books to go around, kids have to ask the teacher for toilet paper, etc.; it's still a huge mess here, and no amount of downtown refurbishing can fix that--

He liked to party like Puffy and live ultra-lavish, but also had a problem with being upfront about this-- the spoils of power were simply a given to him, and when certain stuff was exposed like the credit cards, the Navigator, and finally the text messages, his thing seemed to be deny relentlessly and if all else fails bring up God so the church folk will circle the wagons and he can flex the "strong black man targeted by the System" card..
September 5, 2008 3:54 PM
 

Tek617 said:

thats what he get. take your fukn position more seriously. black folks always get in a position of power and think that's an excuse to try to get away with what another white man did. Guess what, this is your black man wake up call...we should be setting examples of stellar performance and setting the bar for success, instead we trying to get away with as much sht as possible, then cry foul when we get caught. good riddance, i just hope Obama can finally show our people how to LEAD, not how to fuk up.
September 5, 2008 4:06 PM
 

REDBENZ0 said:

This is a BIG SETBACK. Wake up people we are moving into uncharted political territory and NO ONE is safe.
September 5, 2008 5:43 PM
 

risky $mith said:

The media will always highlight the bad facts for an individual that the system doesn't need or want. The fact he's corrupt because the opposing parties slung mud at duke an u ate it up.

"We've never been in a situation like this before. Where you can say anything, do anything, have no facts, no research, no nothing and you can launch a hate-driven bigoted assault on a family. I humbly ask members of the council, I humbly ask the business community, I humbly ask the religious community, I humbly ask the brothers and sisters of the city of Detroit - I humbly ask that we say 'no more' together. I love this city with every part of my being. I will continue to stay focused on building the next Detroit. God Bless you, Detroit. I love you." —Kwame M. Kilpatrick, 2008 Detroit State of the City Address

The stripper that was murdered was axed to make it look like there was this huge conspiracy into the alleged 'Party' that never took place. Kilpatrick is a Mayor not a Governor or a Senator. Theres no fucking way he can 'run' a city, or the police department. He was almost jacked from running for a second term but the public believed in him. I voted for him and I bet none of yall did but your so fucking quick to say you want change. He's a Christian, mans from the area and fo sho he was making moves to rehabilitate the inner city. You have to understand the power is limited at that stage of government. All in all this was a fucking assault on his mother and her credibility as she digs her way into Congress. The two of them together would have been a massive force in government. Those who go along with the media slandering  Kilpatrick, are sad puppets to the newspaper. You probably believe Michale Jackson is a kid touchin homo. Continue letting the system manipulate your intuition and believe what you will, regardless of your position, your race comes first. We lost a huge advantage in the game from a powerful suit pulling strings from every angle, ensuring Tiger Woods, I mean OBAMA wont have any young black blood behind him. If you are going to believe that Kilpatrick was no good, I guess you believe rising stars Ron Brown and Mickey Leland simply died from plane crashes? While still in office! You mutherfuckers either keep your lips shut and seriously take a look at the system. Im out, big ups Bagley, peace an chicken grease!
September 5, 2008 6:08 PM
 

tha clear said:

It's so cold in the D

Kwame has himself to blame for this. He should have used a prepaid phone for his jump-off.
September 5, 2008 10:46 PM
 

MissDallasTx214 said:

lmao @ tha clear
September 5, 2008 11:22 PM
 

louisgrech said:

lol theres more to this idiot than a stupid sex scandal
September 7, 2008 5:46 PM
 

louisgrech said:

way worse stuff... i feel like this artical is biased
September 7, 2008 5:46 PM
Anonymous comments are disabled. Sign up or Login
News Archives
 >