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Kwame Malik Kilpatrick (born June 8, 1970) is an American former politician and convicted felon who served as the 72nd mayor of Detroit from 2002 to 2008. A member of the Democratic Party , he previously represented the 9th district in the Michigan House of Representatives from 1997 to 2002.
The text messages appear to contradict testimony that Kilpatrick and Beatty gave at a trial in 2007 in regards to whether they had an affair and had fired an officer for investigating the mayor's behavior. The City of Detroit settled the lawsuit for $8.4 million based on the recommendation of Kilpatrick and the City of Detroit law department. [1]
Christine Rowland Beatty (born May 1970) served as the Chief of Staff from 2002 to 2008 to Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick.. In January 2008, Beatty resigned amid an emerging political sex scandal and criminal charges of perjury related to a whistleblower trial for lying under oath about her extramarital affair with Kilpatrick.
In 2013, Kwame Kilpatrick was convicted of numerous fraud charges stemming from his time as the mayor of Detroit. He was granted clemency in 2021. Memphis nonprofit taps ex-Detroit mayor ...
Kwame Kilpatrick urges his audience to support Donald Trump for president during a meeting at Lelli's Inn on the Green in Farmington Hills on June 24, 2024.
Kwame Kilpatrick poses for a photo with Free Press "On Guard" columnist M.L. Elrick and Republican activist Anthony Gusumano on June 24, 2024 after urging a gathering at Lelli's Inn on the Green ...
The Kilpatrick and Beatty text-messaging scandal was a political sex scandal in the United States emerging from a whistleblower lawsuit involving former Detroit Police chief Gary Brown, Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and his former chief of staff and paramour Christine Beatty.
Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick speaks during the Oakland County Republican Partyââ¬â¢s Lincoln Day Dinner at the Suburban Collection Showcase in Novi on Wednesday, August 21, 2024.