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...September 2007, the jury voted in favor of the officers and awarded them $6.5 million. Though he vowed to appeal the verdict, Kilpatrick eventually brokered a secret deal that awarded the officers $8.4 million in public money in exchange for their silence about the extramarital affair. Four months later, local media outlets used Michigan's Freedom of Information Act to obtain all relevant trial documents and, in January, the Detroit Free Press published excerpts from the more than 14,000 intimate text messages sent between Beatty and Kilpatrick via city-issued pagers. In March, the local county prosecutor charged Kilpatrick...
...misconduct scandal was hardly Kilpatrick's first brush with controversy. At 31, he was the youngest mayor in Detroit's history - alternately dubbed "King Kwame" and the nation's first "hip-hop mayor" - and seemed to embody the glamorous lifestyle of a paparazzi-starved star. He celebrated his inauguration in 2002 with "club crawls" of Detroit's most exclusive bars, later claiming the events were intended to motivate the city's disaffected youth. That he insisted on a 21-person security team drew ridicule from local residents and politicians, who were quick to note that even the mayor of Chicago...
...Since Kilpatrick's resignation, Detroit politics have been in turmoil. Federal authorities are investigating several members of the city council for alleged bribery involving a multimillion-dollar sewage contract, and a public shouting match between councilwoman Monica Conyers and interim mayor Kenneth V. Cockrel has become a running joke among residents...
...Kilpatrick, he may want to keep his lawyer on retainer. Last week, attorneys for the 14-year-old son of Tamara Greene, a 27-year-old exotic dancer who was killed in 2003, filed their witness list in a $150 million federal civil lawsuit against Kilpatrick and the city, alleging that the former mayor, his top aide and local police hindered the investigation into Greene's murder because of her rumored presence at a 2002 party at the mayor's Manoogian Mansion...
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