By Allan Lengel Deadline Detroit DETROIT –– In a dramatic scene, a federal judge Monday afternoon ordered Kwame Kilpatrick and Bobby Ferguson off to jail pending their sentencing on public corruption charges. After the ruling deputy U.S. Marshals approached the men, who both took off their suit jackets. They were then put in handcuffs….
By Allan Lengel and Bill McGraw Deadline Detroit DETROIT — Kwame Kilpatrick, the youngest mayor in Detroit history, who became a devisive figure and ended up in trouble with the law time after time, was convicted by a Detroit federal jury today on numerous public corruption charges, along with his long-time friend Bobby Ferguson. His…
By Allan Lengel Deadline Detroit DETROIT — Federal prosecutor Mike Bullotta loaded up with plenty of ammunition and never stopped firing away Monday afternoon during a forceful closing argument in the Kwame Kilpatrick corruption trial. Standing in front of a lectern, before jurors, he said Kilpatrick turned the mayor’s office into “a private profit machine”…
By Allan Lengel Deadline Detroit DETROIT — Back in 1989 when I was reporter for The Detroit News I covered a federal trial involving Detroit 36th District Court Judge Leon Jenkins, who was accused of taking bribes to fix traffic tickets. The FBI had him on video taking cash bribes from Sam Dickow, who owned…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com DETROIT — After 4 1/2 months and about 80 witnesses, the prosecution in the federal trial of the ex-Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick rested Thursday morning, opening the door for the defense to begin calling witnesses in what’s expected to take less than two weeks. But things didn’t go so great for…
By Allan Lengel Deadline Detroit DETROIT — He was Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick’s good buddy, his confidante, his favorite city contractor. But Bobby Ferguson managed to turn off many in Kilpatrick’s inner circle. Contractors and city officials — including Victor Mercado, the head of the water department — complained about Ferguson. Even Kilpatrick’s sister, Ayanna, found…
By Allan Lengel Deadline Detroit DETROIT — In downtown Detroit, normally Monday through Friday, ex-Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick has his hands full as a defendant in one of the biggest public corruption trials in federal court in recent times. The case started in September and will certainly go into February, if not beyond. But…
By Allan Lengel Deadline Detroit DETROIT — On Thursday, Derrick Miller finally talked about the much anticipated payoff in the bathroom — something out of an episdoe of “The Sopranos.” Miller, a former close friend who was in Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick’s administration, testified at Kilpatrick’s federal trial that the then-mayor asked him to get…
